James Villiers
1) Pygmalion
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Michael Dobbs' best-selling novel about a man who schemes and backstabs his way to the top until he is standing on a pile of broken promises, betrayals, and the bodies of those who oppose him.
3) The nanny
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blamed for the drowning death of his little sister, ten-year-old Joey Fane has finally returned home after being institutionalized for two years. Placed once again under the care of his devoted nanny, Joey is soon accused of trying to poison his own mother. But when he swears it was the nanny who committed the crimes, his tormented pleas lead some to wonder: is Joey the disturbed killer everyone thinks he is, or is this dear old nanny hiding some...
4) Asylum
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about the revenge of a murdered wife, a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A twisted suspenseful romance set during the French Revolution. While men, women, and children fall under the merciless blade of the guillotine, one foppish gentleman, alias the Scarlet Pimpernel, bravely rescues aristocrats from the jaws of death. In the midst of his rescue, he meets and falls passinately in love with Marguerite, France's most celebrated actress.
6) Eva
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Dual-movie edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (222 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welsh writer Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker) seems to have it all, style, an international best-seller, an apartment in Rome, a gorgeous fiancée, but he remains bitter. He meets his existential match in ennui in the mod seductress Eve.
7) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12 pages : black and white photographs ; 16 cm)
Language
English
Description
Carol, a young manicurist in London, is driven mad by ghosts and terrified above all by sex, but her fears turn into hysteria and she grows violent.
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 362 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages)
Language
English
Description
The merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's comedy in which a young merchant attempts to extricate himself from an onerous contract with a vicious shylock.
The millionairess: Shaw's comedy in which a wealthy heiress seeks romance with an Egyptian doctor who only tends to the poor.
Talking heads: Bed among the lentils: A dramatic monologue by a jaded, alcoholic wife of a country vicar.
Suddenly last summer: A wealthy Southern matriarch tries to influence...
9) Hammer films
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (544 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stop me before I kill!: A man's wife comes up missing after the man confesses to having homicidal thoughts about her.
Cash on demand: A scheming crook kidnaps the wife and child of a bank manager.
The snorkel: A young girl can't convince anyone her stepfather's a killer.
Maniac: A man finds himself in the middle of a strange mother/daughter threesome.
Never take candy from a stranger: A small town is terrorized by an elderly child molester.
These...