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Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (322 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
House of horrors: A hideous giant of a man is used as an instrument of evil by a mad scientist.
Murders in the zoo: A maniacal hunter and collector of wild animals uses them to dispose of rivals and enemies.
The mad doctor of Market Street: An unhinged scientist flees the San Francisco police and continues his bizarre experiments on a remote tropical island.
The mad ghoul: A doctor's experiments with nerve gas turn his assistant into a grave-robbing...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thunder on the hill: Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
Taza, son of Cochise: The two sons of Apache leader Cochise (Jeff Chandler) have conflicting views of the white men who trepass on their land; Taza (Rock Hudson)...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (331 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sierra: Ring and his father Jeff live in a hidden valley in the mountains where they capture and tame wild horses. When Ring comes to the rescue of Riley Martin, a woman lawyer who has lost her way on the trail, it leads to a romance between them but also opens an investigation into Jeff's shadowy past and accusations of murder.
Ride clear of Diablo: When Clay O'Mara goes after rustlers who murdered his father and brother, he first arrests, then...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search of a missing fellow employee. The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 7 hours) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
(My name is Julia Ross) "An unemployed London secretary is hired as a live-in assistant for an elderly woman but soon finds herself in a nightmarish situation"--Container.
(The mob) "A police detective ... goes undercover as a dock worker in New Orleans in order to investigate the criminal activities of a waterfront racket"--Container.
(Drive a crooked road) "Los Angeles mechanic and race car enthusiast Eddie Shannon is seduced by a gangster's girlfriend...
Series
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The president of a bankrupt European country tries to revive its fortunes by entering its top athletes in the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
9) Phantom lady
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home to find his wife strangled and to be arrested for her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
10) Woman in hiding
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newlywed Deborah Chandler Clark discovers on her honeymoon that her husband may have murdered her father for business reasons and now wants to kill her. After surviving an attempt on her life, she disappears, moving to another town and changing her name. She meets a drifter and ex-GI named Keith Ramsey who may know more than he's letting on.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 7 hours, 30 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
So dark the night: "A complicated story of a Parisian detective ... who falls in love while on vacation, only to see the woman murdered"--Container.
Johnny O'Clock: "Johnny O'Clock ... is a junior partner is a posh casino with Guido Marchettis ... but is senior in the eyes of Nelle, Guido's wife and Johnny's ex. This love triangle leads to a web of complications, leaving Police Inspector Koch ... to unravel the threads of deceit and a murdered casino...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 258 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gilded lily: Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America.
The bride comes home: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine.
Family...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Virginian: In Medicine Bow, a newly arrived eastern schoolteacher is courted by two cowpokes but their courtship is interrupted by violent incidents involving local cattle rustlers.
Cattle Drive: A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
Border River: A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (365 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Woman in hiding: After her father is killed in an accident, mill heiress Deborah Chandler marries the plant manager, Selden Clark, but his motives are suspicious.
Female on the beach: Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.
The unguarded moment: A beautiful teacher is protective of a high school boy who sexually harassed her, and later he becomes a murder suspect.
The...
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