Franz Waxman
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
2) Rear window
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
7) Rear window
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1954
Edition
Widescreen ; Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. . . Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Series
Studio classic volume 28
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This engaging follow-up to Grace Metalious' best-seller is a study in big-time ambition and small-town narrow-mindedness."--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends. A catastrophic plane crash puts an end to the sufferings of three ill-fated passengers, Binky Gay, Dr. Fortness, and Eddie Hoke. For the fourth, Trask, a lawyer, it gives him a second chance, even though he believes his wife no longer loves him. Airline officials prepare to inform the loved ones of those killed, but Trask asks to be allowed to carry the news to the families of his friends himself....
17) Mr. Skeffington
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the prelimanary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
19) Cimarron
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.