Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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English
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A young aspiring actress becomes the secretary to an aging star and uses everyone to get to the top. From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo. Bonus features include: full screen theatrical feature; commentary by author Sam Staggs; theatrical trailer; and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
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Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
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English
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Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century a young widow and her daughter move into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
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Language
English
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Description
"In Joseph L. Mankiewicz's devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued...
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Praetorius, believing in the power of the mind to heal as well as traditional medical therapies, is challenged to defend his unorthodox philosophy before the medical board and must also convince his new wife that he married her for love, not out of pity for her unwed, pregnant, suicidal state.
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English
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Description
Times Square is all a bustle with petty crooks, lazy cops, and especially, gamblers. Gamblers are everywhere, but Nathan Detroit--who maintains the "Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"--Is short the $1000 he needs to secure a site for a fleet of big players coming into town. Nathan's other problem is his burlesque showgirl fiancée, Miss Adelaide. Her fourteen-year long engagement and Nathan's failure to give up the gambling...
9) Sleuth
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author of detective fiction Andrew Wyke lives a wealthy but lonely life in a grand 16th century mansion. Receiving a visit from hairdresser Milo Tindle, who happens to be his wife's lover, Andrew is clear from the onset that he is aware of the infidelity, but keen to turn the misfortune so it benefits all three parties. Hatching a scheme to involve Milo in a cunning robbery against himself in order to claim insurance monies in lieu of...
10) Sleuth
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke invites lower-class hairdresser Milo Tindle to his elegant English mansion to discuss Milo's affair with Wyke's wife. But when Andrew proposes that Milo participate in a robbery scheme to benefit them all, the two rivals find themselves locked in an increasingly devious duel of wits and deceptions.
11) Cleopatra
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Taylor stars as the ambitious queen of Egypt whose involvement with Marc Anthony and Julius Caesar led to her eventual downfall and suicide.
13) 5 fingers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Turkey, the valet of the British ambassador offers the German ambassador priceless documents about the Allies for fantastic fees. But the British soon suspect the leaks and dispatch an investigator to learn the spy's identity. Based on the memoirs of a German agent.
14) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
16) Mannequin
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A lonely, wealthy magnate falls for a married factory worker who desperately wants to better her station.
Series
Studio classic volume 27
Language
English
Description
Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to which husband's been stolen.
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
20) Guys and dolls
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
Musical comedy about the romancing of a beautiful Salvation Army missionary on a bet by a New York gentleman gambler. What initally begins as a bet, however, turns into true love.
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