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41) The great moment
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 6
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This stirring biopic follows the fascinating life of W.T.G. Morton (Joel McCrea), a 19th century dentist who successfully develops the first anesthesia."
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 7
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A quirky soldier (Eddie Bracken) gets an unexpected homecoming when a group of uproarious Marines decides to 'make' a hero out of the comic misfit."
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (155 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Show Off is about a gullible woman who marries a pompous, incessantly boasting man against his family's wishes. The Plastic Age is about a fast living college girl during Prohibition.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter, a mild-mannered mouse, imagines himself as a number of daredevil heroes. One of Walter's dreams becomes a reality when he gets involved with a beautiful blonde and becomes the target of a gang of jewel thieves who believe he has their loot.
45) Stanleyville
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dissatisfied woman abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Explores the relationships of a gay movie director, who has a transsexual brother (now a woman living with her daughter) and two lovers, one of whom murders the other and takes the director's sister (brother) hostage in order to see the director one more time.
49) About Hope
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man who has been searching for his true love his whole life finally meets "Mrs. Right," a friend-of-the-family with a wonderful young daughter. But when a wealthy and beautiful woman offers him a glimpse into an extravagant lifestyle (if only he'll give up his morals in return) his family and his faith will guide him to learn that it's not only true love that makes us whole.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (306 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, Keaton signed a contract with Earle W. Hammons' Educational Pictures, which specialized in comedy short subjects. This move was a return to his roots, crafting a stream of two-reel comedies in rapid succession, as he had done in the early 1920s, when he first refined his cinematic craft. Contains all sixteen films made at Educational Pictures.
52) Lover come back
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adman and adwomen battle over a fake account and wind up in bed together.
Author
Series
Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to make it on television and having been evicted from their apartment, Moe, Larry and Curly Joe find rooms in a gloomy mansion owned by an eccentric scientist, who has invented a rocket wanted by Martians planning to destroy the Earth.
55) Stuck on you
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.
56) All of me
Series
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roger Cobb is a swinging bachelor, a lawyer, and a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwaters is a terminally ill spinster who is given another chance at life if her soul can be transported into another woman. However, the guru goofs, and Edwina's soul takes over the right side of Roger.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Ultimate 3-disc edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (390 min.) : silent, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
All of Buster Keaton's classic silent short films in one collection, digitally remastered in high definition.
58) Baby done
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zoe freaks out when she falls pregnant to her long-term boyfriend Tim. Tim embraces the idea of parenthood, while Zoe rushes away from it.
59) Ruthless people
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
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