Allyn Joslyn
Language
English
Description
Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered ed., full screen presentation.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task...
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
"An opportunist (Brian Donlevy) turns corruption into a promising political career but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest."
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retires to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square."--Plot summary from www.imdb.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 806
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
8) Moonrise
Series
Criterion collection volume 921
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's...
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