Alan Hale
2) The Sea Hawk
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
4) Algiers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Charles Boyer plays Pepe le Moko, a notorious thief hiding out in the Casbah, who falls in love with a wealthy tourist, played by Heddy Lamarr.
7) Robin Hood
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"A big-screen spectacle that ranks as one of the monumental accomplishments of the era, 'Robin Hood' is a timeless story of romance and intrigue, staged on a herculean scale. Its sets were erected by an army of 500 carpenters and towered 90 feet in the air, covering ten acres of land, historically accurate to the smallest detail. Robin Hood recreates 'the chivalry of England in all its glory' as it unveils the conflicts and betrayals that threaten...
Series
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
12) Virginia City
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A group of bush pilots from Northern Canada feel their patriotic spirit roused during Winston Churchill's famous "Blood, sweat and tears" radio speech to pump up the British/Allied morale. They decide to enlist as pilots, only to find their age and attitude working against them. Brian McLean needs to do things his way leads to tragedy and in the end he must find some way to redeem himself.
14) Of human bondage
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress. The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.
15) The good fairy
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel & in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde, " but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
In WW I, dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But is personal life has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancě until the war is over.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him. Zaniness ensues, focused on Kayes performing talents rather than the town's corruption.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"My Wild Irish Rose stars golden age of Hollywood tenor Dennis Morgan as turn-of-the-century tenor Chauncey Olcott, who brought When Irish eyes are smiling, Mother Machree and more beloved airs to eager theater audiences. Olcott's rise from tugboat skipper to minstrel man to star and composer, his relationships with two women--Lillian Russell (Andrea King) and true love Rose Donovan"--Container.