Peter Lorre
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Author
Series
Route 66 volume 6
Language
English
Description
Old-time horror-movie icons Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre reunite at a Chicago hotel to plan a horror TV show for a new generation.
7) Secret agent
Publisher
Laserlight DVD
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A British couple on vacation in Switzerland become involved in a web of foreign intrigue when they learn about anassassination plot from a dying agent and about their daughter's kidnapping.
12) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Special ed. [2-disc standard ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954.
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
14) Silk stockings
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
15) Three strangers
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Full screen].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Global warming ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A routine scientific expedition to the North Pole turns into a race to save all mankind when a radiation belt in space causes a fiery inferno on Earth. The crew of atomic submarine Seaview battle saboteurs, giant-sea creatures, and enemy submarines.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this heart-pounding suspense story, spies kidnap a young girl, in an attempt to prevent her parents from revealing what they know about an assassination plot. The action takes you from the Swiss Alps to Britain's Albert Hall and London's East End."
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Edition
2 disc special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Phlegmatic, punctual Englishman Phileas Fogg believes in progress, science, and intellectual deduction. When a member of the Reform Club challenges him on the impossibility of completing a round-the-world tour in eighty days, he wagers his entire fortune to prove that he can do it. He is accompanied by his valet Passepartout, and followed by Mr. Fix, a detective who believes he is a notorious bank robber. Shot in 70mm, using the Todd-AO process...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1961-1966
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (207 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Voyage to the bottom of the sea: When a Van Allen radiation belt in space threatens to destroy life on Earth, Admiral Nelson and his submarine crew set out to save the planet.
Fantastic voyage: A team of medical specialists are miniaturized to operate on a blood clot in the brain of a seriously-ill government scientist.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (464 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months...