Reginald Owen
1) Mrs. Miniver
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personafies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while she is preparing for her annual flower show despite the...
Series
Criterion collection ; 867
Language
English
Formats
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Platinum blonde is a glorious spoof of the newspaper business in New York City during the Depression; Ann Schuyler, a wealthy socialite, meets reporter "Stew" Smith and the two fall madly in love. The comedy begins as she tries to transform him from a ruffian newsman into a convincing gentleman."--Container.
6) Madame Curie
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1936.
Language
English
Description
Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new romance with Follies-girl Audrey Dane, is all wrong,...
Publisher
St. Clair Entertainment Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The speckled band (1931) : "Sherlock Holmes and Watson work hard to solve the murder of a young woman."--
A study in scarlet (1933) : "Sherlock Holmes and Watson are at work once again. This time, the case involves a murder victim, and a foreign word written next to the corpse, in the victim's blood." --
Sherlock Holmes and the deadly necklace (1962) : "A precious necklace has been stolen from Cleopatra's tomb, and Scotland Yard is reticent to believe...
Publisher
Treeline Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
[Sherlock Holmes: a study in scarlet]: Members of an underground crime ring are being murdered. Holmes' investigation leads him to the beautiful Mrs. Pyke and to a stately ancestral home -- complete with screams in the foggy night, cloaked figures moving through secret passages, and a sinister Asian butler. The story bears little resemblance to the original A. Conan Doyle mystery.
[Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon]: Starting in Switzerland,...
11) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Karenina, dutiful wife and doting mother, knows contentment but not passion. That changes when she meets ardent Count Vronsky. For him, she throws away marriage, family, social position and finally her life.
12) Rose Marie
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Marie de Flor, a glamorous Canadian prima donna, is renowned for her beauty, exquisite voice and fierce temperament. When news arrives that her brother Jack has been wounded in a prison escape, Marie realizes she must go to him despite the danger. Lured into the wilderness, she encounters Sgt. Bruce, who is hunting the fugitive. Sgt. Bruce is soon hot on Marie's trail as well!
13) The pirate
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A Caribbean beauty, who is engaged to a local rich man, has a mad crush on the legendary pirate, Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with the beauty and to impress her, he poses as the pirate.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tarzan's secret treasure: When word gets out that gold has been found on Tarzan's land, a pair of villains kidnap Jane and Boy to force Tarzan to tell them where it can be found. Tarzan's New York adventure: A circus owner kidnaps Boy and forces a pilot to fly them out of the jungle. Jane, Tarzan & Cheeta must follow him to the jungle known as New York City.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this adaptation of Charles Dickens's tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve when he is visited by ghosts from Christmases past, present and future. A classic that's as integral a part of Christmas as lighted trees and mistletoe." --
16) Charley's aunt
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Charley and Jack pressure fellow student Fancourt to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Two thieves (Gable and Russell) steal each other's hearts while going after the same diamond. They become partners and board a ship bound for Hong Kong. But when the Japanese invade China, Gable's new disguise as a British officer gets them into more trouble than they ever imagined.
19) Conquest
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A historical portrayal of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1807 through 1815 and his romantic involvement with Polish Countess Marie Walewska, who bore him a son, and the eventual parting of their relationship. The story begins in Poland in 1807 and continues through the departure of Napoleon from France in 1815.
