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(0)Darryl Francis Zanuck
Series
Language
English
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, the Far East island of Borneo is captured by the Japanese. Based on true events this is the story of American author Agnes Newton Keith who along with her husband, a British administrator, is arrested. Their family is separated and placed into different prison camps. The camp commander takes an avid interest in the authoress, but does not intervene when she is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the...
Language
English
Description
Complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy through the eyes of all its participants. D-Day was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in France during Operation Overlord, beginning the 6th of June, 1944, and was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It began with overnight parachute and glider landings, air attacks, naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious landing.
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the famous novel by writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, Shirely portrays Sara, the pampered daughter of a British officer. Left in a boarding school when her father goes off to war, her world is turned upside down when he is reported dead. Destitute, Sara is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 14
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Adaptation of a classic children's novel and stage play by Frances Hodgson Burnett, adorable Sara Crewe is treated like a little princess at her boarding school. But when reports of her father's death in the Boer War surface, she is forced into servitude towards other girls. The unflappable youngster steps up to the challenge of her new lot in life, and ultimately wins over the hearts of wealthy neighbors - and even Queen Victoria herself - as she...
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 in.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 147 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In The Little Princess, Shirley Temple rises from an under priviledged background in Victorian London to fame, fortune, and an audience with the queen. The Shirley Temple Festival consists of four early short comedies.
13) Heidi
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion to a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
Series
Studio classic volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
16) People will talk
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relations with Mr. Shunderson.
18) Les misérables
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Valert.
