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(0)Barbara Stanwyck
1) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
4) California
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
California, a land of promise and splendor that lay at the end of a long and bitter trail! Director John Farrow's blazing Technicolor adventure finds screen legends Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck drawn together at the dawn of the Gold Rush. With Irish farmer Michael Fabian and pistol-slinging saloon gal Lily Bishop at his side, Army deserter Jonathan Trumbo leads a perilous wagon train to the West Coast. There, he finds that rich landowner Pharaoh...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A newspaper reporter concocts a fictional story about a man named John Doe, telling his intention to commit suicide over the sorry state of mankind. As the story grows, the public demands to know the real John Doe, the newspaper hires a down and out drifter to pretend to be him. As the newspaper prospers from the John Doe story, the drifter has a change of heart from deceiving the public.
7) Ball of fire
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
[Full screen edition].
Language
English
Description
The Barkleys are the wealthiest and most powerful family in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, owning and controlling cattle herds, gold mines, citrus groves, and logging camps. Follow their joys and heartache in this Western soap opera.
9) Titanic
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Determined to remove her family from the superficial, high-society world in which her husband is engrossed, a woman flees to America along with her children on the R.M.S. Titanic. Learning of her plan her husband buys a steerage ticket in the hopes of reconciling with his family. But when fate steps in, the family faces an unimaginable challenge and the possibility of separation from each other forever.
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Return once more to the Barkley Ranch for the fourth and final season of the television Western favorite. Victoria Barkley and her close-knit family-sons Jarrod, Nick and Heath, and daughter Audra, are back for twenty-six episodes of high drama and thrilling adventure.
11) Roustabout
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Elvis is stranded with a carnival troupe while his motorcycle is being repaired. The owner realizes he just might be the one who can save the circus.
14) Double indemnity
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
100th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
16) Double indemnity
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
70th anniversary limited edition.
Language
English
Description
A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager. It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general₂s concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.
18) Meet John Doe
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After being interviewed by a news reporter, a down-on-his-luck tramp is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a political stunt. He becomes a national hero, and discovers the plot to use him.
20) Clash by night
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend.