Leslie Howard
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Series
Language
English
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Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip Carey, a sensitive boy born with a clubfoot who is orphaned and raised by a religious aunt and uncle. Philip yearns for adventure, and at eighteen leaves home, eventually pursuing a career as an artist in Paris. When he returns to London to study medicine,...
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English
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Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
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English
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An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mid-1939, both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith asks his students to come with him to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they join him in his fight. However, things get complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, whom is secretly...
11) Of human bondage
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Philip Carey, a young medical student in Edwardian London, becomes infatuated with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress, an affair which leads them both into mutual destruction.
12) Pygmalion
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A cranky professor takes a bet that he can turn flower-seller Eliza Doolittle into a 'proper lady' in no time.
13) Pygmalion
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
14) Of human bondage
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The story of the ill-fated romance between a well-to-do club-footed medical student and a vulgar waitress.
16) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
17) Of human bondage
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress. The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.
18) 49th parallel
Series
Criterion collection volume 376
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the voice-over proclaims, the 49th parallel is the only undefended frontier in the world. The parallel is the goal of a small group of Nazis, survivors of a U-boat that has been spotted and sunk in Hudson Bay, deep in Canadian waters. The United States is not yet at war with Germany, and if Corporal Hirth and his six crew members can reach it, they can be repatriated to Germany with no fuss. But their trek across Canada becomes a fierce struggle...
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