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Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and the great reads that inspired them. Some films, like Clueless -- Amy Heckerling's interpretation of Jane Austen's Emma -- diverge wildly from the original source material, while others, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, shift the point of view to craft a different experience within the same story. Author Kristen Lopez explores just...
Publisher
Kino Classics, [2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (313 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The Adventures of Arséne Lupin: Lupin engages in a series of daring criminal schemes. His activities arouse the interest of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who offers Lupin a challenge: to steal a jewel of great value from a secret hiding place. Should Lupin accept the wager?
Signed, Arséne Lupin: At the end of the Great War, Lupin resumes his mischievous lifestyle with zeal. The theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the...
3) Human desire
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Korean War vet Jeff Warren returns to his job as a railroad engineer and quickly succumbs to his boss's wife, Vicki Buckley. Thus begins a tangled web of suspicion, sex, and murder involving Vicki and her brutish husband Carl.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (195 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A ruthless racketeer pursues a socialite who is not interested in him and ruins her life; a Chinatown doctor and her father help protect their neighbors against gangsters; a cabaret singer searches for her father who disappeared in the Malaysian jungle with stolen government funds.
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tommy Tyler, an easy-going Caribbean sailor, is searching for sunken treasure with his tomboy daughter, Spring. Things get complicated in their houseboat when a young, wealthy lawyer sets sail with them in search of excitement, riches and maybe even love.
6) Harper
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
7) Gorky Park
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park their faces and fingertips removed detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching the highest political levels.
8) Heat
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-mercenary Nick Escalante isn't a violent man by nature. He₂s just good at it. And when things get very, very bad, he's naturally at his best. Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action. When a gangster's son brutally beats an old flame, it ignites a tightly wound thriller that pits Nick against the mob and culminates in a vicious cat-and-mouse climax.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.
10) Tonight or never
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cold, passionless Hungarian opera singer is told by her music teacher she will never be a great singer until she experiences love. She was also told by the teacher is, for her to win the notoriety, success, and fame she desires, she must perform at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York. Though the singer is engaged to Count Albert von Gronac, she does not love him and finds herself enamored with a mysterious man she sees walking on the...
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joel McCrea plays veteran outlaw Wes McQueen who escapes from jail and hopes to pull off one last big train robbery. McQueen doesn't care for his new partners -- except perhaps Colorado Carson (Virginia Mayo), a dance-hall girl who may be the only person who genuinely cares about his well-being. McQueen, meanwhile, also has eyes for Julie Ann (Dorothy Malone), who is newly arrived from the east and setting up a new farm with her father. With a $10,000...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (258 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kansas raiders: "Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes"--imdb.com.
Sierra: "A tomboy frontier lawyer finds an outlaw and his son hiding out from a false murder charge"--imdb.com.
Destry: "A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances,...
16) The witches
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (66 min.) : silent, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A meddling aristocratic mother tries to stop her son from eloping with a grocer's daughter. So Mrs. De Peyster dons a working class disguise and goes on a mission with her maid to track down the lovers and block their illicit vows. But instead she crosses paths with a charismatic thief named Pyecroft who has plans to rob De Peyster's home. All of them end up at her home on 13 Washington Square where all of their lies hilariously come to light.
19) Moontide
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker, gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon awakening, he is convinced by his mercenary 'pal' Tiny that he has killed a man. Despairing at the thought of having committed a murder, not to mention being blackmailed for the rest of his life by the treacherous Tiny, Bobo is able to find a few fleeting moments of happiness with Anna, a suicidal young girl whom he has saved from a watery grave.
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