Carol Reed
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([26] pages ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Language
English
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
"Compact, propulsive screenplay ..."--Variety.
"One of the finest spy films ever."--TV Guide.
4) Oliver!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen 30th anniversary tribute ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : digital dolby, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
Series
Publisher
Periscope Film
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true glory: An account of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
D-Day minus one: A record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 1O1st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 invasion...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w, ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet (19 x 38 cm., folded)
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1955
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe is a young boy who lives in the poor section of London. He becomes convinced that through the mythical powers of a unicorn, he can grant the wishes of his mother and friends. Joe searches endlessly and finally discovers his unicorn - which turns out to be a goat with a misshapen horn.
11) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (10 unnumbered pages)
Language
English
Description
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
12) The third man
Publisher
Artiflix
Pub. Date
[201-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (093 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
