Posts Tagged ‘Award’
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Mildred Pierce
Call Number: VHS00043
by Joan Crawford; Jack Carson; Zachary Scott; Ann Blyth; Bruce Bennett; Eve Arden; Max Steiner; Milo Anderson; Jerry Wald; Michael Curtiz; Ranald MacDougall; James M Cain; Warner Bros. Pictures.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, Turner, [1990]
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (112 mins); Nominated for six Academy Awards; From the novel by James M. Cain
Summary: A woman’s obsessive love for her spoiled and selfish daughter leads her into divorce, the restaurant business, and the accusation of murder.
OCLC #: 21183000
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Michael Curtiz
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Film Noir | Comments Closed
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.;
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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Tags:Award, Stanley Donen
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog, Musical | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Call Number: VHS00033
by Gary Kurtz; Howard Kazanjian; George Lucas; Irvin Kershner; Richard Marquand; Leigh Brackett; Lawrence Kasdan; Paul Hirsch; Marcia Lucas; Duwayne Dunham; Mark Hamill; Harrison Ford; Carrie Fisher; London Symphony Orchestra.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Lucasfilm, Ltd.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1983 (134 mins.); Nominated for four Academy Awards;
Summary: Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels.
OCLC #: 38848642
Also: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (
VHS00108); and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (
VHS00281)
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, George Lucas, Richard Marquand
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Double Indemnity
Call Number: VHS00029 Copy 1
VHS00029 Copy 2
VHS00029 Copy 3
by Joseph Sistrom; Billy Wilder; Raymond Chandler; Fred MacMurray; Barbara Stanwyck; Edward G Robinson; Miklós Rózsa; James M Cain; Paramount Pictures, inc.; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (137 mins.); Nominated for seven Oscars; Based on the book by James M. Cain;
Summary: An insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death– then push him from a train. It’s an almost perfect crime.
OCLC #: 39196928
Also: DVD format available under DVD00007
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Billy Wilder, Black and White, Books on Film
Posted in Film Catalog, Film Noir, Thriller | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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The Whales of August
Call Number: VHS00028 Copy 1
VHS00028 Copy 2
by Lindsay Anderson; Bette Davis; Lillian Gish; David Berry; Alive Films.; Circle Associates.; Nelson Entertainment (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (91 mins.); Nominated for one Oscar; Based on the play by David Berry;
Summary: Two elderly sisters who have spent sixty summers on a Maine island together must finally decide whether to give up their family home, independence and life together.
OCLC #: 42480005
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Lillian Gish, Lindsay Anderson
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Call Number: VHS00024
by Norman Jewison; William Rose; Carl Reiner; Eva Marie Saint; Alan Arkin; Brian Keith; Jonathan Winters; Theodore Bikel; Paul Ford; Nathaniel Benchley; Mirisch Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [Culver City, Calif.] : MGM/UA Home Video, [1992]
Notes: Orginially released in 1965 (127 mins.); Nominated for four Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Nathaniel Benchley.
Summary: A Russian submarine grounded on a New England sandbar is mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
OCLC #: 42006138
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Books on Film, Eva Marie Saint, Norman Jewison
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog, War | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Call Number: VHS00023 Copy 1
VHS00023 Copy 2
by Robert Mulligan; Alan J Pakula; Mary Badham; Phillip Alford; Horton Foote; Gregory Peck; Brock Peters; Robert Duvall; Harper Lee; Universal-International (Firm); Pakula-Mulligan Productions.; Brentwood Productions, Inc.; MCA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [Universal City, CA] : MCA Home Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (131 mins.); Nominated for eight Academy Awards; Based on the book by Harper Lee.
Summary: Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unjustly accused of raping a white girl. Gregory Peck is a southern small town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape. His compassionate, but doomed defense costs him many friends, but earns him the admiration of his two children.
OCLC #: 24948228
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Crime, Robert Mulligan
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A Handful of Dust
Call Number: VHS00022
by Charles Sturridge; James Wilby; Kristin Scott-Thomas; Rupert Graves; Anjelica Huston; Judi Dench; Alec Guinness; Evelyn Waugh; New Line Cinema Corporation.; Stagescreen Productions.; New Line Home Video (Firm); Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : New Line Home Video : Sold exclusively by Turner Home Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1988 (118 mins.); Nominated for one Academy Award; based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh
Summary: A tale of upper class British lives in which the husband in a seemingly perfect marriage invites a penniless socialite for a weekend stay. The result is passion, infidelity, and death.
OCLC #: 34794171
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Books on Film, Charles Sturridge
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
North by Northwest
Call Number: VHS00021
by Alfred Hitchcock; Ernest Lehman; Herbert Coleman; Robert Burks; Bernard Herrmann; George Tomasini; Cary Grant; Eva Marie Saint; James Mason; Martin Landau; Jessie Royce Landis; Turner Entertainment Co.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, 1996.
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (136 mins.); Nominated for three Academy Awards; Edition part of the MGM/UA Vintage Classics
Summary: Roger O. Thornhill is a victim of mistaken identity and is forced to embark on a run for his life by train, plane and automobile.
OCLC #: 36096571
Also: DVD version of North by Northwest available (
DVD00055)
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Eva Marie Saint
Posted in Action, Thriller | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Sense and Sensibility
Call Number: VHS00020 Copy 1
VHS00020 Copy 2
by Ang Lee; Emma Thompson; Kate Winslet; Alan Rickman; Hugh Grant; Lindsay Doran; Sydney Pollack; Jane Austen;
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1995. (Copy 2 is copyrighted 1996)
Notes: Originally released in 1995 (136 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
Summary: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Eleanor and passionate Marianne, find their chances at marriage seemingly doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune.
OCLC #: 83905754
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Ang Lee, Award, Books on Film
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
