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(0)Laurence Olivier
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1977
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : col., digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a Soho restaurant, a diverse group of people gather for dinner. Four partygoers celebrating a birthday, a bitter couple snapping over supper, an elderly working class businessman, and Ernest, a young Polish emigre. Dining separately, they find their evening disturbed by an extraordinary woman, Lady Pitts, who talks aloud and sings even louder while knocking back double brandies and handing out invitations to tea at the home of her husband Sir Joseph....
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Classic story of passion, hatred and revenge, with Olivier starring as Heathcliff and Oberon as Cathy. Their love affair "ends" when Cathy marries wealthy Edgar (Niven), but Heathcliff vows revenge.
4) Marathon man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peck stars as Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who murdered Jews during the war, and Olivier is the man who sets out to find him and ruin his plans for a revival of the Third Reich made possible by devious medical means.
6) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (196 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
7) Henry V
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
8) Hamlet
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000], c1948
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Perseus is the mortal son of Zeus, who sets out to fulfill his destiny by rescuing beloved Andromeda from the wrath the goddess Thetis. Perils await Perseus time and again. In order to fulfill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, and answering riddles.
10) Richard III
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and mustering a final defense for his realm at the Battle...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (817 min.) : sound, color & black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The borrowers: The peach and quiet of rural life is turned topsy-turvy for everyone when a boy visiting from the city discovers a family of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home!
Little Lord Fauntleroy: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Where the red fern grows: Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming...
12) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.