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Double Indemnity
Call Number: DVD00007
by Billy Wilder; Fred MacMurray; Barbara Stanwyck; Edward G Robinson; Porter Hall; Jean Heather; Raymond Chandler; James M Cain; Paramount Pictures, inc.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, [2006]
Notes: 2-disc DVD set (107 mins); Universal Legacy Series; release of the 1944 motion picture; Nominated for seven 1944 Academy Awards; Based on the novel by James M. Cain; Special features: “Shadows of suspense”; audio commentary from film historian Richard Schickel; audio commentary with film historian/screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman; “Double indemnity” TV movie (1973, 75 min.).
Summary: Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband’s automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis’ husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
OCLC #: 68693776
Also: VHS format available under VHS00029.
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Double Indemnity
Friday, September 12th, 2008Wizard of Oz
Friday, September 12th, 2008Wizard of Oz
Call Number: VHS00006
by Dorothy Dwan; Larry Semon; Oliver Hardy; Bryant Washburn; Virginia Pearson; Josef Swickard; Mary Carr; Charlie Murray; Frank Alexander; Frank Joslyn Baum; Leon Lee; Leonard M Smith; Frank B Good; H F Koenenkamp; L Frank Baum; Larry Semon Productions.; Chadwick Pictures Corporation.; Grapevine Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Phoenix, AZ : Grapevine Video
Notes: 1925 silent film with organ accompaniment (65 mins);
Summary: A toymaker tells the bizarre story of the Land of Oz, ruled by Prince Kynd, who is overthrown by Prime Minister Kruel. Dorothy learns from Aunt Em that fat, cruel Uncle Henry is not her uncle and that she is actually Princess Dorothea of Oz, and is supposed to marry Prince Kynd. She, Uncle Henry, and two farmhands are swept to Oz by a tornado. Snowball, a black farmhand, soon joins them after a lightening bolt chases him into the sky. They land in Oz, where they try to avoid capture by disguising themselves as a scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and a lion.
Also: See the Victor Fleming directed, Wizard of Oz (VHS00575) and the Sidney Lumet directed The Wiz (VHS00653); Also, the Walter Murch directed Return to Oz (VHS00686);
OCLC #: 42828910
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection