Joseph Cotten
Author
Publisher
Mercury House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
235 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cotten takes us from his Tidewater, Virginia, beginnings and his life as a Miami "potato salad tycoon" to his first break on the New York stage. We learn about his warm, abiding association with the flamboyant Orson Welles, from their first meeting at a radio audition (where Welles sets a wastebasket on fire) to their involvement in the Mercury Theatre and their work together in the screen classics Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The...
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Series
Studio classic volume 32
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A southern belle finds out the truth about her husband's murder when her cousin reopens the case.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An artist meets a schoolgirl in Central Park who has a mysterious air about her. What follows is an unforgettable love story.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saboteur : Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final...
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
7) Niagara
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (216 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language
English
Description
A lavish, epic western that retells the true story of Wyoming’s infamous Johnson County War – a brutal, late 19th century conflict during which wealthy cattlemen, backed by the U.S. government, hired mercenaries to murder 125 immigrant settlers.
10) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w, ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm., folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic as her husband Tobias is equivocating and guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, and friends who are terrified of being alone for unknown reasons.
14) The third man
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
15) Soylent green
Publisher
Warner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen letterbox ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A horrorific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy, where the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Traces the story of Jim Jones and the People's Temple from its roots in Indianapolis in 1953 to the Nov. 16, 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
17) The third man
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his friend's Czech girlfriend. Includes commentary, interviews,...
18) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Two disc special edition. Standard version. Newly remastered picture and sound.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (232 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The battle over Citizen Kane: Examines the lives of William Randolph Hearst, the powerful newspaper magnate, and director/actor Orson Welles as they clashed over Welles first film: "Citizen Kane". Hearst's reaction upon learning about the film, which portrayed him unfavorably, was to work to suppress it and destroy Welles. Major movie theater chains refused to show "Citizen Kane", and Welles' masterpiece virtually disappeared for almost 25 years....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
20) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.