Joan Blondell
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Includes 5 classical musical films with Bing Crosby. Waikiki wedding: A beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion. Double or nothing: A dying millionaire instructs his laywer to drop 25 purses on the streets of New York City. Four honest people find them and return them to the lawyer. Under the terms of the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
3) Cry havoc
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant. Make do, supplies will not arrive. Stay strong, despite the overwhelming odds. The nation was shaken by the plight of U.S. and Filipino forces in the early days of America's World War II involvement, a tale of courage and camaraderie.
The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant....
4) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Classic romantic comedy stars Hollywood legends Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Bunny Watson heads up the research department at a TV network. Richard Sumner arrives to introduce computers into the department. When electricity sparks between Bunny and Richard, Bunny's boyfriend Mike is not happy. As the tension mounts...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous...
7) Grease
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Grease - Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? Grease Two - Return to Rockin' Rydell high for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original GreaseTM gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington...