Joan Blondell
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adman Rockwell P. Hunter must come up with a new idea to propel him one more rung up the corporate ladder in this satire on Madison Avenue, television and the cult of the movie star.
2) Public enemy
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Classic gangster film tells the story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition.
Series
Criterion collection volume 255
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Broadway actress, who is unable to admit that she is aging must confront her personal and professional turmoils in order to make a part her own.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In What you need, a two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most. In What's in the box, Joe Britt sees his secret revealed and its horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set. He frantically tries to alter his fate by confronting his wife. In The mirror, after a poor, but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrow's his country's tyrannical...
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Just when Navaho rodeo star Joe Lightcloud has it all figured out, his plans go up in smoke. His idea about raising cattle on the reservation is a good one. But you know that great chow Joe and everyone else enjoyed at the community party last night? Turns out somebody's barbecued the herd's only bull! Where Joe goes, trouble follows.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
9) Grease
Language
English
Description
A musical about the fabulous 50's. This edition includes retrospective interviews with principal stars, the director and producer.
10) Lizzie
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is beset by headaches and menacing letters from Lizzie, who emerges from within as a barfly mantrap compensating for Elizabeth's shyness. A caring neighbor steers her to the psychiatrist who unlocks her disordered mind, bringing out another steadier woman named Beth.
11) Grease
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection features 21 song-and-dance spectaculars staged and directed by Busby Berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930's. Included are excerpts from "42nd Street" (1933), "Gold diggers of 1933" (1933), "Fashions of 1934" (1934), "In Caliente" (1933), "Footlight parade" (1933), "Wonder Bar" (1934), "Dames" (1934), "Gold diggers of 1935" (1935), and "Gold diggers of 1937" (1937)
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
15) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
16) Night nurse
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection volume 2, disc 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lora is turned down for a nurse-trainee job until a kindly doctor gives her a recommendation. When caught breaking curfew, she is put on the night shift as punishment, and sees life in a big-city hospital. Lora is then assigned to work an in-home case, and uncovers a conspiracy.
17) Nightmare alley
Series
Language
English
Description
"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 charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him...
18) Adventure
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harry Patterson, a merchant marine with a swagger in his walk, a girl in every port and a hidden philosophical bent. While on shore leave, he goes with his buddy Mudgin to a most unlikely place ... the library! There, he meets reference expert Emily Sears. She is the picture of ladylike decorum, and she hates Harry on sight. She continues to hate him, almost until the moment she marries him! Then, Harry tells her he's shipping out again, and Emily...
19) Footlight parade
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cagney stars as Chester Kent, a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. When his latest show is cancelled in favor of a talking picture, he turns to staging musical prologues to play before the features in moviehouses.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection volume 3, disc 1
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Other men's women: Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured.
The purchase price: Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance of...
