Mark Robson
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound for Switzerland,...
2) Earthquake
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
A major earthquake levels Los Angeles and upsets the lives of a rugged construction engineer, his spoiled wife, his mistress, his father-in-law, and a suspended policeman.
Series
Studio classic volume 10
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary that led a group of children through war-torn China in the 1930's. Nominated for an Academy Award, Best Director.
4) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
11) Champion
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Leopard Man (66 min.): a nightclub performer in New Mexico takes a leashed leopard into the club as a publicity gimmick. But her rival, angered by the attempt to upstage, scares the animal and it bolts. In the days that follow, people are mauled. Includes commentary by William Friedkin and theatrical trailer.
The Ghost Ship (69 min.): Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees...
14) My foolish heart
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
An impetuous girl becomes pregnant, then marries her best friend's fiancé in order to hide the truth of a previous illicit romance with another man.
15) Cat people
Series
Criterion collection volume 833
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-disc DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A Serbian immigrant living in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1236
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO's B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 835
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...
Series
Criterion collection volume 835
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give them, but there are prices for fame and fortune-- addictions...