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Series
Studio classic volume 13
Description
An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.
Series
Pub. Date
1947
Description
Magazine writer Schuyler 'Phil' Green, a widower who has just arrived with his mother and young son in New York, is assigned the task of writing an expose of anti-Semitism. As he searches for a new angle on the topic, he decides to pass as a Jew for several months, which causes no end of trouble for his ailing mother and young son. This film puts the 'gentleman's agreement' among gentiles to discriminate against Jews directly in the spotlight.
Series
Pub. Date
1957.
Description
Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.
Series
Studio classic volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
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
Description
A spaceship lands in Washington D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him...And soon realize that they may be all that stands between...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
At the turn of the century, a young widow moves with her daughter 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!
Series
Description
Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old daughter. She writes about the remarkable account of their...
Series
Studio classic volume 12
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Disguised as Zorro, a sword-wielding mystery man dressed in black, Don Diego Vega works to restore his father, the deposed Alcalde, back to power and return tax money stolen by the villanous tyrant--while finding time to romance the tyrant's beautiful niece.
13) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Series
20th Century Fox studio classics volume 17
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
17) Peyton Place
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Series
Studio classic volume 23
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A fact-based story about a Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve's husband, confused by his wife's behavior seeks help from a psychiatrist. The doctor finds that each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existence but none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is cured.
20) Zorba the Greek
Series
Studio classics volume 21
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.