Barbara Stanwyck
Series
Language
English
Description
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. One sleepless night, Cheryl Draper witnesses a young woman being strangled to death in an apartment across the street. She reports the killing to the police, but when the police arrive there's no body to be found. The policemen are convinced the Cheryl probably dreamt the murder and leave ignoring her pleas.
2) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to their gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Cattle rustler Wes Anderson has just delivered the eulogy at a funeral, his own. He was supposed to be hanged, dead and gone. But a mob put the noose around the wrong man's neck. Anderson escaped. And now he aims to settle the score with the vigilantes who arranged his necktie party.
4) Titanic
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A gripping re-enactment of the tragic 1912 sinking of the Titanic in which over 1,500 people lost their lives.
Publisher
VCI Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sierra Nevada Jones, a feisty young woman, attempts to stake her claim in the cattle business despite threats from greedy land grabbers and their hired killers. Undercover agent Farrell comes to her rescue, even though he is in the midst of a separate investigation to find out who's been provoking the local Indian tribes into attacking the whites.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on "her" farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the...
7) 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.
9) Ball of fire
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
p1998.
Language
English
Description
Cooper is a serious professor who enlists the help of Stanwyck, a New York nightclub burlesque queen, in compiling his encyclopedia. He doesn't know she is a wanted woman.
10) Stella Dallas
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
14) The violent men
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him.
Publisher
LaserLight
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Overlong but interesting social commentary, with naive Cooper hired to spearhead national goodwill drive benefiting corrupt politician Arnold. Wordy idealism can't bury good characterizations; usual Capra touches exulting populism." --Maltin.
Gary Cooper on film : a biography: a video look at the life and films of Cooper, a Hollywood legend.
16) Meet John Doe
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Gary Cooper portrays a former baseball player whose misfortunes have changed his life. Barbara Stanwyck, a news reporter, interviews "John Doe" (Cooper). Her report falls into the hands of a crooked politician who exploits "John Doe" by making him a good will ambassador in a phony political drive, leaving Cooper on the brink of suicide. This film represents director Frank Capra at his best."--container.
17) My reputation
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
18) Crime of passion
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Kathy Ferguson is an extraordinary woman, trapped in a decade that worships the ordinary. She's smart and witty, and an ace at her job. She's an advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name on billboards all over town. But Kathy makes a big mistake, she falls in love. After marrying Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, somewhere between the olive dip and the shiny waxed floors, she begins to realize that Bill wants nothing more than...
19) Golden boy
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A young and gifted violinist earns money for his education by prizefighting.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who seduces the married Assistant District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder. Her aunt's mansion is burglarized and the woman is murdered. Thelma calls the Assistant DA to help her cover up evidence that may incriminate her. When she emerges as the prime suspect, the infatuated Assistant DA tries to sabotage the prosecution.