Katharine Hepburn
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Albie and his best friend Chris want to come up with something special to celebrate the birthday of their late grandfather, something everyone will remember. When Granddad was young he flew through the air in a magnificent balloon using the name "The Great Sandusky." What better way to celebrate his life than to recreate that experience for all the world to see? So Albie and Chris decide to re-inflate the old balloon, but they can't do it alone. It...
5) Undercurrent
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Ann Hamilton is a professor's daughter who is a young bride married to an industrialist. She begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her. Neither can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway, whom she's never met but has been told so much about.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Miss Moffat is a spinster schoolteacher who inherits a house in a Welsh mining town. She finds the miners living in squalor and ignorance, and is determined to open a school to teach not only the children but also anybody from the village that is interested in learning. Aiding her is Mrs. Watty, a reformed thief, the young spinster Miss Ronberry, and John Goronwy Jones, who looks after the house. There is resistance to the idea of a school. Miss Moffat...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife Ethel. Soon after they are joined by their daughter Chelsea, her fiancée Bill, and his son Billy. The cantankerous Norman's unlikely bond with young Billy provides the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers' strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.
11) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn stars as a lonely secretary who travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love. She does, but with a very married man.
12) The Trojan women
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After the Greek victory in the Trojan War, all the Trojan warriors and princes are slain and the women and children are left to be divided among the conquerors. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will and despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache discovers that her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen desperately wields the arrogant beauty that leveled a city as she pleads for her life. In the end, it is the enduring dignity...
13) Love affair
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A man and a woman who are to marry other people meet on a ship, flirt, part, and discover that they are in love.
14) Mary of Scotland
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Historical drama about the ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England.
15) On Golden Pond
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999].
Language
English
Description
While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
16) Adam's rib
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
17) Sylvia Scarlett
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Sylvia Scarlett is a young woman who is forced to flee with her small-time crook father from Paris to London after her mother dies, and his swindling schemes catch up to him. Sylvia cuts her hair, dons drag, and dubs herself "Sylvester" to help them stay incognito from the law. While on the train to London, they meet a smarmy scoundrel. The trio of crooks team up and work it in London, until they get run out of town. The three hook up with a maid...
20) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.