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Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A burned-out professor and his volatile yet seductive wife battle it out in front of, and eventually with, their unsuspecting, mild-mannered guests.
"***1/2... scored 13 Oscar nominations, and walked away with five statues. Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
Language
English
Formats
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Publisher
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On April 20, 1992, Roger Taylor, Brian May, and John Deacon, the surviving members of Queen, took to the stage at Wembley Stadium for the start of one of the biggest events in rock history, which the band had organized to pay tribute to their former colleague, the incomparable Freddie Mercury. Queen was joined by some of the greatest musical talent in the world to celebrate Freddie's life and work and to increase public awareness of AIDS, the disease...
8) Lassie
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A collie is sold by her poor family only to make her way through storms, hunger and peril in order to return to her young master; a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures; Lassie's new adventures start with his puppyhood and span over time and end up at a family reunion ; a doctor rescues Lassie from a cruel master only to discover Lassie's fear of water.
Author
Language
English
Description
The first authorized biography of the Hollywood icon draws on unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with Taylor's closest friends and family to tell the story of her remarkable life and career, from her rise to fame at age twelve, through her eight marriages, and her efforts to fight AIDS.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. Biographer Mann uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. And he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how two iconic stars changed the image of marriage forever. From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through...
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