Charles Durning
1) I.Q
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
All the world knows about Einstein the scientific genius. But what about Einstein the matchmaker? I.Q. puts this fanciful notion to the test and comes up with winning results in this fun, warm-hearted romantic comedy.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of the revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, in which Africans abducted from Sierra Leone in violation of international law took over the ship on which they were held, only to end up in the American court system. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. Based on court documents and transcripts, letters written by the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...
4) Local color
Publisher
Monterey
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A renowned artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974, when he befriended an elderly alcoholic yet genius painter who has turned his back not only on art, but on life. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The student learns to see the world through the eyes of an artist, while the master remembers how to see past the ugliness in life.
Series
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
In this funny, dark comedy the trashy rub shoulders with the classy as reputations are ruined. Dizzy society hostess Millicent Jordan is planning an elegant dinner party for British royalty. But somehow the guest list winds up being a rogue’s gallery. But there’s still plenty of greed, ambition, and scandal to satisfy the enormous appetites of Millicent’s guests. It all boils over into an evening of delicious backstabbing humor...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day.
Based on actual events that took place one hot August afternoon in 1972, the movie recreates the incredible circumstances surrounding an ill-fated Brooklyn bank robbery attempt.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three convicts escape the chain gang to find a stolen treasure, but end up having a series of strange adventures.
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Katrina's suitor Brom, jealous of Sleepy Hollow's new schoolmaster who is also in love with Katrina, tries to scare him away with an encounter with the headless horseman.
Ichabod Crane, the superstitious new schoolmaster finds himself competing for the heart of Katrina and comes face-to-face with Sleepy Hollow's most famous resident, the Headless Horseman.
11) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1995
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A house of ill repute is in danger of being shut down unless the proprietor's boyfriend - the sheriff - can pull some strings.
A sheriff and a proprietress join together not only in romance, but to fight a big city TV crusader in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.
A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse....
15) Dick Tracy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
©2002, ©1990.
Language
English
Description
G-man Dick Tracy battles top crime figure The Lame One in San Francisco.