Arthur Hornblow
1) The captive
Author
Pub. Date
1926.
Physical Description
x pages, 2 leaves, 3-255 pages : frontispiece, plates. ; 20 cm
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stationed in England during World War II, Buzz Rickson is the bravest air force pilot in his squadron. His maniacal quest for aerial thrills prompts his many daredevil heroics. His rebellious attitude, however, threatens to alienate him from everyone around him.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of 'the incomparable Annette Kellerman,' an Australian swimming champion and water ballet artist who ends up performing in New York's Hippodrome. When Annette is younger, she hampered by cumbersome leg braces. She starts swimming to strengthen her legs and before long, a star is born. She swims and dives her way through the show-biz ranks, struggling to support her musician father and fighting a woman's battle between love and career.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
7) Oklahoma!
Language
English
Description
A cowboy and a country girl's relationship is strained by another suitor.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
9) Oklahoma!
Pub. Date
[2007], 1999, 1955.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cowboy wins his girl despite the intervention of a sinister hired hand.
Series
Criterion collection volume 847
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heist is being set up to be pulled off by Doc, who has recruited a small gang to help him carry it out. Everything he could possibly think of was taken care of, down to the very last detail. It's the night of the heist and suddenly Doc's luck turns sour when betrayal strikes and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
11) Midnight
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A penniless showgirl, impersonating a Hungarian countess, quickly adapts to her new lifestyle with the help of an aristocrat. But she finds herself falling in love with yet another poor man.
12) Gaslight
Language
English
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 448 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The war lover: In England during World War II, bomber pilots fall for the same girl, but only one will make it through the war to ask for her hand. Hellcats of the Navy: Highlights the daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II. This is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's only screen appearance together. Anzio: A war correspondent paints a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest...
14) Cary Grant
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (385 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection of five romantic comedies starring Cary Grant.
Disc 1: "Thirty Day Princess": In this rags-to-riches tale, a newspaper publisher finds himself falling for a foreign princess, only to suspect that there is some other power behind the throne. "Kiss and Make-up": Beauty really is only skin deep when a famed beautician marries a former client and discovers that her shallow behavior makes his faithful secretary much more attractive.
Disc 2:...