Deborah Kerr
Series
Criterion collection volume 173
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
8) Quo vadis
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In Nero's Rome, Christianity and empire collide when a field general falls for a devout slave.
10) The chalk garden
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The chalk garden, a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast.
11) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas." --container.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Miles is the bored wife of a British civil servant. When Mr. Miles introduces her to American writer Maurice Bendrix at one of the couple's cocktail parties, she is unable to deny her attraction to him, or to resist his interest in her.
13) The sundowners
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
14) The gypsy moths
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
15) Hold the dream
Series
Woman of substance trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Having grown up despising everything British, a young Birdie Quilty leaves her hometown hoping to join the IRA, but naively gets caught up with a Nazi spy. She is eventually helped to escape authorities by a British officer who has fallen in love with her.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.