Trevor Howard
1) Lola
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Edition
Digital Gold Collection.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged erotica novelist writer falls for one of his fans, a young English teenager. When they marry and move to America, the introverted writer has a hard time adjusting to his new wife's life of parties and drinking.
3) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Twenty-fifth anniversary ; [Collector's edition].
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
Series
Criterion collection volume 375
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan is shot down over Nazi-controlled Italy and joins U.S. and English WWII troops in a prison camp during the summer of 1943. Given the insulting nickname "Von Ryan" because he initially seems more concerned with surviving than escaping, the colonel eventually leads Allied prisoners, as their new top ranking officer, in a daredevil race for freedom by commandeering an entire German freight train bound for Switzerland,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
10) Kidnapped
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The battlefield of Culloden is awash with the blood of Scottish Highlanders making their last stand against the Hanoverian forces. Against this wartorn backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion, the young orphan David Balfour seeks to claim his inheritance from his uncle Ebenezer, who in turn shanghais David into slavery.
11) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two married people, both unsatisfied with their relationships, meet on a train platform in London and fall in love.
12) Brief Encounter
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is a poignant and beautifully crafted love story. Laura Jesson accidentally meets a man, Dr Alex Harvey, at a railway station. As their acquaintance grows, so does their love for each other despite both being married with children. On the brink of an affair and desperately in love, the two must make a choice that may part them forever.
13) The third man
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.
14) The key
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In war-weary London, Stella allows the key to her apartment to be passed from sea captain to sea captain. But when David Ross shows up she finds herself in love. The previous men have all died at sea; will David fall prey to the curse that befell the others?
Series
Criterion collection volume 603
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disc 1. In which we serve. The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for. Disc 2. This happy breed. The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Expanded edition.
Language
English
Description
As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal Lex Luthor and his cohorts as they attempt to destroy California by activating the San Andreas fault.
17) The third man
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious...
19) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Twenty-fifth anniversary.
Language
English
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A satirical re-telling of tragic events during the Crimean War. "British Captain Nolan is a devoted officer disgusted with his commander, Lord Cardigan. Lord Raglan is a foolish officer with misguided war strategies and a fading memory. Together, they are sent to Turkey in response to a Russian invasion. Driven by arrogance and ineptitude, they send hundreds of cavalry to certain death ..."--Container.
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