Sydney Greenstreet
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A famous food writer lies about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her editor says she will spend Christmas with a heroic sailor, her job is on the line.
Series
The signature collection volume Humphrey Bogart. Volume II
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Humphrey Bogart plays U.S. counterspy Rick Leland in this crisply written wartime thriller.
3) The verdict
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard superintendent Grodman retires in disgrace when a man he helped convict is exonerated after being hanged. When someone commits the perfect crime, a locked-room murder, Grodman seeks to redeem himself by solving the case.
4) 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
[2016]
Physical Description
6 audio discs (approximately 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, with the legendary stars that made them great. You'll hear Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Chester Morrris as Boston Blackie, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, and Jack Webb as Dragnet's Sergeant Friday, plus Philip Marlowe, Johnny Dollar, and more.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
6 audio discs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar, and Les Tremayne as Nick Charles, a.k.a. "The Thin Man"--plus many more gumshoes, including Boston Blackie, Philip Marlowe, The Fat Man, and...
10) Three strangers
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
9 audio discs (approximately 540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Learn the logic of this armchair detective extraordinaire as he presides over 18 digitally remastered cases of treasure maps and love triangles, carelessness and con artists, bad business and bad medicine.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
4 Blu-ray videodiscs (433 min.) : sound, black and white with some color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maltese falcon: After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
Casablanca: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (464 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.) : Rick Blaine sticks his neck out for nobody. Then she walks back into his life ... with her Resistance-leader husband.
Mrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): One of Hollywood's most memorable spirit-lifters about an idealized England confronting the terror of World War II.
Gigi (1958, color, 115 min.): Gigi (Leslie Caron) goes from girlishness to glamour and desires more than the lush life of suitor Gaston (Louis Jourdan).
An...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, artist Walter Hartright arrives in Limmeridge, England to teach drawing to wealthy Laura Fairlie. As he walks to the Fairlie estate, he encounters a strange young woman dressed in white, who disappears when a carriage drives up. The passenger, Count Alesandro Fosco, asks Walter if he has passed a woman, explaining that she has escaped from a private asylum, but Walter says nothing. At the house, Walter is greeted by Laura's cousin, Marian...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: The Maltese falcon: Some high-living lowlifes want to get their hands on a bejeweled falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why and find out who will take the fall for his partner's murder. The big sleep: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and ends up wearing out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.
Disc 2: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (384 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
