Dr. Ralph H. Wolfe Viewing Center

Call Number: VHS01585

by: Henri Bataille; Douglas Fairbanks; Merle Oberon; Alexander Korda.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [S.l.] : Memory Lane Video, ©1984.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1934 motion picture by London Film Productions Ltd. Based on the play of the same name by Henri Bataille. Total Running Time: 97 min.

Summary: Don Juan is aging. He’s arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn’t lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won’t come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan. When a jealous husband kills him, the real Don Juan sees a way to avoid jail and get some peace. He hides as Captain Mariano in a small town. After six months, he’s ready to return to society: can he measure up to the legend, will women find him attractive, and what about Doña Dolores?  

OCLC #: 14199704

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01584

by: Buster Keaton; Charles Lamont; Marcy Klauber; Vernon Dent; Dorothea Kent; Lona Andre; Harold Goodwin; Diana Lewis; Facets Multimedia.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Chicago, IL : Facets Multimedia [distributer, 198-?]

Notes: Videocassette release of three of Keaton’s talkies. Total Running Time: 58 min.

Summary: “Tars and Stripes” (1935): Naval recruit Elmer (Keaton) is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable for his irascible commanding officer, who winds up getting doused with paint, splattered with muck, and repeatedly tossed into the water due to Elmer’s ineptitude. To make matters worse, Elmer takes a shine to the CO’s girlfriend, which prompts her jealous boyfriend into several wrathful chases after Elmer. He eventually has Elmer locked into the brig — but his girlfriend is in there too, so she can be together with her beloved Elmer (20 mins.) “Three on a Limb” (1936): A Scout leader (Buster Keaton) pulls into a drive-in where he quickly falls for the waitress (Lona Andre) who he agrees to drive home. Once there Keaton learns that the girl’s parents want her to marry two different men so Buster gets the idea of trying to win her heart but when he goes to marry her the other two men show up and problems follow (18 mins.). “Grand Slam Opera” (1936): Elmer Butts (Keaton) is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price… by dancing and juggling (20 mins.)!

 OCLC #: 26728109

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01583

by: Harry Houdini, Howard Hillary, Jane Connelly, Arthur Maude, Coolidge Streeter, Burton L. King, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery, Luis Alberni, Yale Benner, Nita Naldi, Louis Dunmyre, Harry Fischbeck, L.D. Littlefield,  Frank Zucker, Alexander G. Penrod, Irving B. Ruby 

Format: VHS

Language: Silent with English intertitles

Publisher: Medford, OR. : Sinister Cinema, [199-].

Notes: Videocassette release of a 1922 silent motion picture produced and written by Harry Houdini. Total Running Time: 74 min.

Summary: The body of a man, Howard Hillary, frozen for a hundred years, is found in the Arctic ice. Thawed out and awakened, Hillary insists that a young woman, Felice, is his fiancée from a century before. Hillary is interned in a mental institution but escapes and realizes the truth of where he is and that Felice is actually the descendant of his own Felice from long ago. Hillary joins her in searching for her father, who has been abducted by someone known to them both.

OCLC #: 265215934

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01582

by: Roger Moore; Ian Fleming; Danjaq S.A.; United Artists Corporation.; CBS Fox Video.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : CBS/FOX Video, 1983.

Notes: Released in 1974 as a motion picture by Danjaq S.A./United Artists. Based on the novel of the same title by Ian Fleming. Total Running Time: 125 min.

Summary: Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?

OCLC #: 9283857

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01581

by: James Mason; John Gielgud; Dorothy Tutin; Edward Fox; Geoffrey Reeve; Alan Bridges; Isabel Colegate; Ace Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [United States] : ACE Video, ©1992.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture. Based on the novel of the same name by Isabel Colegate. Total Running Time: 108 min.

Summary: Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate’s peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph’s daughter, gets into a shooting competition with Lord Gilbert Hartlip; Lord Gilbert’s wife carries on discreet affairs; a pamphleteer circles the estate calling for no more killing, and Sir Robert’s grandson hopes to protect a wild duck he’s befriended. A way of life is ending: Lord Gilbert’s violation of the gentlemen’s code suggests internal rot as the real world presses in.

OCLC #: 29798622

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01580

by: Jason Robards; Martin Balsam; Joseph Cotten; E G Marshall; James Whitmore; Sō Yamamura; Tatsuya Mihashi; Takahiro Tamura; Eljiro Tono; Koreya Senda; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1998.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Nominated for 5 Oscars in 1971. Total Running Time: 144 min.

Summary: In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbour. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might come.

OCLC #: 39344813

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01579

by: Peter Weir; Hal McElroy; James McElroy; Tony Morphett; Petru Popescu; Richard Chamberlain; Olivia Hamnett; World Northal Corporation.; Rhino Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Rhino Home Video, 1991.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Total Running Time: 106 min.

Summary: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.

OCLC #: 23751988

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01578

by: José Ferrer; Michael Gordon; Mala Powers; William Prince; Edmond Rostand; United Artists Corporation.; Viking Video Classics.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

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

Notes: Videocassette release of the original uncut version of the 1950 motion picture. Nominated for 4 1951 Golden Globes and 2 Oscars.Based on the play by Edmond Rostand. Total Running Time: 112 min.

Summary: Cyrano is the toast of 17th century Paris. He is a unexcelled swordsman, lover, scientist, a renowned wit, and poignantly in love with his friend’s girl, who will not look romantically at him because of his ridiculously large nose. Cyrano’s life long passion goes unrequited until his death in service of her happiness.

 OCLC #: 16704444

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01577

by: Terry Gilliam; John Neville; Eric Idle; Columbia Pictures Industries.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1989.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture. Nominated for 4 1989 Oscars. Total Running Time: 126 min.

Summary: The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.

OCLC #: 20836890

Added: December 3, 2011

Call Number: VHS01576

by: Jacques Tati; Janus Films.; Public Media Home Vision.

Format: VHS

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: [S.l.] : Public Media Home Vision, [1996?], 1967.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1967 Jacques Tati motion picture comedy. Total Running Time: 120 min.

Summary: Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.

OCLC #: 35674322

Added: December 3,2011

Call Number: VHS01575

by: Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Jerome Lester Howard; Jules White; Del Lord; Hugh McCollum; Harry Edwards; Charlie Chase; Three Stooges (Comedy team); Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1985.

Notes: Videocassette release of three short films originally released in 1939 and 1942. Total Running Time: 60 min.

Summary: “Loco Boy Makes Good” (1942): The Stooges help a little old lady by transforming her rundown hotel into a posh night club. At show time, Curly gets the magician’s coat by mistake (18 mins.). “Matri-phony” (1939): To save an innocent slave girl forced into marriage with the nearsighted Emperor Octopus Grabus, Curly takes her place on the wedding night (17 mins.). “Saved by the Belle” (1939): The Stooges are salesmen stranded south of the border–and caught in the middle of a revolution (17 mins.).

OCLC #: 13845083

Added: December 3,2011

Call Number: VHS01570

by: Rosalind Russell; John Boles; Billie Burke; Jane Darwell; Dorothy Wilson; Alma Kruger; Thomas Mitchell; Dorothy Arzner; George Kelly; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA Home Video (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.

Notes: Videocassette release of the 1936 motion picture. Based on the Pulitzer Prize play by George Kelly. Running Time: 75 min.

Summary: A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: December 3,2011

by: Al Pacino; Jack Lemmon; Alec Baldwin; James Foley; Jerry Tokofsky; David Mamet; Zupnik Enterprises.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Van Nuys, CA : Live Home Video, [1993]

Notes: Screenplay by David Mamet, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Running Time: 100 min

Summary:Intense drama about competition in the real estate business. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley “the machine” Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the leads and leaving everyone wondering.

OCLC #: 79597467

Added: December 2, 2011