Arthur Hiller
1) The Hospital
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1971.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Paddy Chayefsky’s magnificently dark comedy, directed by Arthur Hiller, stars George C. Scott as the deeply depressed Head of Medicine at a teaching hospital where, over one long night, everything falls apart. The doc’s suicide is interrupted only by the arrival of a seductive young woman (Diana Rigg), the daughter of a crazed patient (Barnard Hughes); she gives the doc something to live for and helps him get to the bottom of the bizarre deaths...
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
c2003, c1974
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given to passionate and capricious ravings on a variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, dismissed by those close to him, is confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli agents and brought to trial in Israel for crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration camp?...
3) The in-laws
Series
Criterion collection volume 823
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dentist Sheldon Kornpett is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo. Nonetheless, Vince calls on Sheldon and convinces him to go with him on a series of adventures, claiming all the while that he is a CIA agent, and that what he is doing is in national interest. Sheldon follows Vince to a South American country ruled by a very odd man, General Garcia, who talks to his hand....
4) Love story
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and death.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Playwright Travalian has a Broadway play in rehearsal. His wife leaves him, leaving behind four children from her previous marriages plus his own son for him to raise alone. Add to that his leading actress wants to move in with him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005, 1964
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cynical American naval officer (Garner) is assigned a lovely young English widow (Andrews) as his driver in this comedy set in London during World War II. Despite their differences they fall in love, but his superiors seem to have nasty plans for him involving D-day!
10) Man of la mancha
Series
Language
English
Description
Man of La Mancha: This musical version is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of the author of the book, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures.
The Fantasticks: Follows the scheming of two neighboring parents who try to spark a romance between their children by faking a feud. Loosely based on the novel Les romanesques by Edmond Rostand.
12) Out-of-towners
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1969
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Ohio couple experience the trip from hell while in New York, when everything that could go wrong does.
Publisher
Distributed by TGG Direct
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hospital (1971, 102 min.): A caustic comedy about a besieged doctor in a bureaucratic mega-hospital who meets a free-spirit just in time.
Bank shot (1974, 83 min.): A visionary thief doesn't just want to rob a bank--he plans to steal it whole.
14) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1979 version: Dentist Sheldon Kornpett is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo. Nonetheless, Vince calls on Sheldon and convinces him to go with him on a series of adventures, claiming all the while that he is a CIA agent, and that what he is doing is in national interest. 2003 version: When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very...
15) Making love
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married couple has to come to terms when the husband finds himself falling in love with another man.
16) Carpool
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Miller, a career-first ad executive whose priorities need realignment, and five children on their way to school, are taken hostage by happy-go-luckless Franklin Laszlo, whose bungled attempt to get cash for his floundering carnival puts him on the lam and in the driver's seat of Miller's minivan.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Edition
Remastered edition, widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 105 min.) : DVD video, Recorded DVD, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Texas oilman heads to Wall Street to raise cash and meets a blonde stock analyst with her own angle.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A classic tale of high adventure, written by Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling. Embark on a virtual journey to the exotic land of colonial India during a time when, for one dangerous moment, the entire fate of the British throne rested upon the shoulders of a young boy named Kim, who must go undercover as a spy to stop a war. Restored an in Color!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a young princess who lives in a castle on a wild and lonely mountain. One day she discovers a stairway leading to a labyrinth of unused passages with closed doors behind which lie dungeons, goblins and a world of mysteries. Based on the novel by British author George MacDonald. Restored and in Color!
