Thomas Mitchell
Pub. Date
[2005], c1939
Formats
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order to save herself and her family.
Series
Studio classic volume 38
Formats
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
Description
Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
Series
Studio classic volume 39
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A young priest, Father Chisholm, is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese.
7) High noon
Pub. Date
2002
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
8) The Outlaw
Series
Pub. Date
c1943
Description
"Notorious western tells the tale of Billy the Kid and the sexy dame (Jane Russell) who loves him."
10) Buffalo Bill
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
This historical epic follows Buffalo Bill from his adventures in the West to his courageous battles in the East, where he travels to condemn the slaughter of the Indians and buffalo.
11) Stagecoach
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
A group of nine passengers with nothing in common are stuck inside a stagecoach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
12) High noon
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When a killer he had sent to jail vows revenge, a retired marshal takes up his badge and guns again, alienating his new Quaker bride.
13) Stagecoach
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
15) The laughmaker
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The laughmaker: Gleason plays the sad clown, and Carney his nemesis, a reporter looking for the man behind the mask. The square peg: A personnel psychologist is unwittingly hired by a mob boss to shake up his crew. When the psychologist realizes what's going on, he tries to do the right thing--the wrong way.
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Santa Claus conquers the Martians: Martians kidnap Santa and two children. Upon returning to Mars, Santa and the children convert the Martian children to unstoppable Yuletide joy.
The littlest angel: Musical adaptation of the popular Christmas story by Charles Tazewell about a little angel who earns his wings only after he learns that the spirit of giving is really more important than the gift itself.
Scrooge: British film version of Charles Dickens'...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop.
The talk of the town: A suspected murderer hides out with an unsuspecting professor and his landlady, and...