Gene Lockhart
Language
English
Description
Updated version of the 1947 Christmas classic. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle, Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list.
Series
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
4) Algiers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Boyer plays a celebrated thief who takes refuge in the Casbah. Lamarr plays the woman he loves and can't live without.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen's devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as Richard comes to realize that his wife is shockingly possessive and may be capable of destroying anyone who comes between them. A singular Hollywood masterpiece...
8) Carousel
Language
English
Description
Billy Bigelow , a smooth-talking carny man, falls in love with a millworker. Tragedy strikes these star-crossed lovers and their journey is not easy.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
William Weldon resents the way his wife Margaret is always meddling in his business, even though her suggestions are often right on the money. Things get worse when Weldon attempts to market an eccentric inventor's embalming fluid that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair.
10) The sea wolf
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Wolf Larsen is the tyrannical captain of a freighter, who would rather "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." He lords over a roughneck recruit, two castaways and his crew in a cruel manner.
11) Edison, the man
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades ... or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov,...
15) The sea wolf
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The tyrannical captain of a freighter would rather 'reign in Hell than serve in Heaven' in this classic drama.
16) Going my way
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest. He is new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding.
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
20) Meet John Doe
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of...
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