Archive for the ‘Drama’ Category
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Enchanted April
Call Number: VHS00131
by Peter Barnes; Ann Scott; Mike Newell; Miranda Richardson; Josie Lawrence; Polly Walker; Joan Plowright; Elizabeth; BBC Films.; Miramax Films.; Greenpoint Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Communications.;
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Miramax Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, ©1993
Notes: Originally released in 1992 (93 mins.); Nominated for three 1993 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim; Originally produced as a British television program in 1992;
Summary: Two middle-class Englishwomen leave behind their staid lives and passionless marriages to stay for a month at a medieval Italian villa which they share with an austere dowager and a beautiful, bored socialite. At first the women are wary of each other but among the idyllic surroundings they learn to live and love again.
OCLC #: 39445585
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Mike Newell
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Wuthering Heights
Call Number: VHS00129
by Laurence Olivier; Merle Oberon; David Niven; William Wyler; Samuel Goldwyn; Emily Brontë;
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1939 (104 mins.); Based on the novel “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte; Nominated for eight 1940 Academy Awards
Summary: The tortured love affair between Heathcliff and Cathy ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff’s savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax.
Also: See the Robert Fuest directed version (
DVD00369) and the Luis Buñuel directed version Abismos de Pasion (
VHS00815);
OCLC #: 38087049
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, William Wyler
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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Titanic
Call Number: VHS00128
by Jean Negulesco; Clifton Webb; Barbara Stanwyck; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Fox Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Fox Video, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1953 (97 mins.); Nominated for two 1954 Academy Awards;
Summary: Re-enactment of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, the British luxury oceanliner, in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage.
OCLC #: 43750382
Also: See the later-released version, Titanic directed by James Cameron ( VHS00169)
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, History, Jean Negulesco
Posted in Action, Drama | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00127
by Norma Shearer; Leslie Howard; John Barrymore; C Aubrey Smith, Sir; Andy Devine; George Cukor; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, [1992].
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (126 mins.); Based on the play by William Shakespeare; Nominated for four 1937 Academy Awards;
Summary: Film adaptation of the Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers. A truncated version.
Also: See 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); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story ( VHS00557);
OCLC #: 25565652
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, George Cukor, Shakespeare
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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Top Gun
Call Number: VHS00124
by Don Simpson; Jerry Bruckheimer; Jim Cash; Jack Epps; Tony Scott; Tom Cruise; Kelly McGillis; Val Kilmer; Anthony Edwards; Tom Skerritt; Harold Faltermeyer; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1986 (109 mins.); Nominated for four 1987 Academy Awards;
Summary: Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer in the U.S. Navy is out to become the best of the best at the Navy’s prestigious fighter weapons school. Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can’t learn in a classroom.
OCLC #: 15320065
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Tony Scott
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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St. Elmo’s Fire
Call Number: VHS00123
by Emilio Estevez; Rob Lowe; Andrew McCarthy; Demi Moore; Judd Nelson; Ally Sheedy; Mare Winningham; Columbia Pictures Industries.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (110 mins.);
Summary: Seven friends, recent college graduates, search for a place in the real world and face the issues of career and commitment. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo’s, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love each one another as only the closest of friends can.
OCLC #: 35897724
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Joel Schumacher
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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They Were Expendable
Call Number: VHS00122
by Robert Montgomery; John Wayne; Donna Reed; John Ford; William Lindsay White;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (135 mins.); Based on the book by William L. White; Colorized version of a motion picture originally released in black and white; Nominated for two 1946 Academy Awards;
Summary: In the early days of World War II, the Japanese navy pressed relentlessly into the Philippines. Two American skippers are determined to prove that their small PT boats can be shaped into an effective battle fleet against the larger Japanese cruisers.
OCLC #: 21681221
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, John Ford
Posted in Drama, War | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Virginia City
Call Number: VHS00121
by Michael Curtiz; Errol Flynn; Miriam Hopkins; Warner Bros.;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (121 mins.);
Summary: During the Civil War, a group of Southern sympathizers attempts to smuggle $5,000,000 in gold from Nevada to Virginia with the intention of saving the Confederacy and a Union spy is sent to stop them.
OCLC #: 25908836
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Michael Curtiz
Posted in Action, Drama | Comments Closed
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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Sweet Dreams
Call Number: VHS00120
by Jessica Lange; Ed Harris; Karel Reisz; HBO Video (Firm); Silver Screen Partners.; HBO Pictures.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HBO Video, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (115 mins.); Based on country star Patsy Cline; Nominated for one 1986 Academy Award;
Summary: Sweet Dreams is the true story of the legendary Patsy Cline, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top country singer.
OCLC #: 44057011
Added: October 17, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Karel Reisz
Posted in Biography, Drama | Comments Closed
Friday, October 17th, 2008
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The Southerner
Call Number: VHS00119
by Jean Renoir; Zachary Scott; Betty Field; George Sessions Perry; Jean Renoir Productions.; United American Video (Firm);
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
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Jean Renoir
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