Paul Lukas
Author
Language
English
Description
Passengers on a scheduled train out of the mountainous European country of Mandrika are delayed by a day due to an avalanche, and thus get up close and personal with each other out of necessity in the only and what becomes an overcrowded inn in the area. Once the train departs, the one person who it is uncertain is on the train is a middle aged English governess named Miss Froy (Dame May Whitty).
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nice, tweedy old English woman disappears from her compartment on a European train. A young woman who wonders why becomes frantic when everyone tells her there never was such a person. A young man comes to her aid and they solve a criss-cross puzzle of espoinage, counter-espionage and attempted assassination.
Language
English
Description
After being fired from his job performing aboard a boat in Acapulco, Mike Windgren (Elvis Presley) is forced to take a job as a lifeguard at a nearby resort. When another lifeguard, Moreno (Alejandro Rey), grows jealous of Mike for upstaging him and moving in on his girl (Ursula Andress), the two clash. Mike soon discovers that Moreno is a champion cliff diver, a feat which leads Mike to confront his fear of heights and attempt a dive himself, hoping...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version (2.55:first).
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
5) Little women
Language
English
Description
This tale centers on the March household: mother "Marmee" and her four daughters; Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo, and chronicles this New England family's joys and tribulations during the Civil War. The girls are committed to "showing father proud," father being a minister gone off to meet the spiritual needs of Yankee soldiers at war. Buoyed by their mother, the girls learn the meaning of giving and sacrifice with a jollity that may be off-putting to jaded...
6) Dodsworth
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships.
7) Dodsworth
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sam Dodsworth is a rags-to-riches millionaire who finds that his money cannot bring him happiness. His unsatisfied wife, Fran, seeking glamour and sophistication, persuades him to take her on a grand tour of Europe, where she promptly deserts him for a romantic but penniless baron. Brokenhearted, Sam meets Edith, a widow who arouses passions he never thought he had and sets him on a collision course with his wife, unleashing a torrent of desire, betrayal,...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Larry Lawrence (Hope), a Manhattan radio commentator sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk and Larry are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter (Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Roustabout: Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle.
Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
Fun in Acapulco: A part-time lifeguard and night club singer romances two...
13) Fun in Acapulco
Author
Language
English
Description
Elvis heads south of the border, where he's fired as a boat hand, hired as a lifeguard and singer, admired by local beauties and inspired to jump off a 136-foot cliff. Put another way: he overcomes a fear of heights in spectacular fashion.
14) Kim
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 19th century India, Errol Flynn is the dashing horse-trader and secret British agent who enlists the aid of Kim O'Hara (Dean Stockwell) to help thwart enemy forces rising against England. Kim launches a series of perilous experiences as a courier and a spy.
15) Elvis: 5 movies
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
G.I. Blues: Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who gets out of the army and wants to open a club.
Elvis Presley, plays an ex-GI returning home to Hawaii. His mother wants him to climb the corporate ladder, but his work plans focus on being a tour guide.
Girls! girls! girls!: Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution, and racism, issues that the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. The Wet Parade: ... Demon whiskey brings ruin to two families in this all-star adaptation of Upton Sinclair's impassioned novel. Downstairs: ... A philandering chauffer creates havoc in an upper-class household. Mandalay: ... A Russian refugee seeks revenge upon the ex-lover who sold her into slavery. Massacre:...
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