Richard Burton
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
ix, 693 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsim., photos. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The personal diaries of the renowned actor and glamorous celebrity describe his life from 1939 to 1983 and his struggles with his weight, drinking, and jealousy when other men looked at the love of his life, Elizabeth Taylor.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
5) Becket
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
Language
English
Description
When Philip Ashley's much-loved (and rich) cousin Ambrose dies, he is convinced that Ambrose was murdered by his new wife Rachel to inherit his wealth. But when he meets Rachel and falls in love with her, he knows that his suspicions must have been unfounded. But were they, or is Rachel just trying to use Philip to get at the estate Ambrose left to him instead of to her? And will she murder him next?
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1967
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After a fellow spy is murdered, an agent who is working as a defected spy trying to get inside information realizes that he is just as expendable as his fellow agent.
9) Cleopatra
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
10) Circle of two
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic tale of the platonic relationship between a sixty-year-old artist and his sixteen-year-old model.
11) Under milk wood
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of several colorful characters living in a small Welsh town. Throughout, a background voice (native Welshman Richard Burton), narrates the day-in-the-life action.
12) 1984
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alexander the Great, Greek hero and world-conqueror. Alexander is a man torn by conflict between his teacher, Aristotle, his warrior father and his own ambition.
16) The V.I.P.s
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elite passengers waiting for London-to-U.S. flights get fogged in, and have to deal with their problems rather than run from them.
17) The comedians
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
19) The robe
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the inspiring story of the robe that Jesus wore on the cross and the Roman centurion, Marcellus Gallio, who wins the robe in a gambling match at the foot of the cross.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.