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1) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
2) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the preliminary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
4) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
Language
English
Description
"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives of investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devasting tragedy.
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
10) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
When a young wife accustomed to champagne and caviar finds married life means weenies and beans, The Bride Walks Out. This brisk, engaging comedy asks "Can love conquer all, especially on a $35-a-week budget?" And, of course, through bills and battles, quarrels and quirks, the answer is "yes."
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer who returns to Paris and remembers the life he once led in the City of Lights. During the Liberation of Paris, at the close of World War II, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful rich girl. They marry and have a lovely daughter together. But life's harsh realities threaten to tear their love apart.
14) Prelude To War
Author
Language
English
Description
This Oscar winner for Best Documentary was the official World War II Government film statement identifying the various enemies of the Allies. Prelude to War was the first film in Frank Capra's seven-film Why We Fight film series and is preserved at the National Film Registry as mandated by the United States Library of Congress. Featuring narration by Walter Huston, plus archival footage of Adolph Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other key figures...
16) My foolish heart
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
An impetuous girl becomes pregnant, then marries her best friend's fiancé in order to hide the truth of a previous illicit romance with another man.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde, " but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra oversaw this wartime documentary effort, which stitches together newsreel and archival film to explore relations between Russia and the United States. The film also recounts Russia's military history using stock footage and clips from Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. Particular attention is paid to the Battle of Stalingrad, during which Soviet forces fended off Nazi troops attempting to seize control of...
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a writer who returns to Paris and remembers the life he once led in the City of Lights. During the Liberation of Paris, at the close of World War II, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful rich girl. They marry and have a lovely daughter together. But life's harsh realities threaten to tear their love apart.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick's cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick's life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver's are an English 'middle-class' family who, together, experience life in the first months...
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