Dennis Price
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a women, gain points in a conversation, or beating someone who plays a better game. One of Mr. Potter's pupils is a desperate Henry Palfrey whose every attempt to win the heart of April Smith has been thwarted by the cad Raymond Delauney. Needless to say Mr. Potter's instructions allow Henry to vanquish his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Standard format (1.33:1).
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent, with three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant, a resourceful British sergeant, and a melancholy girl. While enroute to Canterbury they are waylaid and forced to solve a local crime, the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
Publisher
Distributed by Fox Lorber Associates
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, spoiled heiress has everything money can buy, except a husband. After a disastrous first marriage, she sets her sights on a dedicated but poor Indian doctor who has saved her from suicide.
5) Victim
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action"--Container.
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
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (451 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kind hearts and coronets: Following his mother's death, an Edwardian gentleman plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family.
The Lavender Hill mob: A bank clerk devises a plot to steal a fortune in gold from his own bank.
The man in the white suit: An eccentric chemist one day invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty.
The captain's paradise: The captain of an international ferryboat secretly...
