Burgess Meredith
1) Rocky
Series
[Rocky films] volume 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stallone stars as an unknown boxer from the slums of Philadelphia who is given a once-in-a-lifetime shot at the world heavyweight title.
MPAA rating: PG.
2) Rocky II
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the rematch of the century as Rocky Balboa takes on Apollo Creed in this powerful follow-up to one of the most acclaimed movies in film history. After club fighter Rocky Balboa goes the distance with the world heavyweight champion, boxing fans clamor for a rematch. But Rocky, having sustained massive injuries in the bout, announces his retirement. Though he tries to make a new life for himself, Rocky realizes that he can't escape his true calling....
3) Rocky III
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Rocky Balboa fights his way into the hearts of millions, life couldn't be better. He scores ten consecutive wins, lands lucrative endorsement contracts and becomes famous throughout the world. But when Clubber Lang KOs Rocky in a humiliating defeat, it becomes apparent that the "Italian Stallion" has lost his edge. Considering hanging up his gloves, Rocky receives encouragement from an unlikely ally: his old nemesis, Apollo Creed. With Creed's...
7) Rocky V
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon returning home from his latest triumph, Rocky Balboa learns that all his money has been lost by an unscrupulous financial advisor. To make matters worse, his fight-related injuries force his retirement from the ring. So Rocky, his wife Adrian and his son Rocky, Jr. move to their old, low-rent neighborhood in South Philadelphia. There, the fighter must resolve the deep-rooted resentment held by his son, a bitterness that grows when Rocky trains...
9) Thumbelina
Publisher
Starmaker
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Tiny Thumbelina, so small she sleeps in a match-box, is almost forced to marry a toad or a crotchety mole before she finds her true love.
10) Second chorus
Publisher
[Distributed by] Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A musical dance comedy in which two collegiate trumpet players (Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith) vie for the affections of a young lady (Paulette Goddard), who becomes secretary to a band led by Artie Shaw, and depicts their antics to become members of the band.
12) Of mice and men
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
The tragic story of two itinerant ranch hands on the run in California's Salinas Valley--one is the lifelong companion to the other, a retarded but innocent giant.
13) Stay away, Joe
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Just when Navaho rodeo star Joe Lightcloud has it all figured out, his plans go up in smoke. His idea about raising cattle on the reservation is a good one. But you know that great chow Joe and everyone else enjoyed at the community party last night? Turns out somebody's barbecued the herd's only bull! Where Joe goes, trouble follows.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A 40,000-year-old race of snake people resurfaces, and, with help from Serpentor, Destro, Baroness, and Dr. Mindbender, plans to eliminate all of mankind and rebuild Cobra-La. Once rulers of Earth, the snake people were driven underground by ice-age temperatures. While in exile, they developed a plant whose spores turn ordinary men into mindless, weak animals. Humankind's very existence depends on G.I. Joe.
15) Idiot's delight
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
In this comedy set in Europe between the wars, Clark Gable portrays a song-and-dance man performing with his troupe at an Alpine inn, where he encounters Norma Shearer, a mysterious blonde who may or may not be a Russian countess.
16) Rocky
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A club fighter seemingly going nowhere, gets his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner when fate puts him in the ring with the world heavyweight champion.
18) Torture garden
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman, Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
The night America trembled (1957): Centers on the tale of the 1939 Halloween night radio broadcast of The Mercury Theater's "The War of The Worlds." Narrated by Edward R. Murrow, this presented a dramatization of the studio end of the broadcast as well as audience reactions through vignettes.
The Martian eyes (1951): Professor Lyman tells fantastic tales of Martians living among us to the enthralled pations of a local bar.
20) Burnt offerings
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Finding it hard to believe they rented a sprawling country mansion for $900, a family soon finds themselves surrounded by an evil, hypnotic, occult force that feeds on torture, fear and murder.