Frank Borzage
2) Moonrise
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1948.
Language
English
Description
Branded the son of a killer, Danny accidentally kills a man who taunts him beyond endurance. Haunted by guilt and with the law closing in, Danny realizes he must confront the consequences of his actions. Based on Theodore Strauss' novel "Moonrise." Nominated for Best Sound Recording at the **Academy Awards.** *"This is an overlooked gem from one of Hollywood's under-the-radar mavericks, and a tasty slice of small-town noir." - Chris Vognar, **Dallas...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Domineering maestro Leopold exerts a Svengali-like control over Myra, a talented young pianist. Frustrated by Leopold's domineering nature, the girl abandons her professional career and marries a humble farmer. Years later, haunted by regret, Myra returns to face her former mentor, to prove that she was, and continues to be, a better musician than he ever credited her with being.
5) The circle
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married woman invites for the weekend her husband's mother, who ran away with her lover 30 years before, in order to see whether she was happy with her decision.
6) Lucky star
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary....
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A young Italian girl on the run from the police captures the heart of a handsome and passionate artist. When she's caught and sent to prison, he is left only with the portrait he painted of her--and the hope that they will be together again.
11) Lazybones
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
15) The Spanish Main
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor and sentenced to hang for trespassing. But Van Horn stages a breakout with other unjustly incarcerated prisoners, resurfacing as the rakish Barracuda to command the pirate waterways, rescue fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenge the wrongs done to him.
16) Moonrise
Series
Criterion collection volume 921
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul...
18) Strange cargo
Series
Joan Crawford collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Gable and Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story that explores the lures of the flesh and the transcendence of the spirit. Fighting each other and the elements, the stars imbue this provocative adventure with audacity, power and passion....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1072
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, History Is Made at Night is a sublime paean to love from Frank Borsage, classic Hollywood's supreme poet of carnal and spiritual desire. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)--and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1072
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Suffused with intoxicating romanticism, History Is Made at Night is a sublime paean to love from Frank Borsage, classic Hollywood's supreme poet of carnal and spiritual desire. On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an unhappy socialite (Jean Arthur) is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger (Charles Boyer)--and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents...