Wilfrid Hyde-White
1) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With good reason to believe that Captain Grant, skipper of the S.S. Brittania, is still alive, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, sets out to rescue him. They face a series of hair-raising incidents as they travel the 37th parallel.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Sellers stars as criminal mastermind Dodger Lane, a model inmate living a life of luxury in Huntleigh Prison until he and his cellmates hatch a plan for the perfect robbery. Now all they have to do is escape from jail, steal a sultan's diamonds from a military convoy and break back into prison before their release the next morning. But even with the help of a phony vicar, Dodger's buxom finacé and one felonious mum, will the perfect alibi...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A timid American soldier bears a striking resemblance to a famous British Colonel. The Military Intelligence decides to use the poor chap as a pawn and recruit the naive soldier to impersonate the legendary Colonel, who's highly targeted by the Nazi assassins.
Series
Criterion collection volume 294
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A strict English schoolteacher is forced into retirement and begins to doubt himself and his life.
8) My fair lady
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
9) Ada
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A Depression-era tale of corruption and power. Good ol' country boy Bo Gillis is elected governor based solely on smear tactics engineered by crooked party boss Sylvester Marin. Married to Ada, an ambitious call girl he met during the campaign, Bo soon discovers he's only a puppet with Marin pulling the strings. So when Ada convinces her husband to stand up and fight back, it leads to car bombings and blackmail as Marin battles the Gillises for control...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the Joseph Conrad novel of the same name, 1952’s inimitable OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS, directed by **Oscar**-winning director Carol Reed features Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) Ralph Richardson (Peer Gynt, Falstaff). Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man is on the run from a scandal in Makassar. He finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over his desire for the tribal chief’s daughter....
12) Elephant boy
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
As Kipling's Toomai of the elephants, 13-year-old Sabu storms the jungle with his pachyderm pal, instantly becoming a legend.
Publisher
Craze Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1970.
Language
English
Description
Sir Guy Grand adopts homeless bum Youngman to be heir to his obscene wealth, and immediately begins bringing him into the intricacies of the family business, which is to prey upon people's greed by use of the vast holdings of the Grand empire. They leave no stone unturned as sporting events, restaurants, art galleries, and traditional pheasant hunts turn into lurid displays of bad manners and profiteering. Things climax at the social event of the...