La Bête Humaine

April 26, 2011
La Bête Humaine  (“The Human Beast”)
Call Number: VHS01671
by:  Jean Gabin; Simone Simon; Jean Renoir; Emile Zola;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English Subtitles
Publisher: Video Award Motion Pictures, Inc. VA5009
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938 (102 min).
Summary: From the Émile Zola novel “La Bête Humaine” comes a story of deep tragedy. Jacques (Jean Gabin) comes from a long line of alcoholics, and though he abstains from the drink himself, he cannot escape another curse his family has passed down to him – the urge, the madness, to kill. Jacques is a railroad engineer, and he falls in love with a young woman (Simone Simon) who is already married. His happiness with her is short lived, but not because of her marriage to another man. In one of Jacques’ cursed and sudden attacks of rage, he murders her. What follows is story of the heights of heartbreak and the depths of simplicity.
 OCLC #: [?]
Added: April 26, 2011
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The Woman on the Beach

May 5, 2009
La Femme Sue La Plage
Call Number: VHS00770
by Frank Davis; Michael Hogan; Mitchell Wilson; Harry J Wild; Leo Tover; Hanns Eisler; Joan Bennett; Charles Bickford; Robert Ryan
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Paris : Editions Montparnasse, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (105 mins.); based on the book by Mitchell Wilson;
Summary: A WWII Coast Guard veteran, Lt. Scott Burnett (Robert Ryan), is plagued by nightmares of his combat days. One day, he meets a woman, Peggy Butler (Joan Bennett), walking on a beach, picking up pieces of wood. Butler is married to a grumpy, blind painter, Ted Butler (Charles Bickford). Despite his affections for his fiancé Eve (Nan Leslie), whose father is a boat builder, Scott falls in love with Peggy and soon breaks off the engagement. Peggy reveals that she blinded her husband years earlier by throwing a glass at him during an ugly spat, ruining his career and her own ambitions to be an upper-class socialite. Scott fears that Ted is suspicious that he is having an affair with Peggy and becomes so paranoid that he begins to believe that Ted is faking his blindness — and sets out to prove it.
OCLC #: 35985474 and 65290685
Added: May 5, 2009
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La Marseillaise – Chronique de quelques faits ayant contribué à la chute de la monarchie

November 21, 2008
La Marseillaise or The Marseillaise
Call Number: VHS00386
by  Jean Renoir; André Zwobada; Pierre Renoir; Lise Delamare; Louis Jouvet; Jean Bourgoin; Margueritte Huguet; Joseph Kosma; Société d’exploitation et de production cinématographique.; Interama Video Classics (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Interama Video Classics, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1938 (130 mins.);
Summary: A dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceeding it in 1790 up to the first bloody confrontation.
OCLC #: 28511570
Added: November 21, 2008
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La Règle du jeu

November 4, 2008
The Rules of the Game
Call Number: VHS00252 Copy 1
VHS00252 Copy 2
by Jean Renoir; Nora Gregor; Nouvelles éditions de films (Firm); Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Murray Hill Video, ©1985?.; Copy 2: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Cinema, [after 1992].
Notes: Originally released in 1939 (107 mins.);
Summary: A satire on the decadence of the pre-World War II French aristocracy. Renoir paints a picture of a social world where pleasure is the prize, where intrigue, guile and the lack of honesty are part of the “rules” of a dying class. Unpopular on its first release at the eve of World War II, the film was withdrawn and suppressed until the late 50’s when a complete print was found and restored.
OCLC #: 11743875
Added: November 3, 2008
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Grand Illusion

October 28, 2008
La Grande Illusion
Call Number: VHS00101 Copy 1
VHS00101 Copy 2
by Jean Renoir; Charles Spaak; Jean Gabin; Pierre Fresnay; Erich Von Stroheim; Crown Video (Firm); Cie Jean Renoir.; Réalisations d’Art Cinématographique (Firm); World Pictures (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Crown Video, [199-?]; Copy 2: Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, 1991.;
Notes: Originally released in 1937 (117 mins.); Nominated for one 1939 Academy Award;
Summary: French officers as German prisoners of war in World War I reflect the changes in the social order and views of warfare as they each try to escape the realities of being in a prisoner of war camp.
OCLC #: 42511283
Added: October 28, 2008
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The Elusive Corporal

October 21, 2008
Le Caporal épinglé
Call Number: VHS00073
by Jean Renoir; Jean-Pierre Cassel; Claude Brasseur; O.E. Hasse; Video Images (Firm); Video Yesteryear.; Reel Images.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images [distributor], ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (109 mins.); Based on the novel by Jacques Perret; Originally released in German and French, this edition has been dubbed in English; Edition contains program card;
Summary: Set in a German P.O.W. camp in 1940, this is the story of a French corporal who is determined to escape to return to Paris and fight once more.
OCLC #: 29696162
Added: October 21, 2008
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The Southerner

October 17, 2008
The Southerner
Call Number: VHS00119
by Jean Renoir; Zachary Scott; Betty Field; George Sessions Perry; Jean Renoir Productions.; United American Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : United American Video Corp., 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (91 mins.); Based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry; Nominated for three 1946 Academy Awards;
Summary: Realistic drama of life in the rural South in the mid-twentieth century. A family of tenant farmers struggles against poverty, illness, and the elements during its first year on the farm.
OCLC #: 15614773
Added: October 17, 2008
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