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Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Judy Garland had no better showcase of her singing and acting talent than as the title ‘star’ of this moving, memorable classic directed by George Cukor. Shortened after its 1954 premiere, the film was famously reconstructed to near its original length in 1983 under the leadership of film historian Ronald Haver. Using cutting-edge digital restoration tools, this timeless movie has been meticulously preserved and restored from the original camera...
Publisher
The Film Detective
Language
English
Description
When Sam Masterson returns to the neighborhood of his youth, he finds that his old friend Martha has married local District Attorney Walter O'Neil. All seems fine on the surface, but Walter, Martha, and Sam share a horrible secret. Soon Sam finds himself drawn into Martha's web of fear and suspicion, and the results are classic film noir!
3) Criss Cross
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbings and double-crosses ensue.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Army deserter Bart Laish is on the run and out for himself - until he figures his best escape is to hook up with a wagon train headed for Oregon. Fate gives him an opportunity: He assumes the identity of a dead friend, a major mortally wounded in a brutal Indian attack, and takes charge of the troopers escorting the besieged caravan.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An old millionaire wants to meet his son's fiancee before he dies. When the real fiancee is unavailable the son gets a quick stand-in. Surprisingly, the stand-in steals his heart, his father recovers, and then the real fiancee comes home from France.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
His Girl Friday: Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife (1940, 92 min). Also presented here is smash hit play The Front Page (1931, 101 min).
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Features eight classics from the most popular comedy team of all time: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein; Mexican Hayride; Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff; The Foreign Legion; Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man; Comin' Round the Mountain; Lost in Alaska; and Abbott and Costello Go to Mars.
11) Dinner at Eight
Publisher
Warner Bros. Turner
Language
English
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who’s who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio’s multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna...
Publisher
Sinister Cinema
Language
English
Description
Here is a quality sword and sandal epic with a great cast that has been overlooked for years. Jeanne Crain plays the stunning Egyptian beauty, Nefertiti. Edmund Purdom desires her but is foiled at every turn by an evil high priest who twice imprisons him. She eventually marries the Pharaoh and after his death becomes the queen of all Egypt. The high priest then attempts a military takeover! Some good action scenes follow. Price is most convincing...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts, especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
14) Out of the Past
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
A tough private eye is caught in a complex web of love, money and murder when he is hired to find a hood's homicidal girlfriend and falls in love with her.
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Language
English
Description
This comedy collection is a must have for all classic film lovers. (The Public Menace, 1935) A fast-paced crime comedy, (The Public Menace) teams Arthur as a manicurist with a brash newspaper reporter (George Murphy) who needs her help in solving the disappearance of a racketeer. (The Impatient Years, 1936) Jean Arthur is paired with Lee Bowman in the comedy-drama about wartime newlyweds and the complications that result from whirlwind romances,...
16) El Paso
Publisher
Kl Studio Classics
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
After serving in the Civil War, an ex-Confederate captain is ready for a quiet life as a lawyer in peacetime El Paso, Texas. However, with a corrupt sheriff, a drunken judge and a crooked landowner running the town, he decides to form a vigilante group to combat them.
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Features six classics from the most popular comedy team of all time: Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops; Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy; The World of Abbott and Costello; Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld; and Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
The original RKO publicity tells the story: 'When a man goes to the devil he usually takes a woman with him...this man took THREE!' Young plays a dirty rotten scoundrel who sponges off his wealthy wife, seduces and abandons another woman and runs off with a third. Returning home, Young plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leave him battling for his life. The role of faithless cad was a startling...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! An Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A ‘reformed’ gambler and homesteader sits down at the card table, loses his family's $4000 startup stake, and then is dealt a fantastic hand. What happens next is full deck of suspense, humor and surprises, many involving an aces-high ensemble and the newcomer's wife, who...
20) Libeled Lady
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
When a society diva slaps a newsman with a libel suit, Tracy enlists fiancee Harlow and down-on-his-luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, and eventually true love for all.
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