Posts Tagged ‘Books on Film’
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Anna Karenina
Call Number: VHS00088
by Leo Tolstoy, graf; Vivien Leigh; Ralph Richardson, Sir; Kieron Moore; London Film Productions.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: [United States?] : Video Specials, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (112 mins) in the UK; Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy;
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Tolstoy’s novel of passion and family conflict set in 19th century upper-class Russia.
Also: See the Clarence Brown directed Anna Karenina (
VHS00180)
OCLC #: 35573148
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Julien Duvivier
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
The Count of Monte Cristo
Call Number: VHS00085
by Robert Donat; Louis Calhern; Sidney Blackmer; Elissa Landi; Alexandre Dumas; United Artists Corporation.;
Language: English
Publisher: Batavia, Ohio : Video Treasures, 1990.
Notes: Originally Released in 1934 in black and white; Color version c1989 [by] Color Systems Technology, Inc. (112 mins.); Based on the book by Alexander Dumas;
Summary: Alexander Dumas ̕classic adventure about Edmond Dantes who, after years in prison, escapes and avenges himself on those who framed him.
OCLC #: 23026922
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Books on Film, Rowland V. Lee
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Rebecca
Call Number: VHS00083 Copy 1
VHS00083 Copy 2
by Laurence Olivier; Joan Fontaine; David O Selznick; Judith Anderson, Dame; Alfred Hitchcock; Daphne Du Maurier, Dame; Selznick Studios.; Key Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: Livionia, MI : Key Video, ©1988.; Copy 2: Beverly Hills, CA : CBS/Fox Video, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (131 mins.); Nominated for 11 1941 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier;
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband’s first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman’s death.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 17626322; Copy 2: 39248160
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Award, Black and White, Books on Film
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Call Number: VHS00082
by Ken Taylor; Betty Willingale; David Giles; Anna Massey; Bernard Hepton; Angela Pleasence; Derek Bourgeois; Jane Austen; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.; Lionheart Television International.; CBS Fox Video.; BBC Video (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : CBS/Fox Video ; [Alexandria, Va.] : BBC Video ; [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Originally aired in 1983 (261 mins.); Based on the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen;
Summary: True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished BBC production of Jane Austen’s celebrated novel set in 18th century England. Young, impoverished Fanny Price arrives at the elegant estate of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. Snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, she begins her long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives, who believe wealth automatically means quality.
OCLC #: 34885263
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Books on Film, David Giles, Mini-Series
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Little Women
Call Number: VHS00081
by George Cukor; Katharine Hepburn; Joan Bennett; Frances Dee; Louisa May Alcott; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.;
Language: English
Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1933 (116 mins.); Nominated for three 1934 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott;
Summary: The story of four sisters who grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. The story follows their joys and sorrows as they become the “little women” their father so proudly calls them.
OCLC #: 20237395
Also: See the later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy ( VHS00348) or the even later-released movie adaptation Little Women directed by Gillian Armstrong ( VHS00017)
Added: October 16, 2008
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Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, George Cukor
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Madame Bovary
Call Number: VHS00079
by Pandro S Berman; Vincente Minnelli; Gustave Flaubert; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1983.
Notes: Originally released in 1949 (114 mins.); Nominated for one 1950 Academy Award; Based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Summary: A story concerning a woman’s abandoned pursuit of love and the three men who loved her.
OCLC #: 26694575
Added: October 16, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Black and White, Books on Film, Vincente Minnelli
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
Call Number: DVD00025
by: Basil Rathbone; Nigel Bruce; Sidney Lanfield; Alfred Werker; John Rawlins; Roy William Neill; Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir; Robert Gitt; MPI Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : MPI Home Video, ©2006.
Notes: Originally produced as motion pictures, 1939-1946; Edition contains 14 films on 5 Discs (16.2 hrs.); Based on the stories or characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; All films were restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive except for Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The hound of Baskervilles; Special features: six audio commentaries; scene selection.
Chapters: Disc 1. Introduction by Robert Gitt ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The hound of the Baskervilles ; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; Sherlock Holmes and the voice of terror —
Disc 2. Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon ; Sherlock Holmes in Washington ; Sherlock Holmes faces death —
Disc 3. The spider woman ; The scarlet claw ; Pearl of death —
Disc 4. The house of fear ; The woman in green ; Pursuit to Algiers —
Disc 5. Terror by night ; Dressed to kill ; Additional bonus material. Photo galleries ; Theatrical trailers ; Footage of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Summary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
OCLC #: 70295287
Added: October 14, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Crime
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn
Call Number: DVD00022
by Alfred Hitchcock; Erich Pommer; Sidney Gilliat; Joan Harrison; Charles Laughton; Maureen O’Hara; Leslie Banks; Emlyn Williams; Robert Newton; Marie Ney; Wylie Watson; Daphne Du Maurier; Passion Productions.; Miracle Pictures (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Miracle Pictures, ©2003.
Notes: Originally released in 1939 (99mins.); Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier;
Summary: Near Cornwall, a bank of smugglers and cutthroats lure incoming ships to a rocky inlet where they are dashed to pieces and then raided. An undercover officer joins the band with hopes of thwarting them, but they soon discover his real identity.
OCLC #: 57513192
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Black and White, Books on Film, Crime
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Scarlet Pimpernel
Call Number: VHS00058
by Leslie Howard; Merle Oberon; Harold Young; Raymond Massey; Nigel Bruce; Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness; Memory Lane Video.; London Films.;
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
Tags:Black and White, Books on Film, Harold Young
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Reap the Wild Wind
Call Number: VHS00057
by Cecil B DeMille; John Wayne; Ray Milland; Paulette Goddard; Alan Le May; Charles Bennett; Jesse L Lasky; Thelma Strabel; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Language: English
Publisher: [Universal City, CA (70 Universal City Plaza, Universal City 91608)] : MCA Home Video, ©1989.
Notes: Originally released in 1942 (123 mins.); From the book by Thelma Strabel; Nominated for three Academy Awards.
Summary: Swashbuckling 1800’s epic set off the coast of Florida as sea captain Jack Stuart and lawyer Steve Tolliver struggle for the love of a southern belle and battle corrupt business practices.
OCLC #: 82968963
Added: October 13, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Tags:Award, Books on Film, Cecil B. DeMille
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