Olivia De Havilland
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
4) The heiress
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
2 DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler's film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
Until the day she died in 1984, Anna Anderson claimed she was truly Grand Duchess Anastasia, the sole surviving child of Russian Czar Nicolas II. Many believed her. Even for those who did not, her story of royalty, flight from execution and years of struggle to reclaim her heritage, was a great dramatic mystery.
Series
Language
English
Description
Charlotte was a Southern belle preparing to elope with her married lover-- until he was murdered. Now, 37 years later, she lives alone in her mansion, slowly going mad as she is haunted by the memory of the unsolved crime and tormented by the local townspeople who believe she killed him. But when her cousin comes to visit, the skeletons begin to tumble out of the closet-- and that's when the terror really begins.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple becomes caught up in a mystery involving poisoning and murder on a baronial estate (Murder with mirrors). While on vacation Miss Marple is plunged into murder involving an incriminating photo (Caribbean mystery). Lavinia Fullerton (Helen Hayes) is killed en route to Scotland Yard where she was to disclose the name of a murderer in her village. Luke Williams takes up the case (Murder is easy).
11) The heiress
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
12) Devotion
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sisters Emily and Charlotte Bronte lived to write, weaving tales rich with characters, incident and passion from the poor Yorkshire vicarage they called home. Devotion tells the story -- with more than a dash of literary license -- of these daring women who created Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
16) The snake pit
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A woman finds herself in a state mental institution and must spend several months under the care of her compassionate doctor before she can face the troubling secrets of her past and be cured.
17) The male animal
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
19) The Swarm
Pub. Date
©2002, ©1978.
Edition
Unrated theatrical version.
Language
English
Description
A swarm of killer bees attacks the United States.
20) The proud rebel
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Proud rebel Alan Ladd wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. Experience the warmth of a father's love and faith, the devotion of a boy for a dog, and the understanding of a strong woman.