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1) Two women
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Seeking escape from city bombing, an Italian mother and daughter travel war-torn Italy during World War II trying to survive near-starvation, rape by wandering soldiers and other horrors of war.
Language
English
Description
This romantic drama is set during post-WWII high society Paris. Writer and war veteran Charles Wills returns to the Left Bank to reminisce about his life after the liberation of the City of Lights. There he meets wealthy American eccentric James Ellswirth and his daughters, Marian and the beautiful but frivolous Helen. Although Marion loves Charles, he marries Helen instead, and the two begin a family. Their happiness soon spirals into tragedy when...
Language
English
Description
Hazel Flagg is the small-town girl who mistakenly believes she's dying of radium poisoning. Sensing a great human interest story, exploitative journalist Wally Cook brings Hazel to New York City and turns her into a media darling, but Wally's strategy takes a sudden turn when he starts having feelings for the vulnerable Hazel.
4) Quicksand
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A law-abiding citizen "borrows" a few dollars to go out on a date. As fast as quicksand, his first minor criminal act turns into a tragedy.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retires to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square."--Plot summary from www.imdb.com
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limehouse district of London, this is the story of Lucy, a 15-year-old living with her abusive prizefighter father, Battling Burrows. Driven from her home, she finds love and protection in the home of a gentle Chinese man. Together they begin to discover the joys that life has denied both of them. Then Lucy's father finds her, brutally beats her protector, takes her back home, and, in his rage, kills her. The grief stricken Chinese man...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events leading up to and immediately fter the Civil War. Ben Cameron, a brave yet disillusioned Confederate soldier, creates a covert group of impassioned Southerners called the Ku Klux Klan as an answer to the supposed problem of the rise and rule of blacks and carpetbaggers. Bent on revenge, Ben leads his KKK followers in a war to suppress the black threat to white society, ultimately restoring "order" to his beloved South.
11) Happy go lovely
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this musical comedy, penniless dancer Janet Jones emerges from a limousine at the Edinburgh Festival, and is mistaken for the girlfriend of the car's owner. Suddenly a Broadway director wants her in his next musical in order to get financing from her non-existent "millionaire boyfriend."
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Treasure hunters accidentally awaken the giant mythical beast Barugon, causing a rampage that decimates a modern city. ... Prehistoric monster Gamera returns to Japan, igniting a devastating battle between the two fearsome creatures. ... As earth's scientists fail to halt the onslaught, desperate citizens turn to the tribal folklore of Barugon's island in the hopes of saving civilization. ... the second installment in the Gamera series and the first...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman seeks the help of Holmes and Watson when the mysterious benefactor who has been sending her a pearl each year since her father disappeared wants to meet her. Involved are a priceless hoard of Indian treasure and a murderer, whose trademark is "the sign of four."
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When chemical manufacturer Simon Dayton is murdered after asking for detective James Lee Wong's help, Wong investigates this and the subsequent murders of two business partners. In doing so, he uncovers an international spy ring hoping to steal the formula for a poison gas being developed by Dayton's company.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Astronomers discover an extraterrestrial satellite orbiting in space, pounding Earth's surface with thousands of meteorites. The meteors turn out to be flying saucers, transporting bizarre alien creatures who carry with them a desperate message for the world's leaders"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Andy Hardy returns home to Carvel after serving in the Army during World War II, ready to get on with his life. He has two plans: complete a college education at his parents' alma mater and marry the girl of his dreams. However, as Andy soon rediscovers, the course of true love never runs smooth.
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