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William Wyler
21) The collector
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn butterfly collector decides to add to his collection by kidnapping a beautiful girl and locking her up in hopes that she will fall in love with him.
22) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
23) The little foxes
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion...
25) Dead end
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
"On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--container.
28) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest...
29) The letter
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equaled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting cast, atmospheric cinematography and the artistry of three-time Academy Award winner William Wyler. Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Actress,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
32) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest...