Ronald Neame
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Account of wartime espionage based on the true story of an intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
Series
Criterion collection volume 154
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gulley Jimson, an ill-behaved artist is in search for a perfect canvas. He is determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
Series
Criterion collection volume 603
Publisher
The Criterion collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : sd., col. or b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"In which we serve": The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for
"This happy breed": The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable life in...
6) Hopscotch
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
A teacher in a 1930's Scottish girls' school captivates her students with her fascist ideals and free-thinking attitude. She engages in ongoing battles with the rigid heads of the school and faces the biggest trial of her life when her livelihood and career are threatened.
8) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1948, 1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
10) Scrooge
Publisher
CBS DVD : Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas.
11) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels : illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
12) The Chalk garden
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a family conflict over possession of an emotionally troubled child which comes to a climax after the hiring of a mysterious Nanny.
13) Tunes of glory
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1960
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
Publisher
distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The odd couple II: After years of going their separate ways, Felix and Oscar are together again, en route to the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
First Monday in October: When the first woman is nominated to the Supreme Court, she butts heads with another judge. They soon learn to respect each other, but through a number of comedic encounters.
Series
Publisher
ITV DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (NTSC , approximately 113 min.) : Blu-Ray, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodisc (490 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bells Of St Mary's : Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.
White Christmas : Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts...
Author
Language
English
Description
Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh star in this dramatic comedy that centers around the appointment of the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. She is aggressive, witty, magnetic-and an arch-conservative. He is wry, opinionated and roundly liberal. One hundred and one men have preceded the new female justice to seats on the bench of the nation's highest court, but now it's eight men and her. All unanimously accept their new colleague-except Matthau,...