Anne Baxter
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young aspiring actress becomes the secretary to an aging star and uses everyone to get to the top. From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo. Bonus features include: full screen theatrical feature; commentary by author Sam Staggs; theatrical trailer; and more.
3) I confess
Language
English
Description
A priest is conflicted between upholding the sanctity of the confessional and breaking his vow when he is framed for the murder confessed to him by someone else.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued...
Language
English
Description
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
9) Yellow sky
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A band of robbers are running from the law, and they find an almost abandoned town. An old prosecutor and his granddaughter have been living there. Realizing that they have gold, the robbers have a plan of taking it, but one robber turns against them.
10) Homecoming
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
11) East of Eden
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
13) The razor's edge
Series
Studio classic volume 30
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full frame format.
Language
English
Description
A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John J. Bramble, the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner and chambermaid who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel and his German staff. Posing as the hotel's waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report the general's plans to the Allies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A walk in the sun (1945): An isolated farmhouse in Italy is being held by the Nazis. A lone American battalion has orders to capture it ... at any cost. As they prepare to attack, each of the infantrymen reflects on whether he has what it takes to accomlish the mission - and live. -- We dive at dawn (1943): The exhausted crew of the British submarine, sea Tiger, must rally for one final, desperate mission: to sink the German battleship, Brandenburg....