Jack Lemmon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. Winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon) and nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Gilford) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
[Full screen version].
Language
English
Formats
Description
They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an unexpected crash course in how their policies affected the citizens....
Publisher
Shout Factory
Language
English
Description
The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close". **Academy Award** nominee. **Venice Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **Toronto International...
10) Some like it hot
Series
Criterion collection volume 950
Language
English
Description
Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
11) Mister Roberts
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Jane Osgood a single mom of two finds herself in the live lobster business. When her first big order turns up dead it kills her chances for a successful season. Discovering that budget cuts at the railroad is to blame she goes up against the railroad's tyrannical owner to make this season not a complete loss.
14) Grumpy old men
Language
English
Description
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
16) Missing
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
When a young American writer and filmmaker disappear during a South American military coup, his father and wife begin a desperate search for him that results in red tape, blind alleys, lies and false hopes from both U.S. and Latin American officials.
18) Out to sea
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Two men decide to become dance instructors on a cruise ship so they can meet women and con them out of money.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, the Army recruits Navy officer Rip Crandall to command a battered old schooner for a top secret mission. Masquerading as a Japanese fishing boat, this nautical nightmare must smuggle a spy through the mine-infested waters of the South Pacific.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Language
English
Description
When reporter Kimberly Wells and cameraman Richard Adams cover the daily routine at a Los Angeles power plant, the unthinkable happens: a nuclear accident that could have wiped out Southern California. But with millions of dollars at stake, company officials cannot let the story break.