Spencer Tracy
2) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters, who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible, forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Series
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1059 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 398 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boys Town : Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Captains courageous : When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : One man is a paragon of virtue, the other a murderous creature of the London night. They are the same person. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging Cuban fisherman, alone in a small skiff, catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home.
11) Adam's rib
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
12) San Francisco
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blackie Norton is a gambler with a big heart, and Father Tim Mullin is Blackie's childhood friend. Nob Hill snob Jack Burley, vies with Blackie for the attentions of beauty Mary Blake.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
14) Boom town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In search of black-gold fortunes, two men will dream, scheme and team up to become rich. Things between the friends get rough, as one man steals the love of a woman from the other.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1961
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 186 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.
18) Pat and Mike
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter, who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.
19) The last hurrah
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (393 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The films included are Woman Of The Year (1942); Adam's Rib (1949); Pat and Mike (1952); and The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute By Katharine Hepburn (1986), available only in this set.
