Rudolph Maté
1) Gilda
Series
Criterion collection volume 795
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out booklet.
Language
English
Description
A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crime lord boss, and his right-hand man.
2) Sahara
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An explosive war story about a ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
4) Vampyr
Series
Criterion collection volume 437
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (38 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm) and 1 book (214 pages ; 17 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young traveler happens upon a remote castle, and starts seeing sinister, inexplicable sights.
5) Cover girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
Publisher
Questar, Inc. [distributor]
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (540 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson Welles...
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray special ed.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.)
Language
English
Description
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
9) Love affair
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michel Marnet and Terry McKay meet on a ship on which he is sailing to marry a rich heirss. When they fall in love they agree to meet 6 months later at the top of the Empire State Building, if they are both still free. On the way Terry meets with crippling accident.
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Director-approved, dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray Disc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 blu-ray discs (120 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
11) Suddenly
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly: In the small town of Suddenly, California, three gangsters intent on killing the President of the United States trap the Benson family in their house that sits at the top of a hill near the railroad station.
D.O.A.: After being told that he has been poisoned and has only a few days to live, vacationing accountant Frank Bigelow tries to find out who wants to kill him and why.
