Richard Brooks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chance Wayne returns to his southern home with faded, alcoholic movie star Alexandra Del Lago. He hopes to capitalize on her fame but is regarded by others as a cheap hustler who is not welcome back in town, especially by the father of his previous girlfriend.
6) Elmer Gantry
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
7) Key Largo
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.
Last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes an American...
10) Bite the bullet
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives off investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devastating tragedy.
12) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
Publisher
PC Treasures, Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: Spencer Tracy is about to become a grandfather. If he thought he wasn't ready for a son-in-law, he really isn't ready for phase two.
The last time I saw Paris: M-G-M threw all their tremendous assets behind this tale of love, romance and jealousy in Post-War France. Shot on location in Paris, Liz sparkles as a free-spirit who falls for Johnson, a reporter she meets on the chaotic night of the Allied liberation. Their marriage...
14) Lord Jim
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Conrad's saga of an idealistic merchant marine officer who disgraces himself when he abandons ship in the Far East. A tale of both cowardice and redemption.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, a callous Russian officer; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexey; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in his own way.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name, but he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding...
19) Act of violence
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Act of violence: Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street: Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is found on a lonely...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Aggie Hurley is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane is going to have a lavish wedding even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza.