The Sound of Music

March 29, 2010
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music
Call Number: VHS01085 Copy 1
VHS01085 Copy 2
byRobert Wise; Ernest Lehman; Julie Andrews; Christopher Plummer; Richard Haydn; Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Argyle Enterprise.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., 1993, ©1965.;
Notes:Originally released in 1965 (175 min.); Based on the book by Michael Ende; Nominated for ten 1966 academy awards;
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to 7 children of an autocratic ex-naval captain. Her charm wins over the rebellious children and the unbending captain.
OCLC #: 52981206Added: March 29, 2010
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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I Want to Live!

December 23, 2008
I Want to Live!
Call Number: VHS00594
by Susan Hayward; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm); United Artists Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1958 (122 mins.); Nominated for six 1959 Academy Awards;
Summary: A fast-living party girl is sentenced to die for a murder she did not commit.
OCLC #: 32234930
Added: December 23, 2008
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West Side Story

December 22, 2008
West Side Story
Call Number: VHS00557 Copy 1
VHS00557 Copy 2
VHS00557 Copy 3
VHS00557 Copy 4
VHS00557 Copy 5
by Ernest Lehman; Robert Wise; Jerome Robbins; Natalie Wood; Richard Beymer; Russ Tamblyn; Rita Moreno; George Chakiris; Daniel Fapp; Thomas Stanford; Leonard Bernstein;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, CA] : United Artists : MGM/UA Home Video, [©1988]
Notes: Originally released in 1961 (153 mins.); Based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the musical West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents; Nominated for 11 1962 Academy Awards;
Summary: Based on the Romeo and Juliet story, set in New York’s West Side slums during the late 1950’s, with gang warfare erupting when Maria, sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, falls in love with the leader of the rival Anglo gang, the Jets
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (VHS00146); the Baz Luhrmann version, Romeo + Juliet (VHS00060); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (VHS00318);
OCLC #: 82676744
Added: December 22, 2008
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The Day the Earth Stood Still

December 1, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Call Number: VHS00434
by Michael Rennie; Patricia Neal; Hugh Marlowe; Edmund H North; Robert Wise; Harry Bates; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Fox Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1951 (92 mins.); Based on the story “Farewell to the master” by Harry Bates;
Summary: A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe.
OCLC #: 27359364
Added: December 1, 2008
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