John Garfield
Author
Language
English
Description
John Garfield is Johnny, a tough NYC boxer who becomes champ. He attends a drunken party where a reporter is murdered. The killer himself dies in a flaming auto wreck, but not before he successfully shifts the blame to Johnny. He flees the city & hides out at a boy's camp out west, populated by The Dead End Kids. All seems ok until a detective (Claude Rains) who was on the murder case, happens by.
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1939.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After boxing manager Doc Woods accidentally kills a reporter, he frames his champion fighter, Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield), who changes his identity and flees to Arizona. There Johnnie takes refuge at a ranch run by a kindly older woman known as Grandma (May Robson), who has also opened her home to delinquents the Dead End Kids. With the help of Peggy (Gloria Dickson), Johnnie and the Kids struggle to overcome their distrust, just as Detective...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1969.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this chilling drama, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) is a wealthy and frustrated spinster who invites a homeless boy into her apartment, offering him living quarters. As she becomes completely obsessed with him, he rejects her amorous advances, leading her to take him as a prisoner in her home. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"Full of the drifting long shots, slow zooms, and overlapping dialogue that would help to characterise...
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
5) Humoresque
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A racketeer's lawyer finds that his boss has found a way to bankrupt New York's numbers banks but gets wedged between the numbers racket and a new prosecutor's anti-crime campaign.
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Full Screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charley has become the middleweight champion of the world by winning a "fixed" fight. In his devious climb to the top, Charley has become hard and arrogant, and has estranged both his mother and the girl he loves.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
10) The sea wolf
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tyrannical captain of a freighter would rather 'reign in Hell than serve in Heaven' in this classic drama.
12) Four daughters
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
Remastered ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This story of music professor Adam Lemp, his four daughters and the men that love them aims straight at the heart and scores an unerring hit. Poignant, laced with laughter and flawlessly acted, it catches viewers up in the quiet but powerful lives of ordinary people"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he₂ll admit.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
24 videodiscs : sd., b&w (some col.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of 100 mystery films with intrigue and suspense. Combining its popular Mystery and Dark Crimes 50 Movie Packs, Mill Creek Entertainment returns you to a time when the movies were black and white but the dark characters that inhabited them displayed every shade of grey. Deception, betrayal, corruption, larceny and murder stir the landscape in this collection of amoral tales that thrilled bygone audiences and are back to delight a new generation....
