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Series
Studio classic volume 22
Language
English
Description
Roger and his friend Charlie audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. The number "Alexander's ragtime band" proves to be a sensation. Charlie soon falls in love with Stella who is the singer of the band. When Roger returns from World War I, he meets Stella and learns she and Charlie have married.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
Series
Language
English
Description
Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent...
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Series
Studio classic volume 6
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century a young widow and her daughter move into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
Series
Studio classic volume 13
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.
12) Duel in the sun
Language
English
Description
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between his sons, one good and the other bad.
Series
Studio classic volume 34
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive who defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama.
15) The rains came
Series
Studio classic volume 36
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced with disaster.
16) Two for the road
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together--through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood--all on the road.
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 569 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna and the King of Siam: Anna and her son travel to the exotic kingdom of Siam to educate the harem and children of the King. (1946).
Cole Porter's Can-can: A Parisian nightclub dancer in the nineties is sued for performing the Can Can. (1960).
Daddy long legs: Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they...
19) Elmer Gantry
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
20) The long goodbye
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
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