David O. Selznick
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
5) Notorious
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When troubled beauty Alicia Huberman is recruited by American agent T.R. Devlin to infiltrate a German spy ring in postwar Rio, she accepts. When she receives orders to seduce a Nazi kingpin, Alicia must sacrifice the only happiness she's ever known for a perilous mission that could ultimately cost her and Devlin their lives.
6) Reckless
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A Broadway star married for love. The tabloids say she murdered for money. ... [Jean Harlow] plays musical star Mona Leslie, the bride of a champagne-stewed blueblood. When he blows his brains out, Mona is suspected of his murder, igniting a media frenzy"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When her father is hanged for killing his wife, the stunning beauty Pearl (Jones) is taken in by a wealthy Texan, his wife and their two grown sons (Peck and Cotten). But Pearl soon becomes trapped in an emotional tug-of-war between her love for one son and her lust for the other, igniting the a tempestuous triangle.
8) Dancing lady
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"A Broadway chorine needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut, shows the lady how it's done. Three film icons give the backstage musical a jolt of superstar electricity in a song-, dance-, and romance-filled extravaganza."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Period romance. War epic. Family saga. Popular fiction adapted with crowd-pleasing brilliance. Star acting aglow with charisma and passion. Moviemaking craft at its height. These are sublimely joined in the words Gone with the Wind. This dynamic and durable screen entertainment of the Civil War-era South comes home with the renewed splendor of a new 70th Anniversary high-definition release capturing a higher resolution 1080p image from Restored Picture...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.
12) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
13) The third man
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A pulp fiction writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna at the invitation of a friend who has offered him a job. Once there, he discovers that a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market and his friend has recently died in a mysterious traffic accident. As he begins to unravel the story behind his friend's death, he finds himself entangled in the black market, the police, and his friend's Czech girlfriend. Includes commentary, interviews,...