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Stephen Vincent Benét
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."
Series
Griffith masterworks volume 2
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln: directed by D.W. Griffith, this Lincoln effort was one of the great talking films of the post-silent film era. These brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, his affair with Ann Rutledge, his courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln/Douglas debates. His presidency and the Civil War are followed in more detail, and the film concludes with the assassination.
The struggle: A departure from the historial...
Series
Greatest classic films collection volume 2
Language
English
Description
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954): Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers'...
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"For more than 100 years, science fiction writers have told tales of alien encounters and fascinating technologies and warned of the dangers of dystopian governments. From Victorians experimenting with time travel to pioneers exploring the depths of space, the stories collected here are a tribute to the imagination fo the inventors of the modern science fiction genre"--adapted from back cover.