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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
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Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
6) The holiday
Series
Language
English
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Description
An iconoclastic young man engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Hepburn hosts this glorious salute. Featuring clips from Captains Courageous, Bad Day at Black Rock, Adam's Rib and other Tracy hits alongside reminiscenses from Frank Sinatra, Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Taylor and more great stars. The Spencer Tracy Legacy follows Tracy's stellar career.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fortieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
12) The rainmaker
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blosssoms into full womanhood.
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
She adjusts a stocking on one slim, elegant leg. He wanders in, admiring the view. She glances up...and it's magic. It stayed magic for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn for 25 years, from that first movie meeting in Woman of the Year through eight more classic films. Cinema fans who have long celebrated the remarkable couple's on-and-off screen partnership have more to celebrate with Tracy & Hepburn: The Definitive Collection, the only place to...
15) Bringing up Baby
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
16) Adam's rib
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
17) Summertime
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
18) On Golden Pond
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Collector's set.
Language
English
Description
Since 1935, the National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation, and public dissemination of the permanent records of the United States government. Select materials, culled from the millions of pieces making up the National Archives' popular holdings, have been assembled to produce War on the Homefront, a cinematic recounting of the stateside war effort waged by civilian men and women and the war measures - from gas rationing...