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(0)Charles Bickford
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gangsters when she's left as an IOU for a debt.
Now and Forever: Shirley Temple stars as a little rich girl whose father, a jewel thief, comes to claim her from his late wife's relatives.
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
What do you do with a pitcher whose dominance has helped his team claim two world-championship banners? If the pitcher is burly lefty George Herman Ruth, you banish him from the mound, put a bat in his hand and watch him clout one record-setting home run after another. William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder and Sultan of Swat in a movie that mixes fact, fiction and more fiction in a way that makes it a...
11) The big country
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
12) Mr. Lucky
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
14) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
15) Johnny Belinda
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl" --IMDb.
16) The plainsman
Series
Pub. Date
©2004, ©1937.
Language
English
Description
This western interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
17) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection volume 383
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, it builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom and asks the question of who society's real brutes are.
18) Command decision
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Features television plays from 1953-1958 and includes Marty (1953); Patterns (1955); No Time for Sergeants (1955); A Wind From the South (1955); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956); Bang the Drum Slowly (1956); The Comedian (1957); and Days of Wine and Roses (1958).
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