Frank Sinatra
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
Classic movie musicals : stage & screen. Career girl, The fabulous Dorseys, Royal wedding, Second chorus, Up in the air and more.
Singin' in the Rain "Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures, and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol is caught in that bumpy transition, as well as his buddy, prospective ladylove and shrewish co-star"--Container.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
American combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) 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...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Part fact, part fiction, Cast a Giant Shadow powerfully dramatizes Israel's heroic 1947-48 struggle for independence. Both realistic war story and passionate romance, the film centers on the legendary David "Mickey" Marcus. Jewish-American general Marcus is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes.
6) Ocean's 11
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001, c1960
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
The place is Las Vegas. The time: Midnight, New Year's Eve. Danny Ocean and 10 of his ex-commando buddies get ready to rob the casino money vault - at five casinos simultaneously!
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2007?]
Edition
Digitally remastered.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly: Gunmen take over a suburban house in a small midwestern town called Suddenly with a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. The man with the golden arm: Frankie Machine, card dealer and former heroin addict, gets out of jail and tries to build a new life.
9) Suddenly!
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
200-?]
Language
English
Description
The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
The Oscar-winning 1953 classic, finally on DVD. At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love.
11) On the town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Three sailors have a 24-hour shore leave to enjoy New York. They are especially concerned with the female inhabitants of the city, and each finds his own to cuddle up with. Chip tries but can't resist the advances of a cab driver, Ozzie gladly fills the role of a lovely anthropologist's "prehistoric man," and Gabey finds the model who poses for the Miss Turnstiles advertisements, who isn't quite the glamorous celebrity he envisioned.
13) Anchors aweigh
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two lovesick sailors on shore leave in Hollywood fall hard for the same beautiful singer. The race for Susie's heart leads them both into a series of comical and musical adventures.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood.