Roland Young
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen has signed a contract as a new Paramount player. He goes home to find his wife in the arms of a Parisian chap called Gerald. It all gets quite complicated, when Stephen falls in love with a woman, Germaine, who is hired to pose as Gerald's wife. Eventually, Stephen and his wife get back together, and Gerald falls for Germaine. The feature film debut of Cary Grant.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 184 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Topper]: A sophisticated and playful couple become ghosts and haunt the life of a stuffy banker. [Topper returns]: Cosmo Topper helps a shapely ghost track down her killer.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (271 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Topper: Cosmo Topper, a shy, stuffed-shirt banker, finds his life turned upside-down by two fun-loving ghosts who enter his world to bring some fun into his life for their needed "good deed". Topper takes a trip: Marian Kirby, one of the ghosts from Topper returns into his life so she can join her husband "up there" by helping the meek banker. Topper returns: Topper turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beautiful murdered girl enlists him to try...
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (431 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bishop murder case: Detective Philo Vance must find a murderer who calls himself Bishop and who marks his victims with a note containing a nursery rhyme excerpt.
The kennel murder case: Philo Vance investigates when one of the Coe brothers is found dead in his bedroom, locked from the inside, and the other brother is found the next morning dead in the downstairs closet. There is also the clue of a wounded Doberman Pinscher, a mysteriously broken...