Posts Tagged ‘Black and White’
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Call Number: VHS00045
by Paul Muni; Cedric Hardwicke; Lillian Gish; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm); Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia Pictures Industries.;
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1943 (100 mins.); Nominated for one Academy Award;
Summary: Erik Toresen, a simple Norwegian fisherman, finds his quiet coastal village shattered by the Nazi invasion. Untrained in the ways of war, the villagers use only their cold, sullen hatred as defense until Erik mobilizes the villagers and trains them to fight.
OCLC #: 18789506
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, John Farrow, Lillian Gish
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, War | Comments Closed
Monday, October 13th, 2008
George 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);
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
Tags:Award, Black and White, George Stevens
Posted in Comedy, Film Catalog, Romance | Comments Closed
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
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Adventure
Call Number: VHS00042
by Clark Gable; Greer Garson; Victor Fleming; Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Vincent Lawrence; Joan Blondell; Thomas Mitchell; Tom Tully; John Qualen; Richard Haydn; Lina Romay; Philip Merivale; Harry Davenport; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1945 (125 mins); based on a novel by Clyde Brion Davis;
Summary: Harry Patterson, a merchant marine with a swagger in his walk, a girl in every port and a hidden philosophical bent. While on shore leave, he goes with his buddy Mudgin to a most unlikely place … the library! There, he meets reference expert Emily Sears. She is the picture of ladylike decorum, and she hates Harry on sight. She continues to hate him, almost until the moment she marries him! Then, Harry tells her he’s shipping out again, and Emily decides that she’s made a big mistake. But she can’t forget him. What woman could?
OCLC #: 30561306
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Victor Fleming
Posted in Drama, Romance | Comments Closed
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Santa Fe Trail
Call Number: VHS00041
by Robert Buckner; Michael Curtiz; Max Steiner; Hal B Wallis; Errol Flynn; Olivia De Havilland; Raymond Massey; Ronald Reagan; Warner Bros. Pictures.;
Language: English
Publisher: Viking Video Classics (1986)
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (110 mins);
Summary: Upon graduation from West Point, Jeb Stuart and George Custer are sent to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas Territory where, in those days, civilization ended and the Santa Fe Trail began. There they fall in love with the same girl and are instrumental in the tracking down and capture at Harper’s Ferry of John Brown, abolitionist.
OCLC #: 47126604
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Michael Curtiz
Posted in Action, Film Catalog, Western | Comments Closed
Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Scarlet Street
Call Number: VHS00040
by Walter Wanger; Dudley Nichols; Fritz Lang; Edward G Robinson; Joan Bennett; Dan Duryea; Rosalind Ivan; Margaret Lindsay; G de La Fouchardière;
Language: English
Publisher: Memory Lane Video (1984)
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (105 mins.);
Summary: Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he’s a wealthy artist. At Johnny’s urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife’s money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty’s name, with disastrous and ironic results.
OCLC #: 62304385
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Fritz Lang
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Film Noir | Comments Closed
Friday, October 10th, 2008
The Sea of Grass
Call Number: VHS00039
by Elia Kazan; Spencer Tracy; Katharine Hepburn; Robert Walker; Conrad Richter; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (123 mins.);
Summary: Story of the struggle between the open-range cattlemen and the farmers over the grassland of New Mexico.
OCLC #: 42509826
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Elia Kazan
Posted in Drama, Film Catalog, Western | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Repulsion
Call Number: VHS00034
by Roman Polanski; Catherine Deneuve; Ian Hendry; John Fraser; Yvonne Furneaux; Patrick Wymark; Compton Production (Firm); Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Global Media International
Notes: Originally released in 1965 (102 mins);
Summary: A psychological drama of a sexually repressed beautician whose mental breakdown culminates in murder.
OCLC #: 39056828
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Roman Polanski
Posted in Film Catalog, Horror, Thriller | Comments Closed
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Remember the Night
Call Number: VHS00031
by Barbara Stanwyck; Fred MacMurray; Preston Sturges; Mitchell Leisen;
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
Tags:Black and White, Mitchell Leisen
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Film Catalog | Comments Closed
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
