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Open City

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Roma, città aperta or Rome, Open City
Call Number: VHS00178
by Roberto Rossellini; Sergio Amidei; Federico Fellini; Film Classics (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Italian, with English subtitles
Publisher: [Hollywood, CA] : Film Classics
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (105 mins.); Nominated for one 1947 Academy Award;
Summary: An inspirational film, and representative of neo-realistic cinema, about Rome during the Nazi occupation. A priest who is helping the Italian resistance fighters is discovered and arrested by the SS.
OCLC #: 42886741
Added: October 27, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Gentleman's Agreement

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Gentleman’s Agreement
Call Number: VHS00173
by Gregory Peck; Dorothy McGuire; John Garfield; Celeste Holm; Elia Kazan; Darryl Francis Zanuck; Moss Hart; Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson; Fox Video (Firm); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York : Jewish Media Fund, 1997
Notes: Originally released 1947 (118 mins.); nominated for eight 1948 Academy Awards; Based on the novel Gentleman’s agreement by Laura Z. Hobson.
Summary: A writer who is assigned to do a magazine series on anti-Semitism decides to pose as a Jew, and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance.
OCLC #: 39446754
Added: October 22, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Titanic

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 
Titanic
Call Number: VHS00169
by Leonardo DiCaprio; Kate Winslet; Billy Zane; Kathy Bates; Frances Fisher; Bernard Hill; Jonathan Hyde; Danny Nucci; Gloria Stuart; David Warner; Victor Garber; Bill Paxton; James Cameron; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Lightstorm Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, [1998]
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (194 mins.); Nominated for 14 1998 Academy Awards;
Summary: Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
OCLC #: 39779624
Also: See the earlier release, Titanic – directed by Jean Negulesco (VHS00128);
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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The White Cliffs of Dover

Monday, October 20th, 2008
The White Cliffs of Dover
Call Number: VHS00159
by Irene Dunne; Alan Marshal; Roddy McDowall; Frank Morgan; Van Johnson; C Aubrey Smith, Sir; May Whitty, Dame; Gladys Cooper; Clarence Brown; Claudine West; Jan Lustig; George Froeschel; Alice Duer Miller; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, [1993]
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (126 mins.); Nominated for one 1945 Academy Award;
Summary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son’s own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
OCLC #: 28054680
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Boom Town

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Boom Town
Call Number: VHS00157
by Clark Gable; Spencer Tracy; Claudette Colbert; Hedy Lamarr; James Edward Grant; John Lee Mahin; Jack Conway; Loew’s Incorporated.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm); Turner Entertainment Co.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (120 mins.);  Based on a story by James Edward Grant; Nominated for two 1941 Academy Awards;
Summary: Hard-hitting yarn of wildcat days and wildcat ways in the development of the American oil business
OCLC #: 22434112
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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All That Jazz

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
All That Jazz
Call Number: VHS00155 Copy 1
VHS00155 Copy 2
by Roy Scheider; Jessica Lange; Ann Reinking; Leland Palmer; Erzsebet Foldi; Bob Fosse; Robert Alan Aurthur; Cliff Gorman; Ben Vereen; Daniel Melnick; Giuseppe Rotunno; Alan Heim; Philip Rosenberg; Ralph Burns; Stanley Lebowsky; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; CBS Fox Video.; Columbia Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (123 mins.); Nominated for nine 1980 Academy Awards;
Summary: Bob Fosse’s spellbinding film and four time Academy Award winner is a powerful story of a man driven compulsively to find perfection in his work. It is a musical which celebrates show business, yet strips it of its glitter.
OCLC #: 32775034
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Out of Africa

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Out of Africa
Call Number: VHS00153
by Robert Redford; Meryl Streep; Isak Dinesen; Judith Thurman; Errol Trzebinski; Universal Pictures (Firm); MCA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (161 mins.); Based on the books “Out of Africa,” Shadows on the grass” and “Letters from Africa” by Isak Dinesen ; “Isak Dinesen, the life of a storyteller” by Judith Thurman ; and “Silence will speak” by Errol Trzebinski; Nominated for 10 1986 Academy Awards;
Summary: The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and the mysterious white hunter.
OCLC #: 14222269
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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The Third Man

Monday, October 20th, 2008
The Third Man
Call Number: VHS00152
by David O Selznick; Alexander Korda; Carol Reed; Orson Welles; Joseph Cotten; Trevor Howard; Graham Greene; Goodtimes Home Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Goodtimes Home Video, 1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (104 mins.); Nominated for three 1951 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Graham Greene.
Summary: Details the intrigue encountered by an American novelist who travels to Vienna ostensibly to attend the funeral of a friend, but finds himself enmeshed in international espionage plots in the wake of World War II. Examines the psychological and physical landscape of post-World War II Vienna on the brink of the Cold War, utilizing scenes of war-devastated Vienna as the American novelist determines who is trustworthy.
OCLC #: 163836315
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Notorious

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Notorious
Call Number: VHS00150
by Cary Grant; Ingrid Bergman; Claude Rains; Louis Calhern; David O Selznick; Alfred Hitchcock; CBS Fox Video.; ABC Video Enterprises.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : CBS Fox Video : ABC Video Enterprises, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (103 mins.); Nominated for two 1947 Academy Awards;
Summary: Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
OCLC #: 28370122
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Romeo & Juliet

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00146
by Olivia Hussey; Leonard Whiting; Franco Zeffirelli; William Shakespeare; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures Corp., ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (138 mins.); Based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; 1968 Royal Film Performance; Nominated for four 1969 Academy Awards;
Summary: Teenagers fall in love, but are opposed by their families.
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); 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 #: 19225475
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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