Richard Fleischer
2) Trapped
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young Lloyd Bridges stars as hardboiled hood Tris Stewart, a convicted counterfeiter doing time in the Atlanta pen. When a fresh batch of fake bills starts circulating, treasury agents bail Stewart out to help lead them to the maker of the fake plates. Although long sought by the Film Noir Foundation, TRAPPED was believed to have suffered the unfortunate fate of many B-films of the era—oblivion. But when a private collector deposited a 35mm...
3) Mandingo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, MANDINGO takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?], c1954
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
5) Mr. Majestyk
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-con and Vietnam vet, Mr. Majestyk, whose efforts to run a straight business seem thwarted at every turn-- a town tough harasses him for employment of Hispanic migrant workers on his farm, the local police jail him on a false charge, and a Mafia hitman destroys his crop for crossing him during a jailbreak-- finally reaches the end of his fuse. With rifle in hand and his girlfriend at the wheel of his pickup, Majestyk goes after the syndicate assassin....
6) Dr. Dolittle
Language
English
Description
Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged, fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (612 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Treasure island: Long John Silver and a cabin boy match wits in this outstanding Disney tale.
20,000 leagues under the sea: A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
The incredible journey:...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Shout Factory under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people who have come into contact with him and the house begin to meet with a shocking fate. Is it coincidence or is this house really the gateway to hell?"--Container.
10) Compulsion
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case.
11) Crossed swords
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this adventure film adapted from Mark Twain's classic The Prince and the Pauper, a poor commoner and the Prince of Wales switch clothing as a practical joke, but are unexpectedly separated and end up living each other's lives.
13) 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...
14) The jazz singer
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
25th anniversary, widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Jewish cantor's son defies his father to pursue a career in popular music.
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...
16) Fantastic voyage
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen. [Special ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
17) The Vikings
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King. Twenty years later, the Vikings under are still raiding...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film follows a rube, played by Henry Morgan, on a journey as he uses his recently obtained inheritance to take a trip to 1910's New York with his wife and sister-in-law. Along the way, he encounters numerous eccentric characters including a drunken jockey, a sleaze ball millionaire and a devious stage actor, all scheming to court his sister-in-law in order to gain a slice of the inheritance.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Scorpion King: Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains...
20) Made In Paris
Author
Language
English
Description
"Have you come here to destroy all fashion designers in Paris, or is it just me?" Songs, fashion, Frenchmen and the fabulous Ann-Margret abound in this classic musical Made in Paris. When department store fashion buyer Irene Chase (Edie Adams) decides to get married, her boss sends assistant Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) to Paris for the fashion showings. There, famed couturier Marc Fontaine (Louis Jourdan) breaks into her hotel room-believing it to...