50 Movies – The Fabulous Forties

Call Number: DVD00841

Director/Distributor: by Yul Brynner; Scott Brady; Richard Rober; Laslo Benedek; Fred Astaire; Paulette Goddard; Artie Shaw; H C Potter; Robert Cummings; Richard Basehart; Arlene Dahl; Anthony Mann; Roland Young; Joan Blondell; Billie Burke; Roy Del Ruth; Anne Baxter; Ralph Bellamy; Ruth Warrick; John Brahm; Lloyd Bridges; Barbara Payton; John Hoyt; Richard Fleischer; Edward G Robinson; Judith Anderson; Allene Roberts; Delmer Daves; Mary Beth Hughes; Hugh Beaumont; Edmund MacDonald; Sam Newfield; Sabu; Joseph Calleia; John Qualen; Zoltan Korda; Rudyard Kipling; Ralph Byrd; Lyle Latell; Jack Lambert; John Rawlins; Hedy Lamarr; George Sanders; Louis Hayward; Edgar G Ulmer; Edmond O’Brien; Pamela Britton; Luther Adler; Rudolph Maté; Jack Haley; Ann Savage; Barton MacLane; Frank McDonald; Betty Hutton; Barry Fitzgerald; Don Defore; Hal Walker; Robert Donat; Valerie Hobson; Walter Rilla; Harold S Bucquet; Lew Ayres; Lionel Barrymore; Laraine Day; Randolph Scott; Alan Curtis; Noah Beery; Ray Enright; Robert Cummings; Michèle Morgan; Peter Lorre; Arthur Ripley; George Raft; Ava Gardner; Victor McLaglen; Leonide Moguy; Gary Cooper; Barbara Stanwyck; Walter Brennan; Frank Capra; Vincent Price; Reed Hadley; Lynn Bari; Alfred L Werker; Cameron Mitchell; Audrey Long; Fuzzy Knight; Lew Landers; Johnny Downs; Gale Storm; Mantan Moreland; Jean Yarbrough; Stanley Holloway; Betty Warren; Margaret Rutherford; Henry Cornelius; Buster Crabbe; Charles B Middleton; Sheila Darcy; Harry Fraser; David Niven; Stanley Holloway; James Donald; Carol Reed; Gene Tierney; Bruce Cabot; George Sanders; Henry Hathaway; Susan Hayward; Michael O’Shea; Ralph Morgan; Alfred Santell; Jeff York; Martha O’Driscoll; Buster Keaton; Albert Rogell; Al Capp; Martha Scott; William Gargan; Edmund Gwenn; Tay Garnett; E G Morrison; John Hoy; Ray Reagan; Leopold Lindtberg; George Raft; Marie Windsor; Eduard Franz; Robert Florey; Leo B Gorcey; Bobby Jordan; Frankie Burke; Joseph H Lewis; Ronald Reagan; George Murphy; Joan Leslie; Michael Curtiz; Merle Oberon; Melvyn Douglas; Burgess Meredith; Ernst Lubitsch; Hedy Lamarr; Dennis O’Keefe; John Loder; Robert Stevenson; Cary Grant; Irene Dunne; Edgar Buchanan; George Stevens; Bela Lugosi; Suzanne Kaaren; Dave O’Brien; Jean Yarbrough; William Powell; Carole Lombard; Alice Brady; Gregory La Cava; Susan Hayward; Lee Bowman; Eddie Albert; Stuart Heisler; Dana Andrews; Anne Baxter; Walter Huston; Lewis Milestone; Barbara Stanwyck; Kirk Douglas; Van Heflin; Lewis Milestone; Harold Lloyd; Rudy Vallée; Edgar Kennedy; Preston Sturges; Cary Grant; Rosalind Russell; Ralph Bellamy; Howard Hawks; Mickey Rooney; Bonita Granville; Lewis Stone; Willis Goldbeck; Freddie Bartholomew; James Lydon; Edward Everett Horton; Ralph F Murphy; Patsy Kelly; ZaSu Pitts; Dennis O’Keefe; Gordon Douglas; James Stewart; Paulette Goddard; Art Carney; George Marshall; Susan Hayward; Robert Preston; Pedro Armendáriz; Stuart Heisler; Barbara Stanwyck; Michael O’Shea; Iris Adrian; William A Wellman; Mill Creek Entertainment.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.

Notes: 12-discs

Summaries

Disc 1:

Port of New York: A drug smuggler runs his operation through a New York yacht club, spreading his criminal operation through the use of ocean liners and their staff, to distribute the narcotics. A pair of undercover agents is assigned to track down the source of the narcotics and bring down the ring.

Second Chorus: Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor have spent seven years together in a college band. These two friendly but rival musicians aspire to join the famous Artie Shaw Orchestra.

The Black Book: After the French Revolution, the new republic government is formed and an operative of this new government is sent undercover to infiltrate the inner circle of Robespierre.The agent pretends to be a rogue, like Robespierre, with the intention of finding a certain black book containing the names of friends and foes alike of the French scoundrel.

Topper Returns: Topper encounters a sarcastic ghost who insists that our intrepid hero help her find her murderer.

Disc 2:

Guest in the House: A young woman, who is emotionally unstable, stays at the home of her physician where she ends up meeting his brother. The woman becomes obsessed with the man, in spite of the fact that he is happily married, and decides to do everything in her power to win him over and prove her love.

Trapped: A batch of counterfeit twenty dollar bills begin showing up that appear to be the work of Tris Stewart, a counterfeiter already behind bars. Hoping to track down the location of Stewart’s plates and the person using them, a prison break is arranged for Stewart with federal agents keeping an eye on his every move.

Red House: Pete Morgan is an aging farmer, who harbors some dark secrets, living with his sister and his adopted daughter. When the daughter asks her friend to help out with the chores, since Morgan cannot move as well anymore on his wooden leg, the young man begins taking a shortcut through the woods to the farm, passing a red house that Morgan forbids anyone to near.

The Lady Confesses: Just prior to their wedding, a groom and his bride-to-be discover that his first wife, who was missing and presumed dead, has turned up alive and back in town. Shortly after her sudden re-appearance, the wife is found dead and the husband is accused of her murder.

Disc 3:

Jungle Book: Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s story about Mowgli, a boy raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves after being lost there as an infant.

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma: Dick Tracy is called in to investigate a fur heist. Tracy thinks it may be a possible insurance swindle but soon finds out it is much more when his police informant turns up murdered.

The Strange Woman: A young woman who has lived with an abusive drunkard father decides that men are to be used for her benefit. She falls under the watchful eye of an older lumber magnate and accepts his marriage proposal.

D.O.A.: An accountant is given a poison and informed that he has a short time to live. He decides to use his remaining time to track down the source of the poison, find out who gave it to him and what the reason was for it.

Disc 4:

Treasure of Fear (aka: Scared stiff): On his latest assignment, a bumbling chess reporter, takes the wrong bus and ends up getting involved in some murders at a tavern run by a pair of strange brothers.

The Stork Club: After rescuing a wealthy elderly man from drowning, a young hat check girl at the Stork Club, is provided with a bank account and an apartment. Her boyfriend returns home from overseas and is suspicious of her new found wealth.

The Adventures of Tartu: A British soldier is recruited to infiltrate a German-run chemical factory inside Czechoslovakia and work with the local underground to sabotage it.

Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case: Dr. Kildare finds that he has a rival for his girlfriends attention. The rival, a brain surgeon, has several patients die immediately after surgery. Dr. Kildare must put aside his animosity to help diagnose the real reason for the deaths.

Disc 5:

Gung Ho!: Responsible for organizing a battalion to raid the Japanese-held Makim Island, Colonel Thorwald recruits his volunteers from the less-desirable prospects such as barroom brawlers, misfits and borderline psychos. Under his training and leadership, the battalion is forged into a tough fighting unit ready for the fierce battle.

The Chase: An unemployed veteran returns a wallet and gets an unexpected job as the chauffeur to a tough mobster.

Whistle Stop: A woman returns to her small home town from Chicago, where she has made a success of herself.

Meet John Doe: A soon-to-be laid-off female newspaper report writes a final column, using a phony letter about a disgruntled man who plans to jump off of City Hall on Christmas Eve, as a protest of the mistreatment of the common people in society.

Disc 6:

Shock: A woman witnesses a psychiatrist murder his wife in a fit of rage. The woman is unsuccessful in convincing her husband that she witnessed the murder and is committed to a sanitarium under the care of the doctor who committed the murder.

The Adventures of Gallant Bess: A rodeo rider and ranch hand captures a magnificent wild horse, which he tames and trains to use for competitions. An accident during a competition injures the rider forcing him to recover from his injuries with the aide of his doctor’s daughter.

Freckles Comes Home: college student Freckles returns home from college and finds his girlfriend falling in love with a con artist, and the bank being cased by a gangster.

Passport to Pimlico: During WWII in Pimlico, a tiny overlooked section of London, an unexploded bomb is accidentally set off, revealing a hidden cave full of treasure. A professor discover a charter that says Pimlico is actually a part of the Burgundy section of France. The people of Pimlico try to set up their own country, while the British government tries to pacify the situation.

Drums of Africa: An African expedition searching for the City of the Dead face many perils along the way.

Disc 7:

The Immortal Battalion: A battalion of raw recruits face basic training and their differences in this wartime film. As the recruits work hard to get past their insecurities and inexperience, they are faced with completing their training and prepare for combat duty in North Africa.

Sundown: In Africa during the Second World War, British troops are battling Nazis for control of the continent. In British-held territory, a commander has few sympathies for the native Arab population and even less for a woman he suspects is a Nazi collaborator.

Jack London: In this exciting biographical adventure, we experience the incredible life of legendary author, adventurer and journalist Jack London. From ocena adventures to excapades in the Kondike, his amazing life is thrillingly depicted.

Li’l Abner: Andy Capp’s famous comic strip about the citizens of Dogpatch comes to the screen. This comedy centers upon the annual Sadie Hawkins Day celebration, which gives the unmarried females in town an opportunity to chase down and catch a husband from the local bachelors.

Disc 8:

Cheers for Miss Bishop: A teacher dedicates her life to teaching her students at the sacrifice of her personal life. This story shows Miss Bishop through the stages of her career, from her first job to her retirement, with a realization that her life was not wasted just being a teacher.

The Last Chance: Three allied soldiers escape an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and set out to make it to neutral Switzerland for freedom and a possible return to the Allies.

Outpost in Morocco: The commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost is excorting the Emir’s daughter to the palace and arrives to discover rebellion being plotted by some of the Emir’s men.

Boys of the City: Juvenile delinquents, The East end Kids, head out to the country for some rest, and to avoid further trouble in the old neighborhood, the boys find themselves in unfamiliar territory.

Disc 9:

This is the Army: A musical is put on for the servicemen fighting in World War I and a soldier who performed int he show heads off to war, he is wounded and forced to give up his career as a performer and become a producer. When World War II breaks out, the cast of the original musical decide to stage a new version for the servicemen heading off to fight.

That Uncertain Feeling: After developing a case of hiccups, a married woman visits a psychiatrist to help her with the problem. The psychiatrist believes the hiccups are caused by marital problems which are believed to be a result of the husband’s inattentiveness.

Dishonored Lady: The fashion editor of a successful magazine is leading a stressful life due to her hard working days and long nights of partying. Consulting a psychiatrist about her problem, she is told to simplify her life to take the stress away, so she quits her job, moves to a Greenwich Village Apartment and takes up painting again.

Penny Serenade: While packing to leave her husband, a woman plays some records and upon hearing some songs, reminisces about their life together.

Disc 10:

The Devil Bat: A chemist feels betrayed by the company owners who have profited from his discoveries. Seeking revenge upon the men, the chemist has bred a large vicious bat that will attack anyone wearing the special cologne he’s manufactured. After a series of deaths due to the bat, a reporter discovers the truth behind the attacks and sets out to stop the madman.

My Man Godfrey: Irene Bullock is a young heiress from a family of idly rich eccentrics who finds herself at the city dump due to a scavenger hunt. Once there she meets Godfrey, a hobo who resides at the dump along with his fellow derelicts. Inspired by her meeting with Godfrey, Bullock brings him home and installs him as the family’s new butler.

Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman: A young woman, with an aspiring career as a nightclub singer, gives it all up when she marries a songwriter and budding radio star. With her support fully behind her husband, he finally makes it big and she is able to live a life of idle luxury.

The North Star: A Ukranian farming collective, is home to a group of hard-working people whose lives are shattered by the invasion of the German army during World War II.

Disc 11:

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: A tale of intrigue involving childhood friends and a mysterious death that happened years before.

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock: Twenty years after his big triumph on the college football field, Harold Diddlebock is struggling in the same job he received twenty years before.

His Girl Friday: Hildy Johnson, a star newspaper reporter still working for her ex-husband Walter at a major Chicago newspaper.

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: Andy Hardy returns home from the service to his loving family with the intention of going to college, where he meets and falls in love with co-ed Kay Wilson.

Disc 12:

The Town Went Wild: Two feuding neighbors are shocked to find their respective son and daughter have fallen in love and they wish to get married.

Broadway Limited: In hopes to gain some publicity, a starlet and her producer work on a stunt to have the starlet appear to have adopted a baby. Due to a mix-up, the authorities believe that the infant is kidnapped as the starlet is transporting the baby on the Chicago-to-Manhattan express.

Pot O’Gold: When Jimmy’s music store fails, he goes to work for his uncle, who owns a food factory. Before he arriving at the factory he befriends a family who turn out to be his uncle’s enemies. Jimmy sets about reconciling his new friends and his uncle.

Tulsa: A highly ambitious cattle rancher’s daughter who is out to stop the oil companies from invading the sleepy Oklahoma town of Tulsa ends up building her own oil empire.

Lady of Burlesque: A burlesque performer entertaining at a Broadway theater in the 1930’s is trying to avoid the advances of a comedian and the bitter rivalry she has developed with some of the other dances. When two murders occur at the show house that make her look like the guilty person she must team up with the comedian to find the real murderer.

OCLC #: Disc 1 – 842846537; Disc 2 – 842850513;  Disc 3 – 842850511; Disc 4 – 842846539; Disc 5 – 842850072; Disc 6 – 842846536; Disc 7 –842850065; Disc 8 – 842850510; Disc 9 – 842846541; Disc 10 – 842850506; Disc 11 – 842850512; Disc 12 – 842846535

Added: 5/6/14

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.

The Naked City

Call Number: DVD01062

Director/Distributor: Jules Dassin

Format:  DVD video: NTSC color broadcast system

Language: English

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, ©2007

Notes:

Summary: Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.

OCLC #: 78785909

Added: 10/03/2012

This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection