Ida Lupino
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollywood superstar Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) has it all...but no way out. When he tries to quit show business, his studio boss (Rod Steiger) blackmails him with a secret that could ruin him. A starlet (Shelley Winters) also knows the secret, and when she threatens to talk, Hoff plans murder. Now, Charlie is trapped and could lose everything...including his soul!
2) High Sierra
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy Earle (Bogart) barely has a chance to savor his freedom before learning that his release from prison has been arranged in exchange for his help in a high-stakes jewelry heist. Earle knows the caper will most likely end badly for him--and for the brash young thugs in on the job--but he has no choice. Even though Earle finds love with a hardened woman (Ida Lupino) living on the criminal fringe and uses his share of the loot to help a needy young...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family in the waning days of World War II, Petey expects a merry Christmas. Instead she gets a tangled web of mobsters, cheating wives, war-traumatized vets and the kind of love that grabs hold fast and goes wrong faster"--Container...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (424 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boxed set of four Humphrey Bogart films, including 2-disc special editions of Casablanca and The treasure of the Sierra Madre, along with the gangster drama High Sierra, and They drive by night, a tale of two brothers trying to make it as independent truckers.
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller ... is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by [a] psychopathic serial killer ... [A] fascinating character-study.
7) Road house
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roadhouse owner Jefty Morgan hires a singer from Chicago to sing in his club. He falls for her but she has eyes for Pete, who works for Morgan. Morgan frames Pete for stealing money from him and must face his murderous jealousy.
8) 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.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Moriarty has at long last been brought to trial for murder, but is acquitted after the court finds a lack of sufficient evidence. Moriarty wastes no time in plotting his next crime, but he must first divert the attention of the Great Detective.
10) The bigamist
Publisher
Film Chest, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Film Chest restored version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A travelling salesman is caught between two spouses, one an upper-crust lady and the other a tough-talking waitress. A look at a lonely man who finds himself married to two different women.
12) Junior Bonner
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rowdy modern-day western about a young, drifting rodeo star who decides to raise money for his father's ranch by challenging a formidable bull.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
15) HIgh Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of 1940s film noir, High Sierra also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, who, alongside top-billed Ida Lupino, proved his leading-man mettle with his tough yet tender turn as Roy Earle. A career criminal plagued by his checkered past, Earle longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (466 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
18 videodiscs (3019 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 episode guide (31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty utility-belts)...
