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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies
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English
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During a campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associates with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
LOVE AFFAIR (1932) -- Here he is enterprising, modest and occasionally perplexed as a working class aircraft engineer who is pursued and eventually seduced by a wealthy but jaded socialite (Dorothy Mackaill). Typical of the Pre-Code era, the film is notable for scenes of sexual suggestiveness and moments of refreshingly frank dialogue courtesy of Jo Swerling and Ursula Parrott.
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949) -- A tense courtroom drama with undercurrents...
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English
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A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors.
Adventurer Mike O'Hara rescues beautiful Elsa Bannister from attackers in Central Park. Elsa induces Mike to sign up as a sailor on the yacht belonging to her husband, crippled millionaire criminal lawyer Arthur Bannister. In the West Indies, the cruise party is joined by Bannister's law partner,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
(My name is Julia Ross) "An unemployed London secretary is hired as a live-in assistant for an elderly woman but soon finds herself in a nightmarish situation"--Container.
(The mob) "A police detective ... goes undercover as a dock worker in New Orleans in order to investigate the criminal activities of a waterfront racket"--Container.
(Drive a crooked road) "Los Angeles mechanic and race car enthusiast Eddie Shannon is seduced by a gangster's girlfriend...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Glass key: "Ed Beaumont ... is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig ..., a slightly corrupt politician who is accused of murder"--Container.
Phantom lady: "Carol Richman ... attempts to clear her boss ... of a murder he did not commit"--Container.
Blue dahlia: "A WWII veteran ... is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ten cents a dance: Barbara, a dance hall girl, marries Eddie, who turns out to be a compulsive gambler. Barbara turns to a former suitor and dance hall owner, Bradley Carlton, for help.
Arizona: Bob Denton, a West Point football star, discovers that his commanding officer is married to his former girlfriend, a woman bent on revenge after he jilted her.
Three wise girls: An innocent small-town girl trades her soda fountain job for a modeling job...
9) Phantom lady
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
10) Midnight lace
Series
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this woman-in-peril suspense film, set in London, the sanity of a newlywed heiress comes into question when, after a number of unwitnessed near-fatal accidents and life-threatening phone calls, she claims to be the target of a stalker. As time passes and her reports of more calls and a visit from a mysterious stranger nobody else sees are met with skepticism by everybody, the woman begins to unravel and becomes increasingly paranoid, suspecting...
11) A foreign affair
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English
Formats
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"Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
So dark the night: "A complicated story of a Parisian detective ... who falls in love while on vacation, only to see the woman murdered"--Container.
Johnny O'Clock: "Johnny O'Clock ... is a junior partner in a posh casino with Guido Marchettis ... but is senior in the eyes of Nelle, Guido's wife and Johnny's ex. This love triangle leads to a web of complications, leaving Police Inspector Koch ... to unravel the threads of deceit and a murdered casino...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lynn Markham, a recent widow, moves into a beach house where the former owner fell to her death from the balcony. What seemed like an accident turns to suspicion of murder as Lynn finds herself drawn into a torrid affair with a handsome beachcomber who may be harboring a sinister secret.
16) The gilded lily
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
"Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America."--Set container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
No more orchids: Lombard plays a spoiled heiress who falls in love with a struggling lawyer, despite her arranged marriage to a European prince.
Brief moment: The class-conscious formula is reversed when a nightclub singer tries to convince her rich playboy fiancé to abandon his partygoing lifestyle in favor of a respectable livelihood.
Lady by choice: Lombard plays a fan dancer who adopts a feisty older woman with a police record.
Series
Publisher
Turner Classics Movies
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"[This three-disc set] includes 38 theatrical cartoons released from 1948 to 1959. Originally distributed by Columbia Pictures, the cartoon shorts produced by UPA (United Productions of America) were revolutionary, adopting the contemporary graphics of Modern design and offering non-traditional, provocative storytelling. Giving the animators at Disney, MGM and Warner Bros. a run for their money, UPA earned six nominations and three Academy Awards,...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Whirlpool: "Buck Rankin, the owner of a disreputable traveling carnival, is sentenced to prison for twenty years on a manslaughter charge. Not wanting his wife to waste her life waiting for him, he forges a note from the warden to her, claiming he died in an escape attempt. Upon his release years later, Rankin reinvents himself as a nightclub owner but his past life comes back to haunt him"--Container.
Most precious thing in life: "Ellen, an elderly...
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