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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From legendary Oscar-winning director King Vidor (The crowd, Duel in the sun) comes an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia: Bird of paradise. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is betrothed to a neighboring native prince, and is soon to be married. With little thought to the future, Johnny and Luana...
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Language
English
Formats
Description
A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood director sets out to discover what tragic life feels like first hand, befriends a beautiful cynic, and learns that comedy is more important than pathos.
10) The great moment
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a nineteenth century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Running away from home after his stepfather threatens him with reform school, young Frankie attends a concert by Jascha Heifetz that turns his life around. Stumbling upon a settlement house where free music lessons are given to the poor. Frankie studies the violin until the school's financial woes inspire him to organize a benefit concert headlined by Heifetz to prevent the school from being closed.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"When five sadistic cowboys stumble on a small Apache camp and discover a vein of gold ore, they resort to murder, killing the Apaches, men, women, and children, leaving only one survivor. The men deep the young woman alive in hopes she will lead them to more gold. Only Pitcalin among the five men shows any remorse or kindness to the prisoner. When an Apache brave discovers the massacre and buries the dead, he begins to track the murderers and brings...
14) Dead end
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 46
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all-- man.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Joel McCrea brings law and order to the range in Stranger on Horseback . McCrea portrays a circuit judge Richard Thorne, who comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds. There he finds the town and surrounding area under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman (John McIntire). Despite wholehearted opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman s spoiled son, Tom (Kevin McCarthy) for murder and smokes...
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
After killing a man in self-defense, Bat Masterson flees to Dodge City where he finds his brother Ed running for sheriff. When Ed is killed, Bat takes his brother's place on the ballot and finds himself torn between his friends and his duties as sherriff.
18) Wichita
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
One of the final cycle of classical westerns of the mid to late Fifties which culminated in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. McCrea plays the legendary Wyatt Earp whose reluctant acceptance of the role of town marshal brings him into conflict with cattle interests and the town's businessmen.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
"Money makes the world go 'round, or so Gerry (Claudette Colbert) believes when she decides to divorce her struggling husband (Joel McCrea) to support him by marrying a millionaire."
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