Elsa Lanchester
2) Rembrandt
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009], ©1936
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with Rembrandt in his prime, the film tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression following the death of his wife."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. The lawyer defending him is in ill health and his only hope for acquittal is the testimony of the accused's wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 36 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Hotshot crime magazine editor George Stroud inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress"--Container.
Publisher
Dreamline
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (282 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Road to Bali: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are up to their old tricks when they meet a beautiful young princess who is in trouble
My favorite brunette: In this spoof of detective stories, baby photographer Hope substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery
Inspector General: A corrupt village wrongly suspects the idiot assistant of a medicine-show operator of being the emperor's omnipotent inspector general in disguise
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing, and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home. Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife, Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his...
Author
Language
English
Description
The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own the museum or if Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years.
13) Mary Poppins
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Home Video]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beloved classic shines like never before with an all-new digital restoration. Winner of five Academy Awards, including best actress (Julie Andrews), best song (Chim Chim Cher-ee), and best visual effects. Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game, and every day into a 'Jolly...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic adventure of a young orphan sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle and his crippled son. Led by a strong will and a stubborn temperament, Mary Lennox discovers the existence of a secret garden, the history of which slowly reveals the mystery of her uncle and his son's embittered lives. Eventually, the beloved garden becomes the only hope for their happiness and restoration from the haunting grip of the...
15) Die Laughing
Author
Language
English
Description
Robby Benson stars as a young San Francisco cab driver with dreams ofbecoming a rock star. Instead he's the prime suspect in the murder of abrilliant scientist, chased by the police and the KGB and the unwillingbaby-sitter to a chimpanzee that carries the formula for globalthermonuclear destruction. It certainly isn't shaping up do be a boringday, and he'll have stories to tell his grandchildren if he doesn't DieLaughing.
Author
Language
English
Description
Screen legends Tyrone Power ("The Razor's Edge"), Marlene Dietrich ("Judgment at Nuremberg") and Charles Laughton ("The Night of the Hunter") star in this "brilliantly made courtroom drama" (Film Daily) that left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. Directed by Billy Wilder ("Avanti!"), scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz ("One Touch of Venus"), and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this splendid, one-of-a-kind...
17) Les misérables
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (216 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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
18) Naughty Marietta
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The musical that launched a legendary team. With their splendid voices, matinee-idol looks, vivacity (she) and stoutheartedness (he), Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were America's Singing Sweethearts, "a true team, mixing the chemistry that permits one to accept disguised princesses, dream melodies and beautiful doom" (Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical). Naughty Marietta is their first film together, a blithe tale of a French princess who arrives...