King Vidor
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From legendary Oscar-winning director King Vidor (The crowd, Duel in the sun) comes an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia: Bird of paradise. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is betrothed to a neighboring native prince, and is soon to be married. With little thought to the future, Johnny and Luana...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece comes to life in this epic film classic, featuring the talents of some of the greatest names from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Starring Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, Henry Fonda as Pierre, and Mel Ferrer as Prince Andrei, WAR AND PEACE is a compelling **Oscar**-nominated drama of international conflict, spectacular adventure, gripping intrigue and tragic romance set against the sweeping backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion...
Series
Publisher
Dist. by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : mono. sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, the film centers around disenchanted aristocrat and unhappily married Pierre and Prince Andrei, who both are in love with an innocent young woman, Natasha.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. And when it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is truly the epitome of bravery"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011, c1940
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 8 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American historical drama about a group of settlers known as Rogers' Rangers--led by Major Rogers (Spencer Tracy)--and the hardships of survival and battles with hostile Indians, they encounter in trying to settle the upper New York state area for their families in the late 1750s and early 1760s.
9) The champ
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wallace Beery plays a washed-up prizefighter making a ring comeback to provide for his son.
10) The citadel
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young doctor in a Welsh mining village runs up against the medical establishment when he tries to explore the cause of a cough disabling miners; he abandons his humanitarian goals for a London practice.
11) Hallelujah
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.
12) The fountainhead
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard [version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (354 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey back to the Old West and relive all the gunfights, barroom brawls and romance in these four classic Westerns.
