Michael Curtiz
1) Casablanca
Series
Pub. Date
1974.
Physical Description
256 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Francis Bernardone, son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ lived in Gospel simplicity and service to the poor.
Series
The signature collection volume Humphrey Bogart. Volume II
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (438 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young man with a horn: A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.
Bad and the beautiful: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems, the convicts return to prison, convinced that the world is much too wicked.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of J.E.B. Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters as they leave West Point in the years before the Civil War. Some join John Brown's army of fanatics and sincere reformers; others are sent by the army to quash John Brown. The climax is the Battle of Harper's Ferry that began the War between the States.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist.
Language
English
Description
Two song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen), they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
9) King Creole
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
10) Life with father
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The trials and tribulations of a stern but lovable father and his family in New York City in the 1880's.
11) Casablanca
Series
The signature collection volume Humphrey Bogart. Volume I
Language
English
Formats
Description
Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
13) Santa Fe trail
Series
Language
English
Description
Jeb Stuart, George Custer and two other West Point cadets are caught in the fury of John Brown's pre-Civil War insurrection in Kansas.
14) Flamingo road
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A determined carnival dancer, an aspiring politician and a malevolent manipulator of public figures form the basis of this drama.
18) Life with father
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Clarence Day's humorous autobiographical account of family life with his strong-minded father in the late 1800s.
19) The comancheros
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 Blu-ray videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Determined to bring down a violent gang of gunrunners known as Comancheros, a fearless Texas Ranger forms an uneasy alliance with a notorious outlaw gambler, and the unlikely partners soon realize they must find common ground if they're going to stay alive!
20) White Christmas
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after WWII to become one of the hottest acts in show business. They soon join forces with a sister act to help save their former army general's Vermont Inn.
