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(0)Stanley Holloway
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. One day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six...
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
Director Otto Preminger's epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor details the devastating attack on the Hawaiian naval base as well as the explosive, behind-the-scenes stories. An awesome cast - including John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda is interwoven into this account of the attack itself, as well as into the triumphs and tragedies of disobeyed orders, the American counter-offensive, father-son reunions, battles at sea, and layers of...
3) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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...
6) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.
7) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premier; 1963 production...
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sir Alec Guinness as Henry Holland, a meek clerk, devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But their ingenious idea to melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers and smuggle them to France turns their perfect crime into a disastrous caper and unexpected surprises.
Author
Language
English
Description
Holland, a man dreaming of fame and fortune, is nearing his retirement after twenty years as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day, he befriends his neighbor Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland notice that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon enough, the two find themselves embroiled in a life of crime,...
12) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer edition.
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
13) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two married people, both unsatisfied with their relationships, meet on a train platform in London and fall in love.
14) Brief Encounter
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is a poignant and beautifully crafted love story. Laura Jesson accidentally meets a man, Dr Alex Harvey, at a railway station. As their acquaintance grows, so does their love for each other despite both being married with children. On the brink of an affair and desperately in love, the two must make a choice that may part them forever.
18) My fair lady
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
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