Mark Robson
1) Lost command
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Raspeguy leads his defeated and humiliated French army out of Indochina, he learns that he's been relieved of all command. A French Countess finagles a new position for him in Algeria and he persuades two wartime buddies to join him in shaping up a rag-tag unit. Raspeguy is forced to confront an Arab terrorist and launches a bloody battle against Segal's rebel forces.
2) Champion
Publisher
Republic Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Midge Kelly is a fun-loving former navy man whose life is made complex by his sudden rise to fame in professional boxing. He becomes popular after months of training and a series of fixed fights. But the champion falls from the top when he beats Johnny Dunne, a prize fighter, into the ground when he has been instructed by the syndicate to lose the fight.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Standard version; Full screen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The seventh victim (71 min.): Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline.
Shadows in the dark : the Val Lewton legacy (54 min.): a documentary of the life and films of the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton with commentary by his colleagues.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Leopard Man (66 min.): A leopard escapes from a nightclub and proceeds to wreak havoc on the populace.
The ghost ship (69 min.): A young ship's officer begins to suspect that his captain may also be a murderer.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat people: A woman fears that an ancient curse will be transform her into a panther if aroused to passion, anger, or jealousy.
The curse of the cat people: A young girl creates an imaginary friend, based on a picture of her father's long-dead first wife.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Isle of the dead: A group of strangers are all quarantined inside the same house after an outbreak of the plague.
Bedlam: A wealthy activist attempts to reform the St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, with disastrous results.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition.
Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher: A surgeon pays an unscrupulous body snatcher to deliver fresh cadavers to him.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Humphrey Bogart stars as a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter. Together, they scheme to deceive a clumsy, seven-foot giant into believing he has a shot at the heavyweight title.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 359 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories.
"Hell is for heroes": It's autumn 1944, and Nazi forces along the Siegfried Line have the numbers, the fortifications and the firepower to break through. And a handful of GIs have little more than a dogged determination and the ingenuity to fool the Germans into thinking they...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harry Wargrave, an undercover agent, must escort a Soviet defector back to Washington, but commandos are out to stop Harry and will even use an avalanche to try.
16) Peyton place
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
17) Earthquake
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shock waves through the lives of all who live there.
18) Cat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 833
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
A Serbian immigrant living in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([6] p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...