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Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Mighty Memnon rules over nearly all the known world, who defeats his enemies in battle with the help of a beautiful sorceress. "Free tribes" form a fragile alliance to fight Memnon, and hire a trio of assassins to kill the sorceress and thus remove Memnon's advantage. The assassins are betrayed by the son of one of the tribal leaders, and Mathayus finds himself unable to kill Cassandra. Mathayus abducts the sorceress, who explains that Memnon was...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ma and Pa Kettle at the fair (1951): Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Ma and Pa Kettle on vacation (1953): The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1947 at Coney Island, down-on-her-luck actress Lora Meredith and her young daughter Susie meet coloured Annie Johnson and her daughter Sarah Jane. Annie is desperate for a place to live and offers to work as Lora's maid for food and lodging. Lora's luck begins to change as a result of their meeting and their two stories unfold across the years. However, Annie's problems start when Sarah Jane tries to pass as white.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The egg and I (1947): On their wedding night Bob informs his new bride Betty that he has bought a chicken farm. An abandoned chicken farm, to be exact, which is obvious when the two move in. Betty endures Bob's enthusiasm for the rural life, rustic inconveniences, and battling nature, but her patience is severely tested when glamorous neighbor Harriet Putnam seems to set her sights on Bob.
The further adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle (1949): The Kettles...
Series
Franchise collection volume 3
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein: Comedy meets horror when Bud and Lou encounter Frankenstein's monster, Dracula and The Wolf Man!
Mexican hayride: Bud and Lou head south of the border after getting mixed up in a phony oil stock scheme.
Abbott and Costello meet the killer, Boris Karloff: The boys meet up with Boris Karloff after a guest is murdered at their hotel.
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion: Bud and Lou head to Algeria on business...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Three smart girls: In Deanna Durbin's debut film, she stars as Penny Craig, who conspires with her two devoted sisters, Kay and Joan, to reunite their divorced parents. High jinks, hilarity, and wonderful songs ensue in Deanna's star-making performance as the girls let nothing stand in their way.
Something in the wind: It's a case of mistaken identity in this breezy romantic comedy that has Deanna performing in some of her most crowd-pleasing songs....
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932): The diabolic mind of Edgar Allan Poe meets Lugosi as a lunatic scientist scours Paris for a bride for his pet gorilla. Blurring the laws of evolution, he injects his female victims with gorilla blood and discards their ravaged bodies through a trapdoor in his sinister laboratory. When he finally finds the perfect mate, it is a race against time for her fiance to save her.
The black cat (1934): Blea Lugosi and Boris...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Includes 2 parodies of the horror genre and a film where Abbott and Costello pursue a man who swindled them into buying a fake movie studio. Also includes a compilation of classic routines from 18 of their most popular films; a tribute to their careers hosted by Jerry Seinfeld; and a behind-the-scenes look at the duo's popular films as they meet Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man.
Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: As American...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A collection of early films starring Gary Cooper.
Design for living: Ben Hecht adapted Noël Coward's stage comedy about artist Cooper and playwright March, best friends and Americans in Paris, and what happens when they both fall in love with the same woman.
Peter Ibbetson: Unusual fantasy-romance based on George du Maurier novel about sweethearts who are separated in childhood but whose destinies draw them together years later, and for all eternity.
The...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The night of the following day (1968): Professional criminals successfully kidnap a young girl from her wealthy family, but their plans become undone as they realize there is no trust between them.
The ugly American (1963): As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gangsters when she's left as an IOU for a debt.
Now and Forever: Shirley Temple stars as a little rich girl whose father, a jewel thief, comes to claim her from his late wife's relatives.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Man of the world (1931): A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle.
We're not dressing (1934): Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks.
Hands across the table (1935): A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Love before breakfast (1936): Kay bounces between boyfriend Bill...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
East side of heaven: A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
If I had my way: A good-natured construction worker named "Buzz" become a guardian to the orphaned daughter of his killed friend.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The complete series of films based on the popular Inner Sanctum Mystery radio show of the 1940's.
Calling Dr. Death: A distraught doctor is tormented by voices in his head that are urging him to end his unhappy marriage, forever.
Weird woman: Sorcery and superstition take a walk down the aisle when a professor marries a woman raised in the jungle by voodoo witchcraft practitioners and then dismisses her ominous warnings.
Dead man's eyes: When an...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Seven sinners (1940): Wayne shines as a handsome naval officer who sacrifices everything for the love of a cabaret singer with a mysterious past.
The shepherd of the hills (1941): As part of a family of Ozark moonshiners, Wayne is a simple man sworn to protect the land he loves and a secret that threatens to tear the community apart.
Pittsburgh (1942): Wayne stars with Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott in this patriotic rags-to-riches adventure...
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Night after night: A successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girls.
I'm no angel: The bold Tira works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair.
Goin' to town: Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich and falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman.
Go west young man: A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
My little chickadee: Rightly suspected...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Morocco: a cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love.
Blonde Venus: an aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment.
The devil is a woman: at the turn of the century, in the port town of...
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