Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Language: English

Publisher: [S.l.] : Thorn EMI Video, 1982.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1982 made for TV movie by Group W Cable Productions, Inc.” (137 min.) Based on the play by the same title by Clifford Odets.  

Summary: This is the story of three sensitive people caught in a painful tangle: Van Dyke is the aging, alcoholic star, desperate for a chance at a comeback; Howard is the brash, insolent young director, who believe’s that the actor’s wife is responsible for his downfall; and Faye Dunaway’s luminous presence carries off the day as the wife whose love for her husband might destroy him.

OCLC #: 9283846

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Madacy Entertainment, 2001.

Notes: Originally released the single documentary “Kamikaze” (76 min.) in 2001. This videocassette release also contains: “Know your enemy: Japan” by Frank Capra (62 min.); “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941” directed by John Ford (33 min.); “Now it can be told” (8 min.); “Formal Japanese surrender” (9 min.); “Recognition of the Japanese Zero fighter” (20 min.); “Appointment in Tokyo” (55 min.); “Japan’s air war” (24 min.) Total running time is approximately 5 hrs. 

Summary: “Kamikaze”: A documentary on the Pacific War beginning with Japanese preparations before the attack on Pearl Harbor and ending with the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. “Know your enemy”: A Frank Capra propaganda film that was used to give the American soldier a look into the mentality of the Japanese enemy. “Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941”: A classic recreation of the Pearl Harbor bombing combined with actual footage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. “Now it can be told”: A newsreel special report of the Pearl Harbor attack. “Formal Japanese surrender”: Newsreel footage of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. “Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter”: An Air Force training film that dramatizes how to identify the Japanese Zero fighter plane and the American P-40 plane. “Appointment in Tokyo”: A documentary covering the entire American Pacific campaign under the leadership of General MacArthur from the Bataan retreat to the surrender of Japan. Some scenes were taken from captured official Japanese newsreels. “Japan’s air war”: From the Asian mainland and newly liberated Pacific islands, American airborne firepower hammers at Japan itself. Film sequences include bombing missions, aerial dogfights and scenes of the aftermath of the atomic bomb.

OCLC #: 43314199

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video, Inc., ©2000.

Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1999 (running time 102 mins.). Based on the book “Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton;

Summary: In AD 922, an important emissary who is banished from his homeland. The nomadic outcast comes across a band of Norse warriors who coerce him into joining them when they are summoned to fight mysterious creatures legendary for consuming every living thing in their path. Eventually surrounded by the frightening and ferocious foe, Ibn must conquer his personal fears and help battle the illusive invaders–who emerge out of the shroud of fog in the black of the night.

OCLC #: 43314199

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: Silent film

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Viking Video Classics, ©1986.

Notes: Originally a German silent film made in 1926 by F.W. Murnau Stiftung. This 1986 videocassette release contains intertitle captions and a musical score not in the original 1926 film (running time 120 mins.).

Summary: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

OCLC #: 18671492

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1943 motion picture (running time 76 mins.) Based on the unproduced play, “Everybody comes to Rick’s,” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Nominated for eight Oscars in 1944.

Summary: Suspenseful, sweepingly romantic, and epicly exciting – the time: World War II; the place: unoccupied Morroco seething with European refugees depserate for passage out of Europe. Casablanca is the story of Rick, a world-weary, broken hearted cynical nightclub owner at the heart of the city. Ilsa, fleeing the Nazis with her Resistance-hero husband crosses paths with Rick, but not for the first time. As intrigue, seduction, and betrayal threaten to destroy everything that Rick has worked for and Ilsa’s husband has fought for, only Rick holds the key to freedom. Faced with the choice to follow his heart or his idealism, this story has it all!

OCLC #: 18671492

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: [Burbank, Calif.]: Touchstone Home Video: [Distributed by] Bunea Vista Home Video, [1994].

Notes: Originally released in 1993 (running time 76 mins.); Based on a story and characters by Tim Burton. Nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1994.

Summary: Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and he embarks on a strange and wonderful jounrey of mixed-up holidays.

OCLC #: 31183803

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.

Notes: Oringinally released as a motion picture in 1993. (total running time: 118 min.) Based on the dramatization of Jane Austen’s novel by the same name, adapted by Helen Jerome. Videocassette release of the 1940 motion picture; renewed copyright 1967 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Nominated for 12 Oscars and 6 Golden Globes in 1994. Won an Oscar in 1941.

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, mistakes and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their lives and their future happiness.

OCLC #: 20959484

Added: November 30, 2011

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1993.

Notes: 2 videocassettes (total running time: 195 min.) Oringinally released as a motion picture in 1993. Based on the novel of the same title by Thomas Keneally. Nominated for 12 Oscars and 6 Golden Globes in 1994.

Summary: The indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did.

OCLC #: 36997083

Added: November 30, 2011

Call Number: VHS1558

VHS 1558 Copy 2

by Matthew McConaughey; Bill Paxton; Jon Bon Jovi; Harvey Keitel; Jonathan Mostow; Studio Canal+.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, [2001]

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Includes behind the scenes interviews with cast and crew and shows the making of the submarine model. Running Time: 138 min.
Summary: During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazi’s top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.

OCLC #: 46980088

Added: November 13, 2011

Call Number: VHS1557

by Robert Mitchum; Peter Falk; Arthur Kennedy; Wynford Vaughan-Thomas; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica S.P.A.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia Tristar Home Video, 2000. 

Notes: Rated PG.From the book by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas.
Videocassette release of the 1968 motion picture by Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, S.P.A./Columbia Pictures Corporation. Running Time: 117 min.

Summary: After landing with Allied troops at Anzio, Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead”–Container.

OCLC #: 55218354

Added: November 13, 2011

Call Number:VHS1556

Call Number: VHS1555

VHS 1555 copy 2

VHS 1555 copy 3

by: Michael Bay; Jerry Bruckheimer; Randall Wallace; Ben Affleck; Josh Hartnett; Kate Beckinsale; Ewen Bremner; Jon Voight; William Lee Scott; Jaime King; Greg Zola; Alec Baldwin; Michael Shannon; Cuba Gooding; John Schwartzman; Roger Barton; Hans Zimmer; Jerry Bruckheimer Films.; Touchstone Pictures.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: United States] : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001]

Notes:  Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: Dec. 4, 2001.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Running Time: 183 min.
Special features: “Unsung heroes” historical documentary; Faith hill music video “There you’ll be.”

Summary:  Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins to get complicated, Dec. 7, 1941 arrives, changing all of their lives forever

OCLC #: 48180649

November 13, 2011 

Call Number: VHS1553

by: Donald Sutherland; Elliott Gould; Tom Skerritt; Sally Kellerman; Robert Duvall; JoAnn Pflug; René Auberjonois; Robert Altman; Ring Lardner; Richard Hooker; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001]

Notes:  Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970. Runnign Time: 116 min.

Summary:  The personnel of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea develop a lunatic lifestyle to cope with the military bureaucracy and the horrors of war.

OCLC #: 48768859

November 13, 2011 

Call Number: VHS1552

Copy 2: VHS 1552

by Oliver Stone; Tom Berenger; Willem Dafoe; Charlie Sheen; Orion Pictures.; Hemdale Film Corporation.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment Inc., [2001]

Notes:  Originally released in 1986 (120 mins.); Nominated for eight 1987 Academy Awards;

Summary:  Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.

OCLC #:44403080

 Added: November 13, 2011 

Call Number: VHS

by: Bud Abbott; Lou Costello; Universal Pictures Company.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm

Format: VHS1551

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1993.

Notes: Based on an original story by Edmund L. Hartmann.
Videocassette release of the 1945 motion picture. Running Time: 90 min.

Summary: Abbott and Costello, admitted to Bixby College as part of a publicity stunt, eventually save the college from closing down

OCLC #: 28996286

Added: November 11, 2011