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Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Call Number: DVD00021
by Blake Edwards; Peter Sellers; Herbert Lom; Colin Blakely; Leonard Rossiter; Lesley-Anne Down; Henry Mancini; Harry Waxman; Frank Waldman; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; AMJO Productions Limited.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calf. : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 2005
Notes: Originally released in 1976 (103 mins.); Nominated for one 1977 Academy Award;
Summary: After a nervous breakdown, Chief Inspector Dreyfus builds a criminal organization devoted to the extermination of Inspector Clouseau.
OCLC #: 66530728
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Modern Times
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Modern Times
Call Number: VHS00068 Copy 1
VHS00068 Copy 2
by Charlie Chaplin; Paulette Goddard; Fox Video (Firm); CBS Fox Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Fox Video : CBS Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (87 mins.); Edition: Charlie Chaplin Centennial Collection;
Summary: A devastating satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers, with Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and a singing waiter. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
OCLC #: 27075762
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Forrest Gump
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Forrest Gump
Call Number: VHS00067
by Steve Tisch; Wendy Finerman; Robert Zemeckis; Eric Roth; Tom Hanks; Robin Wright; Gary Sinise; Mykelti Williamson; Sally Field; Winston Groom; Paramount Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (142 mins.); Based on the novel “Forrest Gump” by Winston Groom; Nominated for 13 1995 Academy Awards;
Summary: Through three turbulent decades, Forrest, a simple man with a low I.Q., rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
OCLC #: 32375140
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Scarlet Pimpernel
Monday, October 13th, 2008Scarlet Pimpernel
Call Number: VHS00058
by Leslie Howard; Merle Oberon; Harold Young; Raymond Massey; Nigel Bruce; Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness; Memory Lane Video.; London Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Memory Lane Video, ©1984.
Notes: Originally released in 1934 (95 mins.); Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy;
Summary: An apparently ineffectual member of royalty by day dons a peasant’s costume at night and defies the bloody tribunals of the French Revolution by snatching the doomed aristocrats from the guillotine.
OCLC #: 12629961
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
The Madness of King George
Monday, October 13th, 2008The Madness of King George
Call Number: VHS00046
by Nicholas Hytner; Nigel Hawthorne; Helen Mirren; Ian Holm; Amanda Donohoe; Rupert Graves; Rupert Everett; Alan Bennett; Samuel Goldwyn Co.; Channel Four Films (Firm); Close Call Films.; Orion Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Distributed by Orion Home Video, [1994],
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (110 mins.); Nominated for four Academy Awards; Based on Alan Bennett’s stage play.
Summary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occurring while the king is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
OCLC #: 39705250
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
The More the Merrier
Monday, October 13th, 2008George Stevens’ The More the Merrier
Call Number: VHS00044
by George Cooper Stevens; Jean Arthur; Joel McCrea; Charles Coburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1990]
Notes: Originally released in 1943 (104 mins.); Nominated for six 1944 Academy Awards;
Summary: Comedy set during World War II about a single working girl who, because of a significant housing shortage, sublets part of her Washington D.C. apartment to two men. Preceeded to previews of others in the series.
OCLC #: 42508131
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Royal Wedding
Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Royal Wedding
Call Number: VHS00036 Copy 1
VHS00036 Copy 2
by Fred Astaire; Jane Powell; Alan Jay Lerner; Arthur Freed; Stanley Donen; Burton Lane; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York, NY : Goodtimes Home Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1951 (93 mins.); Nominated for one Academy Award; Includes famous Fred Astaire scene of dancing on the walls and ceiling.
Summary: A musical set during Princess Elizabeth’s wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance.
OCLC #: 25722569
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Risky Business
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Risky Business
Call Number: VHS00035
by Tom Cruise; Rebecca DeMornay; Paul Brickman; Jon Avnet; Steve Tisch; Geffen Film Company.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1983 (99 mins.); Edition is the Warner Bros. Hits;
Summary: Joel’s parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn’t. Every kid’s dream is every parent’s nightmare. No sooner do Joel’s parents step on the plane when he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad’s Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
Also: Available on DVD (DVD00128);
OCLC #: 42358189
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Remember the Night
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Remember the Night
Call Number: VHS00031
by Barbara Stanwyck; Fred MacMurray; Preston Sturges; Mitchell Leisen;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (94 mins.);
Summary: Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He’s driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee’s a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother’s on the way. When she’s rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand, Willie, give her a real Christmas and the love she’s never had. Inevitably, Lee and John fall in love — but there’s still a trial ahead.
OCLC #: 33152227
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tea with Mussolini
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Tea with Mussolini
Call Number: VHS00026 Copy 1
VHS00026 Copy 2
VHS00026 Copy 3
by Franco Zeffirelli; Cher; Judi Dench; Joan Plowright; Maggie Smith; Lily Tomlin; Medusa Film SPA.; Cattleya (Firm); Cineritmo (Firm); Film and General Productions.; Business Affair Productions.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: [Culver City, CA] : MGM Home Entertainment, 1999.
Copy 2: [Culver City, CA] : MGM Home Entertainment, 2000
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (117 mins.);
Summary: Director Franco Zeffirelli presents a semi-autobiographical story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite stay in Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose mother has run off and whose father has little time for him. Fortunately, he’s a welcome guest of Mary, an English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends enjoy life in Italy, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well.
OCLC #: 44044261
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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