Alfred Hitchcock
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : silent and sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
5) Vertigo
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scotty to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide, Scotty falls in love with her. She is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
6) Psycho
Series
Language
English
Description
Disgruntled Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She only gets to meet her lover Sam during lunch breaks and they cannot get married because of Sam's alimony high payments. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and run, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and...
8) Marnie
Language
English
Description
Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in hopes of helping her and discovering the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
9) Vertigo
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Scottie Ferguson, an acrophobic detective, is hired to shadow a friend's suicidal wife, Madeleine. After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's interest shifts from business to fascination with the icy, alluring blonde. When tragedy strikes and Madeleine dies, Scottie is devastated. But when he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future"--Container....
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 863 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young & innocent: The ex-boyfriend of a murdered actress must prove his innocence in her death. Blackmail: An artist is stabbed to death by a woman he tries to force to pose nude. Juno & the paycock: The matriarch of a family struggles to keep it together. Rich & strange: A young couple take a cruise and face unexpected adversity. The ring: An amateur boxer tries to make it professionally but his wife leaves him for the champ. Lodger: A man comes...
15) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man falsely accused of murder must uncover a secret organization in order to prove his innocence.
16) To catch a thief
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman falls in love with a reformed jewel thief, but suspects he's active again when a series of jewel heists occur.
17) To catch a thief
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
20) Rear window
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While watching his neighbors through the windows of the building next door, a wheelchair-bound photographer becomes convinced one of them has been murdered. Is it just his imagination? Or a case of a room with a view...to die for?