Darryl Francis Zanuck
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Praetorius, believing in the power of the mind to heal as well as traditional medical therapies, is challenged to defend his unorthodox philosophy before the medical board and must also convince his new wife that he married her for love, not out of pity for her unwed, pregnant, suicidal state.
Series
Criterion collection volume 320
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Classic biographical telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln, from his youth to his death.
6) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
8) Wilson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Woodrow Wilson moves from his position as the head of Princeton to the Governorship of New Jersey to the White House, where he eventually uses all of his efforts to end World War I.
10) Brigham Young
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Mormon pioneers' long wagon train west to the Salt Lake Valley, led by Brigham Young (Jagger). A subplot involves a trail scout (Power) who falls in love with a non-Mormon (Darnell) on the way.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 19th century, the illegitimate son of a British aristocrat, Benjamin Blake, is forced into servitude by a wicked uncle. As a rebellious young man, Benjamin falls for a beautiful aristocrat and is beaten as punishment. Fleeing his tyrannical uncle, Benjamin stows away on a ship and lands on an idyllic South Pacific island. There he romances an exotic native beauty and earns a fortune diving for pearls with a fellow shipmate. But Benjamin's...
13) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 1
Language
English
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
14) Boomerang!
Series
Fox film noir volume 16
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief is under enormous pressure to find his murderer. When a massive manhunt produces a suspect, the state's attorney is determined to convict only if it is the right person despite political pressures.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen's devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as Richard comes to realize that his wife is shockingly possessive and may be capable of destroying anyone who comes between them. A singular Hollywood masterpiece...
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Language
English
Description
Magazine writer Schuyler 'Phil' Green, a widower who has just arrived with his mother and young son in New York, is assigned the task of writing an expose of anti-Semitism. As he searches for a new angle on the topic, he decides to pass as a Jew for several months, which causes no end of trouble for his ailing mother and young son. It also puts his new society girlfriend on the spot, since despite all her intellectual convictions, she cannot quite...
18) The longest day
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view - the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites of France.
19) Blood and sand
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble.
20) Les misérables
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Valert.
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