Elizabeth Taylor
1) Cleopatra
Series
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.
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),...
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold by her impoverished family. Priscilla, played by 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, understand Lassie more than adults do and helps her escape kennel captivity. Braving storms, hunger and peril, Lassie makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
The sandpiper: A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
7) Little women
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Major Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual whose career is languishing in the monotony of postwar Georgia, becomes obsessed with a private who is, in turn, obsessed with Penderton's frustrated and sensual wife Leonora.
10) Ivanhoe
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic tale set in England in the Middle Ages. Also includes a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and a swashbuckler movie trailer gallery.
12) National Velvet
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
14) The sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
16) These old broads
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three aging divas and their agent all hate each other, but since they are all desperate for money they agree to reunite for a television special.
17) 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
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (439 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
National Velvet : A young English girl who wins an unruly horse in a raffle goes on to enter him in the Grand National Steeplechase -- International Velvet : A young girl and her horse go overseas -- Black Beauty : A horse is passed through the hands of many masters prior to returning to his original young master and a happy retirement -- The Story of Seabiscuit : A fictionalized account of an underdog bay colt who became one of the greatest thoroughbreds...
19) A date with Judy
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judy Foster (Jane Powell) is a young woman determined to attend the big school dance with an impressive date. Judy and her lifelong friend Carol (Elizabeth Taylor) fall out when they both fall for a suave older man. A high-spirited teen, Judy manages to unintentionally make a hash of her friends and family's love lives.
20) Butterfield 8
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust.