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Dick Powell
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Set during the Battle of Atlantic during World War II, tells the story of the cat and mouse hunt between the USS Haynes, a destroyer escort and a German U-Boat. For the Americans, a former Merchant Mariner, now captain, saw his wife killed when his freighter was torpedoed by the Germans. For the Germans, a veteran U-Boat commander who sees no honor in the German aims of the war. Both of these highly experienced men must now battle each other, knowing...
8) Pitfall
Publisher
Film Chest
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A film noir about an insurance salesman whose brief affair with a convict's girlfriend leads to blackmail and murder.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy society woman Joan Bradford finds high society boring. With her father's secret permission, she slips out of a New Year's Eve party where her engagement to Jelliffe Travis is to be announced and, on impulse, enters a Chinese restaurant. Seated alone, she soon joins the party at the next table and meets Bob Lane, an employee of a window washing company. Afraid that her money will scare Bob away, she rents an apartment and pretends to be poor,...
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 2
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Hope springs eternal when an office clerk mistakenly believes he's won a coffee slogan challenge and spends the 'prize money'.
12) Dames
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway shows.
13) Cry danger
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Rocky is an innocent man released from prison. He's on the hunt for the people who framed him. Delong is a disabled veteran who produced the evidence that led to Rocky's release. He now wants part of the $100,000 in exchange for his help. However, after serving five years of a life-sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Rocky has a different plan. He wants to bring the real crooks to justice and clear the name of his friend Danny Morgan, who's unjustly...
14) Murder, my sweet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A down-on-his-luck private detective searches for an ex-convict's missing girlfriend and finds himself in a dark world of mayhem and murder.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? A newspaper reporter wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. But then a mysterious man gives him the day early news, it turns his life upside-down. Racing to prevent a headline predicting his own death, he gets mixed up with a beautiful fortune teller and her overprotective uncle.
19) Hard to get
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of an oil magnate makes trouble for a gas station attendant.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
This collection features 21 song-and-dance spectaculars staged and directed by Busby Berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930's. Included are excerpts from "42nd Street" (1933), "Gold diggers of 1933" (1933), "Fashions of 1934" (1934), "In Caliente" (1933), "Footlight parade" (1933), "Wonder Bar" (1934), "Dames" (1934), "Gold diggers of 1935" (1935), and "Gold diggers of 1937" (1937).