(0)Barbara Stanwyck
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English
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Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
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English
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Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
4) Ball of fire
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Series
Publisher
AMC, Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
6) Forty guns
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tougher-than-nails landowner Jessica Drummond has ruled over her county in Arizona with such power that even the local sheriff won't stand up to her. And when gunslinger-turned-U.S. marshal Griff Bonnell and his brothers seek to restore law and order, they meet with harsh resistance, that is until Jessica falls in love with Bonnell. But when the man's brother is murdered and the two families become bitter enemies, Jessica's loyalty is divided, and...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Experience the breathtaking dangers and delights of ancient Rome in "The sign of the cross"; trek through a perilous jungle with "Four frightened people"; thrill to the passion, suspense and intrigue of "Cleopatra"; journey back in time with the glorious story of "The crusades"; and see how the West was really won in the explosive "Union Pacific."
8) Titanic
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband is engrossed, a woman flees to America along with her children on the R.M.S. Titanic. Learning of her plan her husband buys a steerage ticket in the hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate steps in, the family faces an unimaginable challenge and the possibility of separation from each other forever.
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. Too late for tears: A man just found $60,000 and his wife insists that he keep it rather than turn it in to the cops. Wanting the money for herself, she kills her husband then reports him missing. The man who cheated himself: Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police officer, is in love with socialite Lois Frazer. Ed seems to find himself stuck between a rock and a hard place when Lois decides to kill her husband and Ed's brother is assigned...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
"A story of a man's search for the illegitimate son he had abandoned 20 years previously. ... After 20 years, Cagney, now a selfmade big wheel in steel, casts off business affairs to look for the son he had denied when young. The search brings him to Miss Stanwyck's [adoption home] and what looks like a blind alley when she refuses to disclose the adopting parents. While she fights him successfully in court, the association with her and her charges,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Victoria Barkley heads the family of her adult children on the Barkley Ranch in California's San Joaquin Valley, near Stockton, in the 1870s. Bank robbers, horse thieves, revolutionaries and land grabbers keep the Barkley's on their toes. Continues the adventures of the wealthy and powerful family in the untamed Old West.
15) The violent men
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him.
16) Golden boy
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young and gifted violinist earns money for his education by prizefighting.
17) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart."--Container.
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A woman kills her wealthy aunt in a row over the woman's boyfriend; another man protects the woman from prosecution in return for her agreement to marry him; eighteen years later the boyfriend returns and the woman openly renews her romance with him.
Publisher
Ovation Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Fighting caravans: A young frontiersman and his 'wife' join a wagon train headed West where he becomes the sole trail guide as they battle Indians and a villainous gun-runner. Adapted from a Zane Grey novel.
Meet John Doe : In order to keep her job, a reporter concocts the sensational story of an unemployed middle class worker who plans to strike a blow against society and big government.
A farewell to arms: An American ambulance driver and English...
Publisher
Hal Roach Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher 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 and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he 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 the clubs to bludgeon his...
