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Rhythm on the Range
Call Number: VHS00069
by Bing Crosby; Frances Farmer; Bob Burns; Martha Raye; Adolph Zukor; John C Moffitt; Sidney Salkow; Walter DeLeon; Francis Martin; Norman Taurog; Benjamin F Glazer; Boris Morros; Leo Robin; Sam Coslow; Friedrich Hollaender; Richard A Whiting; Ralph Rainger; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, [1995]
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (88 mins.); Edition includes original theatrical trailer;
Summary: After performing in a rodeo at Madison Square Garden, cowboy Jeff Larrabee is heading back west with his prize bull, Cuddles, when his tranquility is shattered. There’s a runaway in his boxcar: pretty New York heiress Doris Halliday. Doris is fed up with the big city and hankering for romance and the great outdoors. But Jeff’s a hard-to-win kind of guy.
OCLC #: 33216761
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Rhythm on the Range
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
The Shanghai Gesture
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The Shanghai Gesture
Call Number: VHS00066
by Josef Von Sternberg; John Colton; Gene Tierney; Walter Huston; Victor Mature; Arnold Pressburger; Image Entertainment.; Arnold Productions, inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Chatsworth, CA.] : Dist. by Image Entertainment, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (99 mins.); From the play by John Colton; Nominated for two 1943 Academy Awards;
Summary: A story of decadence and addictions of several sorts in Shanghai’s underworld.
OCLC #: 42459707
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
A Woman's Face
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008A Woman’s Face
Call Number: VHS00065
by Joan Crawford; Melvyn Douglas; Francis de Croisset; Loew’s Incorporated.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (107 mins.); From the play “Il etait une fois” by Francis de Croisset;
Summary: Anna Holm, a professional blackmailer, despises herself and the world because of a disfiguring facial scar.
OCLC #: 26850682
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Sabotage
Monday, October 13th, 2008Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage
Call Number: VHS00062
by Joseph Conrad; Alfred Hitchcock; Sylvia Sidney; Oscar Homolka; John Loder; Desmond Tester; Gaumont British Picture Corp.; Encore Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Ontario, Canada : Inter Global Video, 1985.
Notes: Originally released in Great Britain in 1936 (76 mins.); Based on the novel “The Secret Agent” by Joseph Conrad
Summary: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
OCLC #: 37863713
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 Mortal Storm
Monday, October 13th, 2008The Mortal Storm
Call Number: VHS00056
by Frank Borzage; Claudine West; Andersen Ellis; George Froeschel; Margaret Sullavan; James Stewart; Robert Young; Phyllis Bottome; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (100 mins.); Edition contains original theatrical trailer;
Summary: On the same day that Prof. Roth celebrates his birthday, Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. This causes a tragic rift among the guests at the professor’s party. Politics come between Roth’s daughter Freya & her fiance. Freya finds herself falling in love with an old friend, but their only hope for a future together is to escape to freedom across the Austrian border.
OCLC #: 30999564
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
The Little Foxes
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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The Little Foxes
Call Number: VHS00055
by Samuel Goldwyn; Lillian Hellman; William Wyler; Bette Davis; Herbert Marshall; Teresa Wright; Richard Carlson; Dan Duryea; Meredith Willson; Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1985.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (116 mins.); Based on the play by Lillian Hellman; Nominated for nine Academy Awards
Summary: Regina Giddens is a vicious woman who destroys everyone around her while trying to satisfy her desire for wealth and social position.
OCLC #: 12240925
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Miracle on 34th Street
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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Miracle on 34th Street
Call Number: VHS00051
by Edmund Gwenn; Natalie Wood; Maureen O’Hara; John Payne;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : FoxVideo, Inc., ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (97 mins.); Nominated for four 1948 Academy Awards;
Summary: In this Oscar-winning classic, a Macy’s Department Store Santa who insists his name is Kris Kringle teaches everyone a lesson in love, faith and the value of imagination.
OCLC #: 24852765
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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The Heiress
Monday, October 13th, 2008
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William Wyler’s The Heiress
Call Number: VHS00047 Copy 1
VHS00047 Copy 2
by William Wyler; Ruth Goetz; Augustus Goetz; Olivia De Havilland; Montgomery Clift; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Miriam Hopkins; Mona Freeman; Vanessa Brown; Selena Royle; Henry James;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: EMKA; MCA Home Video, Inc.: 1985
Copy 2: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (115 mins.); Nominated for eight Academy Awards; From the play by Ruth & Augustus Goetz & the novel “Washington Square” by Henry James;
Summary: A wealthy girl falls in love with a penniless man her father is sure only wants her for her money. When she plans to elope, her father threatens to disinherit her. Will she still go through with the marriage?
OCLC #: 80155105
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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