George Brent
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (308 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Baby face: Story of an abused small-town girl who travels to New York City and becomes wealthy by manipulating men.
Red-headed woman: A gold-digging...
2) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
Series
Studio classic volume 36
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1939
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced with disaster.
4) Dark victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, 1939
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and headstrong heiress suddenly learns that she has only six months to live. Defiant and rebellious at first, she conquers this stroke of fate by the power of great love and ultimately finds peace and happiness in the brief span of life allotted to her.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tempestuous and ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen and her little boy, Pete. Sandra's chic New York friends can't imagine what the two women have in common. What they don't know is that Pete is Sandra's son - the son of the heroic aviator both women love.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stanley Timberlake is a young woman who decides to dump her fiancé and runs off with her sister Roy's husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than...
7) Luxury liner
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Perky Jane Powell (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) plays the golden-voiced teen daughter of an ocean liner captain (George Brent) who stows away on dad's ship in hopes of showcasing her singing skills to a voyaging opera star (played by real-life Wagnerian Lauritz Melchior). Many more musical talents set sail too: Xavier Cugat swings with Con Maracas, the Pied Pipers add silken harmonies and operatic soprano Marina Koshetz trills and spoofs the...
8) 42nd Street
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the all-time great Hollywood chillers! A murderer is targeting disabled young women in a New England town, and Helen, a mute servant in a Gothic mansion, is terrified she's next. Mrs. Warren, the invalid, bullying mistress of the house, warns Helen to leave at once, rather than rely on her weak son and stepson for protection. But even as Helen is packing her things, she suspects she may be too late and the murderer is closer than she ever imagined....
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (384 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
42nd Street: A Broadway producer sends in an understudy when his star twists her ankle.
Gold diggers of 1937: Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now, voyager: A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Fighting 69th" is a World War I regiment consisting mostly of New York-Irish soldiers. Jerry Plunkett is the cockiest member of a cocky crew. Jerry is a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and enlisted of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the chaplain, Father Duffy, tries to make Plunkett see the greater good. None of them seem to succeed. In the trenches, Plunkett acts selfishly and cowardly,...