Michael Curtiz
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly, but inept Felix (Leo G. Carroll) and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre (Basil Rathbone), who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake....
3) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
5) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story of a struggle among individuals who have sought refuge in Casablanca after fleeing Nazi occupied Europe.
8) The Sea Hawk
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
House of wax (1953): A renowned wax sculptor is plunged into madness when an arsonist destroys his life's work.
Mystery of the wax museum (1933): A madman encases his victims in wax. (This film was the first horror film with a contemporary urban setting. Later remade as House of wax).
Publisher
Roan Group Archival Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
[Kennel murder case] A Philo Vance mystery, about an apparent suicide which Vance believes was really murder, tied to intrigue among rivals competing in a Long Island dog show.
[Nancy Drew, reporter] School newspaper reporter Nancy is determined to prove a girl innocent of murder charges.
13) The Comancheros
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Shot on location in Assisi, this films chronicles the life of one of the most beloved saints who ever lived. Francis Bernardone, popular son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ.
15) Santa Fe Trail
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
16) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
17) King Creole
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays a high school dropout who becomes involved with mobsters. Despite great adversity, he rises above his past and becomes a star entertainer and singer.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
20) The proud rebel
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Proud rebel Alan Ladd wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. Experience the warmth of a father's love and faith, the devotion of a boy for a dog, and the understanding of a strong woman.