George Stevens
4) Annie Oakley
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Energetic biographical drama based on the life and legend of sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her on-off relationship with Wild Bill Hickock.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson (and murder; one man was lost). Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley ...which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap. As Lightcap's unwelcome guests, Nora and Leopold drag the professor, willy-nilly, from pure legal theory to impure legal practice.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook has endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel. They spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic.
8) Swing time
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
9) Shane
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A drifter and retired gunfighter comes to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun.
10) Alice Adams
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
11) Gunga Din
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India, and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier.
12) I remember mama
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
Publisher
Triton Multimedia
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Love affair (1939): "Superior comedy-drama about a shipboard romance whose continuation onshore is interrupted by unforseen circumstances." --Maltin.
Penny serenade (1941): Quintessential soap opera with Dunne and Grant as a couple who adopt a baby after their unborn baby dies.
14) On our merry way
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A pair of impoverished swing band musicians attempt to change their luck by rigging a talent contest.
16) Giant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Texas rancher Bick Benedict, his society wife, and three generations of their land-rich Texas sons and daughters as their family rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations. A monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry, and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
18) Swing time
Series
Criterion collection volume 979
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their romance with humor and clears the floor for the movie's showstopping dance scenes, in which Astaire and Rogers take seemingly effortless flight in a virtuosic fusion of ballroom and tap styles. Buoyed...
19) Swing time
Series
Criterion collection volume 979
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their romance with humor and clears the floor for the movie's showstopping dance scenes, in which Astaire and Rogers take seemingly effortless flight in a virtuosic fusion of ballroom and tap styles. Buoyed...
Series
Studio classic volume 15
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook have endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel as they spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic.