Barbara Stanwyck
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Too late for tears: A man just found $60,000 and his wife insists that he keep it rather than turn it in to the cops. Wanting the money for herself, she kills her husband then reports him missing. The man who cheated himself: Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police officer, is in love with socialite Lois Frazer. Ed seems to find himself stuck between a rock and a hard place when Lois decides to kill her husband and Ed's brother is assigned...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Experience the breathtaking dangers and delights of ancient Rome in "The sign of the cross"; trek through a perilous jungle with "Four frightened people"; thrill to the passion, suspense and intrigue of "Cleopatra"; journey back in time with the glorious story of "The crusades"; and see how the West was really won in the explosive "Union Pacific."
3) Titanic
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband is engrossed, a woman flees to America along with her children on the R.M.S. Titanic. Learning of her plan her husband buys a steerage ticket in the hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate steps in, the family faces an unimaginable challenge and the possibility of separation from each other forever.
4) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart."--Container.
Publisher
Hal Roach Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his...
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
7) The furies
Series
Criterion collection volume 435
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Patterns: When Fred Staples is recruited to work for a major corporation in New York he comes to realize that he was meant to replace an ailing executive. Will he choose the moral high road or seize the biggest opportunity of his life?
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: Ambition, desire, fear and obsession govern the life of socialite Martha Ivers. An old friend comes to town and threatens to expose Martha's past misdeeds.
Anna Karenina: Based...
