Roland Young
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Charles Laughton stars as a stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, who is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Braving the deep, dark jungle and barren, scorching desert of Africa, a young woman, Kathy, her faithful guide, Umbopa and the Great White Hunter Quatermain retrace the steps of her father who mysteriously disappeard while on a quest to find the legendary King Solomon's Mines. But their search is suddenly halted when the tribal chieftain who's imprisoned Kathy's father tries to prevent the trio from finding him--and the elusive treasure trove of...
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When a young prince is accused of a crime that could embroil him in international scandal, debonair supersleuth Sherlock Homes comes to his aid, and quickly discovers that behind the incident lurks a criminal mastermind eager to reduce Western civilization to anarchy.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. The elderly lady is very wealthy and very lonely. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her. The family hopes that by winning her affection, they can eventually...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Faithless (1932): Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Lovers courageous (1932): Englishman and family black sheep travels the world working odd jobs while dreaming of being a playwright. He meets an admiral's daughter and they fall in love, but he's poor and she's engaged to a blustery aristocrat who thinks only of hunting.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a Philadelphia socialite plans to marry for the second time, her former husband, who has agreed to get the story of her wedding for a tabloid, shows up at her mansion.
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...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Next time we love (1936): A young married couple's relationship becomes strained when he is assigned overseas as a foreign correspondent and she becomes a major stage star.
You gotta stay happy (1948): Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. Somehow, she persuades him to take...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Here is my heart (1934): When a wealthy radio crooner falls for an icy Russian princess, he goes undercover as a hotel waiter in order to gain access to her suite, and her heart.
Mississippi (1935): A disgraced Southern gentleman lands a job singing on a riverboat.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. But he mets Susan Trimble who lives in the house and who is strictly against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from it's construction in 1804 until present day.