Una Merkel
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uproarious W.C. Fields is Egbert Souse, a lowly bank guard who divides his time between the Black Pussy Cat Cafe and his dreaded family. His life changes when fate leads him to heroism.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this thriller that helped inspire Batman's creation, a gothic mansion is the setting for mystery and terror as a wealthy spinister tries to learn a mysterious thief's identity.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hayley Mills stars as two young girls who, while at summer camp, discover that they are long-lost twin sisters, separated shortly after birth. Reunited at last, they launch a coast-to-coast campaign to rekindle romance between their estranged parents.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kettles in the Ozarks: Ma and the kids head back to the Ozarks for a visit with Uncle Sedge. The Kettles on Old Macdonald's farm: Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 78 min. ; approximately 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kill the umpire (1950 : 78 min): Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson (William Bendix), failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans (Ray Collins), a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. -- Safe at home (1962 : 84 min.) Young Hutch Lawton brags to his Little League buddies that his dad knows Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Forced to "put up or shut up" Hutch goes...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Lincoln, trial by fire: Lincoln, facing the crisis of a divided nation, was forced to turn for help to General George McClellan, who supported Southern positions on slavery and states' rights. The conflict between Lincoln and McClellan was intense from the start and before their uneasy partnership ended it became one of the strangest stories in American history.
They've killed President Lincoln: Matthew Brady photographs and processed contemporary...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An infamous burglar and jewel thief known as "The Bat" plays cat and mouse with the police and terrorizes the occupants of a mansion, leased from a bank president who is in Europe.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection volume 3, disc 2
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frisco Jenny: Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has gone on to become the madame of a prosperous bawdy house. After putting her son up for adoption, he becomes a district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. She kills an underling who wants her son dead and is now facing execution.
Midnight Mary: A mistaken arrest, a prison term, and lack of employment leads to a young woman's involvement with gangsters. In a brothel...
11) The merry widow
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sonia, a bubbly widow owns 52% of every cow and cow town in the tiny East European country of Marshovia. When she relocates to glittery Paris, suave ladies' man Captain Danilo sets out in hot pursuit. His mission: avert his homeland's financial ruin by bringing Sonia back on the wings of love. But hang on tight, Danilo. Set in 1885.
12) On borrowed time
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (250 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln: This Lincoln was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
Yellowneck: This story centers on five "Yellownecks", deserters of the Confederate...
14) The mating game
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An IRS investigator comes to check on an unpredictable businessman who hasn't paid his taxes, and ends up falling in love with the man's pretty daughter.
15) Abraham Lincoln
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only two films with sound from silent film director D. W. Griffith: Abraham Lincoln (1930, features Walter Huston) and The Struggle (a man who gives up drinking to marry the woman of his dreams goes back to the bottle years later).
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck. Though reluctant to undertake such an enormous task, he's soon roped into action after meeting the seductive Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring saloon girl who belts out unforgettable show-stoppers like "The Boys in the Back Room," while winning the hero's heart.
17) 42nd street
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.
Series
Language
English
Description
As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a glorious career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers come together to create an...
19) This is the Army
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screen adaptation of the stage play that raised nearly $2 million for Army Emergency Relief. Features real-life GIs in a tale of a father and son who put on a show before the son marches off to war.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (79 ; 81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Red headed woman: Precensorship story of gold-digging secretary Lil who works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert.
Waterloo bridge: Roy Cronin, a Canadian soldier in London on furlough, falls in love with Myra Deauville, unaware that she is a prostitute. She accepts...