Frank Tashlin
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man heads out west to claim his fathers inheritance, and teams up with a cowboy and his horse to get to the bottom of a gold shipment robbery. An attractive female outlaw must save the hapless hero along the way.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dog walker Norman Phiffer is in love with Barbara Tuttle, an elevator operator in her parents' department store. Barbara's conniving mother, Phoebe disapproves of the young couple and is determined to break up her daughter's romance with the incompetent boob. With hidden ulterior motives, Phoebe hires Norman to work in her department store and despite the impossible requests of Mr. Quimby, the store manager; Norman manages to do an admirable job in...
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.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
25 year old orphan, Lester March is a radio and TV repairman who dreams of someday becoming a private detective like his friend and old role model Pete Flint. One night, Lester sees a report on TV about the elderly owner of a successful electronic empire who's searching for her missing nephew, the heir to her estate. When Lester pays a visit to the woman's estate, more than one person remarks that he looks an awful lot like her missing nephew.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jayne Mansfield plays a blonde who is being coached to become a nightclub singer by her racketeer boyfriend. To help her along, he hires a hungry talent agent to boost her career into the big time. Features music by Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Platters, Ray Anthony, Julie London, The Treniers, Abbey Lincoln and other rock 'n' roll stars.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a Japanese torpedo hits a cargo ship containing a shipment of beer, Sgt. O'Farrell (Bob Hope) decides to rescue the beverages and deliver some nurses to the outpost for his men. The troops are more than surprised to receive several male nurses and Phyllis Diller.
9) Love happy
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of poor young hopefuls tying to produce a Broadway musical become involved in a diamond theft when Harpo Marx steals to help them.
10) Caprice
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Industrial spy Patricia Fowler is hot on the trail of a secret formula with the power to change the world by keeping ladies hair dry in the water! So important is this miracle hair spray that cosmetics operatives everywhere have mobilized to find it. But when Patricia crosses paths with sexy spy Christopher White, she discovers something much more sinister behind her quest.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis is the mad medicine man. Before he flunks out of med school, he'll have you in stitches. Even if you don't bust a gut when he sets a patient's hair on fire, you could die laughing during the high-speed ambulance chase.
12) Cinderfella
Pub. Date
℗2004, ©1960.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a posh Beverly Hills mansion, a kind-hearted soul named Fella works as a downtrodden houseboy for his evil stepmother and his two vain stepbrothers. The fairy godfather helps Fella go to the party where he sweeps visiting Princess Charming off her feet. That is until midnight when Fella loses a glass loafer and his spiffy convertible turns back into a bicycle.
13) The paleface
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid frontier dentist finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity Jane as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
14) The geisha boy
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Struggling magician, the Great Wooley (Jerry Lewis) and his lop-eared partner Harry Hare plan to dazzle audiences with magical feats during their USO tour of Japan and Korea. Jerry combines his trademark antics with a compassionate central story: an orphaned Japanese boy is drawn out of his shell by the magician's humor and caring"--container.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young window dresser's problems begin when he kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life. This Venus turns out to be the genuine article on an earthly assignment. Her presence causes everyone around her to fall in love, except for the window dresser, who is terrified of her advances toward him. The young man suddenly becomes the object of a furious employer and a jealous fiancée.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time con artist, nicknamed for his favorite candy, gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits. The Kid concocts a scheme to pay back the money by Christmas, by tricking his pals into dressing up as Santas and collecting money for a made-up charity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1120
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm).
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (504 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
(Thanks for the memory) "It's time for some old-fashioned romance when a stay-at-home author and his working wife discover their domestic roles aren't clear-cut in this comedy of errors."--Container.
(The cat and the canary) "Wally vows to protect an heiress who must spend the night in the haunted mansion of her late eccentric, millionaire uncle in order to inherit his fortune."--Container.
(The ghost breakers) "Ghosts and gags collide when a radio...
20) Susan slept here
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs....
