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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1946.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 DVD (approximately 4 hours) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dark alibi: Chan must act quickly to stop the execution of an innocent Death Row inmate.
Dangerous money: Number Two Son and Chattanooga Brown aim to help Chan investigate a murder on a cruise to Samoa.
The trap: In Toler's last appearance as Chan, he investigates the killings of showgirls in Malibu.
The Chinese ring: In Winters' debut as Chan, a Chinese princess is murdered in Chan's house.
3) Greed
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
2 video cassettes (239 min.) : sound, black and white with tinted sequences ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of three World War One era Californians whose friendship is destroyed by avarice after one wins a lottery jackpot. Includes a brief spoken prologue in color with b&w sequences.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (454 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (594 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thrill of a romance: A war hero takes swimming lessons in order to woo the instructor. Fiesta: A woman disguises herself as a matador to fill in for her brother. This time for keeps: A veteran falls in love with a swimmer. Pagan love song: A love story set on Tahiti. Million dollar mermaid: Dramatizes the life of Annette Kellerman. Easy to love: A water skier falls in love with her agent.
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...
9) Lassie
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (379 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lassie come home (89 min.): A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master.
Son of Lassie (100 min.): On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures.
Courage of Lassie (93 min.): Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood and wartime battlefield...
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.
11) A foreign affair
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
12) Sidney Poitier
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (404 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015, 1964.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The night walker: A wealthy widow tries to discover the cause of recurring dreams about her lost husband.
Dark intruder: Set in San Francisco in 1890. Brett Kingsford, a playboy and expert in the occult, discovers that Robert Vandenburg's Siamese twin is committing murders in order to take possession of Robert's soul.
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
FILMS, CINEMA. Who doesn't enjoy three of life's most enjoyable social activities-eating, drinking, and movie-watching? Movie Night Menus is a food-cocktail-and-film pairing guide inspired by the classics we love perfect for date night or to entertain in style. The book highlights thirty crowd-pleasing films from the 1930s through the '80s paired with signature drinks and dishes that appear in, or are inspired by, each film's setting and stars-all...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Christmas films" come in many shapes and sizes and exist across many genres. Some, like It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story, are perennials, while others, such as Die Hard, have only gradually become yuletide favorites. But they all have one thing in common: they use themes evoked by the holiday period - nostalgia, joy, togetherness, dysfunction, commercialism, or cynicism - as a force in their storytelling. Turner Classic Movies: Christmas...
16) Must-see sci-fi
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made.From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre. They are movies that embed themselves in the depths...
Author
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
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
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