George Stevens
Language
English
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 180 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook has endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel. They spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (426 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To help the war effort, a patriotic young woman rents half of her apartment to a well-to-do, retired millionaire, who decides to play cupid by renting half of his half to a high-type, clean-cut nice young man.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young couple falls in love while on a trip to Japan, but face tragedy when an earthquake causes June (Irene Dunne) to lose the baby she is carrying. When she and Roger (Cary Grant) return to San Francisco, they consider adoption as an antidote to their now-struggling marriage. Meanwhile, June's favorite records seem to unfailingly chronicle her life throughout this warmly-entertaining drama.
7) Swing time
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
9) Shane
Language
English
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nurse Anne Lee arrives at understaffed, underfunded Hepperton General Hospital with an eagerness to serve. Dealing with an epidemic, a multi-casualty bus accident and other emergencies, she'll find opportunities to do so again and again. She'll also find something else: redemption for a fatal past error for which she, although innocent, accepted the blame.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for...
12) Giant
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife, and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and nouveau-riche oil tycoons.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gunga Din: Cheeky British soldiers combat a murderous sect in colonial India.
Operation Pacific: The USS Thunderfish conducts a desperate and dangerous submarine mission deep in enemy territory during WWII.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs in 6 separate volumes (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (DVD) (1,059 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...