Josef Von Sternberg
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy cafe. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man, and dies.
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Shanghai's slimy underworld, English financier Sir Guy Charteris tries to close a gambling den, owned by the devious Mother Gin Sling. However, Gin Sling learns that Charteris's daughter Poppy is a regular at her establishment and with the help of the coldly seductive Dr. Omar, she lures Poppy into gambling and drug addictions. Gin Sling blackmails Charteris and reveals a shocking secret, plunging them to another level of hell."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (106, 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer.
8) Macao
Series
The signature collection volume Robert Mitchum
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the notorious Far East port of Macao, a mysterious American adventurer helps a detective hunt down an elusive gangster.
9) Morocco
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Jaded cabaret singer Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Dietrich) falls for Tom Brown (Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. After Tom overhears the wealthy man-of-the-world La Bessiere (Adolphe Menjou) propose to Amy, he accepts a dangerous assignment, convinced that he cannot give the beautiful chanteuse the life she wants. All proves fair in love and war, however, and Amy must decide which man she truly loves"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 935
Criterion collection volume 931
Criterion collection volume 932
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Criterion collection volume 931
Criterion collection volume 932
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
6 video discs (approximately 9 hrs) : mono, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cabaret singer in North Africa is torn between two lovers; a streetwalker spys for Austria during World War I; a courtesan causes a scandal on a dangerous train ride through China; a former singer resurrects her stage career after her husband becomes ill; a spoiled princess transforms into Catherine the Great; a young man falls in love with a dangerous seductress in spite of warnings against her.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Inspired by actual events, this film explores the conflicting personalities of a dozen Japanese sailors stranded on a remote island in the Pacific during the waning days of World War II. For a time, they maintain their military discipline, but when they discover a young woman living on the island, the paradisal island becomes a nest of jealousy, violence, and desire. New 2K restoration of the uncensored 1958 version (Sternberg's preferred cut of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 109
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
13) Jet pilot
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sent by the Pentagon to obtain top secret information from a supposedly defecting Russian woman pilot, the Colonel courts her so successfully that they fall in love and wed. With their marriage as a perfect cover, he is ordered to flee Russia with his bride, this time with him posing as a defector. When the political charade is discovered, however, the couple must embark on a dangerous flight to freedom.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (703 min) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Devil and the Deep (1932): A commanding officer (Charles Laughton) suspects a lieutenant (Cary Grant) of seducing his wife (Tallulah Bankhead) when the real threat is another officer (Gary Cooper).
Blonde Venus (1932): A former nightclub entertainer (Marlene Dietrich) is torn between her husband (Herbert Marshall), lover (Cary Grant), career and child after her husband is diagnosed with radium poisoning.
Hot Saturday (1932): A small-town girl (Nancy...
17) The last command
Series
Criterion collection volume 530
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Crippled by guilt and paranoia after committing a murder he thinks is just, Roderick Raskolnikov is torn between the detective investigating the murder and the woman he saved, who now wants to save his soul.
Series
Criterion collection volume 528
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (244 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (95 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his film's dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three...
20) Underworld
Series
Criterion collection volume 528
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gangster's jealous nature toward his girlfriend gets him in trouble, first with a rival gang, then with the cops.