Gene Lockhart
1) Rhubarb
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A millionaire dies and leaves his entire fortune, including a baseball team, to his cat Rhubarb. It's up to the team's publicist to keep thieves from taking the cat, convince the team Rhubarb is good luck, and help his fiancee, who's allergic to cats.
2) Carousel
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
A carny barker falls in love with a sweet millworker, but his wayward ways don't change enough to prevent his early death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, our hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue. Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Also known as "All That Money Can Buy."
Publisher
LaserLight DVD
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The James Dean story: film biography of the young actor, with interviews with the people that knew him.
The bells of Cockaigne: originally airing in 1953 as a TV drama on the Armstrong Circle Theater, this film provides a rare glimpse at a young Dean in a co-starring role. It is about a man who comes to the aid of a poor family when their child is stricken with illness.
Publisher
Loving the Classics
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband, a student on the G.I. Bill.
Publisher
LaserLight
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Overlong but interesting social commentary, with naive Cooper hired to spearhead national goodwill drive benefiting corrupt politician Arnold. Wordy idealism can't bury good characterizations; usual Capra touches exulting populism." --Maltin.
Gary Cooper on film : a biography: a video look at the life and films of Cooper, a Hollywood legend.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Reginald Owen portrays holiday humbug Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
12) Meet John Doe
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best."--container.
15) Edison, the man
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Views Lincoln's life, from his early days as a young woodsman to his election to the presidency in 1860. Includes his first love with Ann Rutledge, his marriage to Mary Todd, his early law practice, and his debates with Stephen Douglas.
17) The sea wolf
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Wolf Larsen is the tyrannical captain of a freighter, who would rather "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven". He lords over a roughneck recruit, two castaways and his crew in a cruel manner.
18) Riding high
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Musical remake of Broadway Bill, this film follows it so closely that stock footage from that film is included. Crosby is a racehorse owner whose nag has yet to win. Oliver Hardy is fun in rare solo appearance.
Series
Studio classic volume 34
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Gregory Peck is a haunted New York executive who defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama.
Series
Studio classic volume 26
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder.