William Wyler
Series
Language
English
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Formats
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Audrey Hepburn's portrays of a modern-day princess, rebelling against royal obligations, exploring Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Audrey Hepburn won an **Academy Award,** a **BAFTA Award** and a **Golden Globe** for her performance. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival.**...
2) Ben-Hur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben Hur (Heston) struggles against Roman tyranny in 1st century Palestine.
4) The heiress
Language
English
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Description
"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family living in Indiana in 1862, showing their religious beliefs, their worldly temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
7) Mrs. Miniver
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly personifies grace under pressure at the homefront, while her husband serves in the British military.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.): In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Mrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): A family in a small English town struggles through the 1940 bombing of England by Germany.
Gigi (1958, widescreen, 115 min.): A musical set in Paris in which...
9) Dodsworth
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
10) Jezebel
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
11) The westerner
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.]
Language
English
Description
Walter Brennan's Academy Award winning portrayal of "Judge" Roy Bean, along with the Academy Award-nominated story. Judge Roy Bean is a hard-nosed judge who dispenses his own unique brand of justice. Cole Harden, a stranger accused of stealing horses, attempts to talk himself out of the hangman's noose and the two men end up with a grudging friendship, until Bean's deadly scheming against the homesteaders puts the two on opposite sides.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.): In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Mrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): A family in a small English town struggles through the 1940 bombing of England by Germany.
Gigi (1958, widescreen, 115 min.): A musical set in Paris in which...
13) Funny girl
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
"One of the most popular movie musicals ever made! FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar® for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus...
15) The big country
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The bold, sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries. As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
17) The little foxes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
An evil southern woman sets out to destroy everyone in the way of her goals of wealth and power.
19) The Westerner
Author
Language
English
Description
Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.