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Call Number: DVD01055

by: Scott Zakarin; Eric Mittleman; Stan Lee; Kevin Smith; DHG Productions.; Columbia Tristar Pictures (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Pictures, ©2002.

Notes: 1 videodisc (total running time: 97 min.)

Creating Spider-Man & Here Come the Heroes

Recorded at Hi De Ho Comics in Santa Monica, California on February 22, 2002.

Summary: Stan Lee is interviewed about his life and career in animating comic book characters.

OCLC #: 50008025

Added: October 13, 2011

Call Number: DVD00705

by: Dave Walsh; Margaret Haddad; New Video Group.; Arts and Entertainment Network.; Biography Channel (Firm); Greystone Communications.;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: [New York] : Biography Channel : A & E Television Networks : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, [2008].

Notes: Originally produced as part of the television series Biography, 2004. Narrated by Dave Walsh. Total Running Time: 50 min.

Summary: Narrates the comprehensive story of Buster Keaton’s life, from his turn-of-the-century vaudeville upbringing to his 1950s comeback. Keaton’s star soared in the 1920s with a string of brilliant films, but he soon experienced harder times, including bouts with alcoholism and mental illness.

OCLC #: 310154847

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD01194

by: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Léo Joannon, Hollywood DVD Classics

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Double D Distribution, Canada 2004

Notes: Released also under the title “Atoll K” and in Great Britain under the title “Robinson Crusoeland”. Based on an idea by Leo Joannon. Originally issued as motion picture in 1950. Running Time: 82 mins.

Summary: Stan and Ollie are shipwrecked on a desert atoll. Living like a pair of Robinson Crusoes, they befriend other survivors and decide that their atoll can become a modern day Utopia.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00636

by: Lesley Selander; Cherry Wilson; Frances Guihan; Buck Jones; Louise Brooks; Harvey Clark; Charles Middleton; Felix Mills; George Sherman; Luci Ward; Bernard McConville; Edmond Kelso; Wm Berke; John Wayne; Ray Corrigan; Max Terhune; William Colt MacDonald; Republic Pictures Corporation.; Classic Video Streams (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009?]

Notes: DVD includes “Empty Saddles (1936) and “Overland Stage Raiders” (1938). “Overland Stage Raiders” is based on characters created by William Colt MacDonald. Total Running Time: 116 min.

Summary: “Empty Saddles”: A cowboy learns that crooks are behind a range war threatening to destroy cattlemen and sheep ranchers alike. (62 mins.)

“Overland Stage Raiders”: Gold that is shipped by motor coach is under constant attack, so the 3 Mesquiteers buy an airplane to transport the precious metal. But the owner of the coach line has forced the Mesquiteers’ partner to cooperate by threatening the partner’s daughter. (54 mins.)

OCLC #: 671488559

For Volumes 1-3 See: DVD00633, DVD00634, DVD00635

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DV00635

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; William Augustus Wellman; Jim Tully; Benjamin F Glazer; Louise Brooks; Wallace Beery; Richard Arlen; Blue Washington; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Beggars of Life” (1928) and excerpts from the series “Hollywood” (1978). Total Running Time: 104 min.

Summary: “Beggars of Life”: After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada. (100 mins.)

OCLC #: 611566764

For Volumes 1, 2 & 4 See: DVD00633, DVD00634, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00634

by: Howard Hawks; Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Malcolm St Clair; Frank Tuttle; Louise Brooks; Victor McLaglen; Robert Armstrong; Maria Casajuana; William Powell; James Hall; Jean Arthur; Fox Film Corporation.; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “A Girl in Every Port” (1928) and The Canary Murder Case (1929). Total Running Time: 142 min.

Summary: “Girl in Every Port”: A sea-faring Romeo finds himself a step behind the competition when he visits his girlfriends in various ports of call. (62 mins.) 

“Canary Murder Case”: Philo Vance tries to solve the murder of Margaret O’Dell, a blackmailing musical comedy star who was found strangled in her apartment. (80 mins.)

OCLC #: 613227141

For Volumes 1, 3 & 4 See: DVD00633, DVD00635, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00633

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Frank Tuttle; A Edward Sutherland; Louise Brooks; Evelyn Brent; Lawrence Gray; W C Fields; Blanche Ring; William Gaxton; Mary Foy; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em” (1926) and “It’s the Old Army Game (1926). Total Running Time: 141 min.

Summary: “Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em”: Brooks as jazz-baby and flirtatious flapper is almost more than big sister can handle, who bails her out when she gambles away the department store’s party fund. (64 mins.) 

“It’s the Old Army Game”: An expansion on W.C. Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue The Comic Supplement. Described in the opening title as “the epic of the American druggist,” the skits feature the trials and tribulations of druggist Elmer Prettywillie. (77 mins.)

OCLC #: 613230367

For Volumes 2,  3, 4 See: DVD00634, DVD00635, DVD00636

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00629

by: A Edward Sutherland; Ethel Doherty; Clara Bow; Jean Arthur; James Hall; Charles Sellon; Jean Harlow; Frank Tuttle; B P Schulberg; Tom Gibson; Eddie Cantor; Billie Dove; Lawrence Gray; Natalie Kingston; Classic Video Streams.;

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “The Saturday Night Kid” (1929) ; “Kid Boots” (1926); Special feature: “A singing and dancing Clara,” a clip from 1930 “Paramount on Parade” (4 mins.). Total Running Time: 126 min.

Summary: “The Saturday Night Kid”: Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg’s Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow’s first credited role. (65 min)

“Kid boots”: A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place. (61 mins.)

OCLC #: 614444708

For Volumes 1 & 2 See: DVD00627 , DVD00628

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00628

by: Frank O’Connor; Dallas M Fitzgerald; Doris Schroeder; Victor Fleming; Clara Bow; Donald Keith; Raymond McKee; Winter Hall; Charles H Mailes; Carmelita Geraghty; Francis McDonald; Lee Moran; Clive Brook; Arlette Marchal; Albert Gran; Agostino Borgato; Classic Video Streams.

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Free to Love” (1925) ; “My Lady of Whims” (1925); “Hula” (1927). Total Running Time: 169 min.

Summary: “Free to love”: After serving time for a crime she did not commit, Clara Bow tries to kill the judge but can’t go through with it. She becomes his ward instead and falls in love with a family friend — a minister whose father has a weakness for jewels. Clara becomes unwittingly involved with the criminals who deal in stolen gems; but in the end she and her suitor are free to love. (61 mins.)

“My Lady of Whims”: Prudence is actually a nice girl at heart, even though she’s led her indulgent but worried Dad to believe she’s kicking up her heels and living life to the full in Greenwich Village. So Dad hires a muscle man to track down his “wayward” daughter and see that she stays out of trouble. (44 mins.)

“Hula”: The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer. (64 mins.)

OCLC #: 614444706

For Volumes 1 & 3 See: DVD00627, DVD00629

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: DVD00627

by: Adolph Zukor; Jesse L Lasky; Herbert Brenon; Victor Fleming; Clara Bow; Conway Tearle; Alice Joyce; Donald Keith; Dorothy Cumming; Ernest Torrence; Ralph Prescott; Paramount Pictures.; Classic Video Streams.;

Format: DVD

Language: Silent with English Intertitles

Publisher: Pleasanton, CA : Classic Video Streams, [2009]

Notes: DVD includes “Dancing Mothers” (1926) and “Mantrap” (1926) Total Running Time: 130 min.

Summary: “Dancing Mothers”: Set during the 1920’s flapper era a wealthy family is torn apart when the wife discovers that her husband is cheating on her. The shock opens her eyes for the first time to the selfishness and shallowness of her daughter and husband. (64 mins.)

“Mantrap”: A young woman’s flirtatious nature leads her to romantic adventures at a back woods outpost along the Canadian border in the 1920’s. (66 mins.)

OCLC #: 613230362

For Volumes 2 & 3 See: DVD00628, DVD00629

Added: October 12, 2011

Call Number: VHS01495

by: Brian Grazer; Mark D Rosenthal; Lawrence Konner; Barry Sonnenfeld; Michael J Fox; Gabrielle Anwar; Anthony Higgins; Bob Balaban; Michael Tucker; Udo Kier; Dan Hedaya; Oliver Wood; Jim Miller; Bruce Broughton; Susan Lyall; Peter Larkin, Jr.; Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Universal Pictures (Firm); 

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, 1994. Universal City, Calif.] : MCA Universal Home Video, 1994.

Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1993. Running Time: 96 min.

Summary: Doug Ireland must decide whether the love of his life is worth more to him than getting the money to build the luxury hotel of his dreams.

OCLC #: 29874315

Added: October 7, 2011

Call Number: VHS01494

by: Michael Curtiz; Cary Grant; Alexis Smith; 

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Culver Ciry, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991, ©1946.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1946 motion picture. Running Time: 128 min
Summary: An exploration of the life and times of Cole Porter. 

OCLC #: 24147767 

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©2000

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Running Time: 96 min.

Summary: When Mona Dearly, the town’s most hated resident, drives into the river and drowns celebration ensues until the sheriff realizes that it wasn’t an accident. His job? To find out who killed her, when everyone had a motive.

OCLC #: 44655156

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, 1991. 

Notes: Based on the novel Bid time return by Richard Matheson.Originally released as motion picture in 1980. Hi-fi, Dolby processed. Rated PG.“Some music rescored.”–Box. Running Time: 104 min.

Based on the novel, A stone for Danny Fisher, by Harold Robbins. Running Time: 116 min

Summary: A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him.

OCLC #: 29551694

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, p©1986, ©1958. 

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1958 motion picture.
Based on the novel, A stone for Danny Fisher, by Harold Robbins. Running Time: 116 min

Summary: Set in New Orleans, in King Creole Elvis is a singing bus boy. Songs include “King Creole,” “Hard-headed woman, ” and more.

Publisher: United States : Showtime Networks Inc., 2003

Notes:Based on the book “Against the current: as I remember F. Scott Fitzgerald” by Frances Kroll Ring. Running Time: 108 min

Summary:

Based on the true story of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work on his final novel. Despite a tumultuous relationship with his mistress, his ailing wife, declining health, and his daily drinking binges, he secretly wrote a scathing novel about the film industry.

OCLC #: 53089160

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group, ©1999.

Notes:Based on the novel by Howard Fast. Running Time: 100 min

Summary: December 1776. Decimated by superior British forces, suffering from disease, desertion and lack of funds, General George Washington (Jeff Daniels) faces the unthinkable — losing the war. Despite all advice to the contrary, Washington makes a courageous decision that is considered to be one of the boldest in military history. On Christmas night, with the American Revolution hanging in the balance, Washington takes his army across the ice-choked Delaware River. The next morning, he leads a surprise atack against a garrison of Hessian mercenaries. The overwhelming and miraculous victory turns the tide in the war and ultimately leads to the birth of the United States. 

OCLC #: 43412271

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: New York : Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, ©1992.

Notes: From the play Roberta by Otto Harbach and the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1935. Running Time: 106 min

Summary: A musical comedy about a group of American entertainers who find themselves running a dress shop in Paris

OCLC #:29736321

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Atlanta : Turner Home Entertainment, ©1994.

Notes: Not rated. Running Time: 150 min

Summary: Abraham leaves the pagan land of Ur for the promised land of Canaan, after being promised by God that doing so will cause his descendents to become a great and numerous tribe.

OCLC #: 31531799

Added: October 7, 2011

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 1994, ©1993.

Notes: Based on the play by David Henry Hwang.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.
Reformatted to fit TV screen. Running Time: 101 min

Summary: Story of a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star who carry on a love affair over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something shocking about his lover.

OCLC #: 30083725

Added: October 7, 2011