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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
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Presents one of Shakespeare's earliest plays about the mistaken identity of two sets of twins. This volume includes the full text of the play, plus an introduction to the play, a scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and current productions, photographs of key RSC productions, and an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career and chronology of his plays.
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English
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Jack Worthington is an upstanding gentleman in Victorian society. He just has one secret-he tells everyone that he has a brother named Earnest, when, in reality, Earnest is his alter ego. This allows him a certain duality; he can go out and party as Earnest, but have a sterling reputation as Jack. However, he must merge the two when Jack discovers that his lover, Gwendolyn, will only marry a man named Earnest. Meanwhile, Algernon, a family friend,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An 18-year old girl is mistaken for the widow of a millionaire's son. Homeless, penniless and pregnant, the girl reluctantly accepts the generosity of the dead man's grieving mother and finds herself falling in love with her late husband's twin brother.
5) Hero
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears into the night ... leaving only his shoe behind
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
Description
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world's deadliest assassin--known only as The Man from Toronto--run into each other at a holiday rental.
8) Freezer
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Robert Saunders, a New York City mechanic who is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there, and how he'll survive, will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing eight million, and a wounded cop who may hold the key it all. The temperature is dropping. The fear is growing.
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Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003
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2 sound discs (88 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus where, unbeknownst to them, their twins are living"--Container
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Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003
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2 sound discs (149 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Rosalind, daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, is exiled from the court by her wicked uncle. Disguising herself as a young man and accompanied by her cousin Celia and their loyal fool Touchstone, she takes refuge in the Forest of Arden. In the forest Rosalind meets young Orlando with whom she is in love, but her male disguise complicates matters, expecially when Rosalind finds she has unwittingly attracted the shepherdess Phebe"--Container
12) Anything goes
Publisher
Trafalgar Releasing, MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love - proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 111 min.) : DVD video, Recorded DVD, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Every princess needs a Prince Charming. But lovely Princess Veronica didn't expect hers to be bellhop Jimmy Dobson. Hedy Lamarr is the princess, Robert Walker is the bellhop and June Allyson is a bedridden former dancer who secretly loves Jimmy in this frothy fairy tale set in prewar Manhattan's version of a palace: an elegant hotel complete with royal grounds (Central Park, of course). The fun begins when Jimmy mistakes Veronica for a new maid....
16) His double life
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World-famous artist Priam Farrell (Young) is a dead-ringer for his devoted valet, Henry Leek. When Leek suddenly takes ill and dies, a mix-up leads to Farrell being mistaken for his departed servant. Failing to convince anyone of his true identity, Farrell resigns himself to the loss of his former life, until he is spotted in a hotel by lovely Alice (Gish). Despite his denials, Alice is sure that he is Henry Leek, the man with whom she had been romantically...
17) The big Lebowski
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
18) Double identity
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An American physician working for Doctors Beyond Borders is mistakenly identified as a secret agent by the Russian mob. He becomes entangled in a deadly web of lies and murder
19) She's the man
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viola becomes furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has just cut the girl's soccer team. So furious, in fact, that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to major complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in...
20) Red Rock west
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
An unemployed Texan walks into a tavern in Red Rock, Wyoming, and is mistaken for a professional hit-man
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