Bette Davis
Series
Criterion collection volume 1003
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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One night, Margo Channing entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington. But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued critic, as stepping-stones to stardom. The multiple-Oscar-winning film is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the...
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English
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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....
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English
Description
Blanche, a famous Hollywood star, is crippled in a car accident and must be taken care of by her sister Jane, a former child star jealous of her sister's fame. As the hatred between the two sisters grows, Jane begins to torture her ailing sister. This title has been repackaged.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple becomes caught up in a mystery involving poisoning and murder on a baronial estate (Murder with mirrors). While on vacation Miss Marple is plunged into murder involving an incriminating photo (Caribbean mystery). Lavinia Fullerton (Helen Hayes) is killed en route to Scotland Yard where she was to disclose the name of a murderer in her village. Luke Williams takes up the case (Murder is easy).
10) Now, voyager
Series
Criterion collection volume 1004
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip, but will she find fulfillment...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
12) Dead ringer
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Sibling twins are caught in a web of jealousy and murder in this goosebumpy thriller.
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English
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It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett.
14) Old acquaintance
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis plays established writer Kit Marlowe, whose friend Millie, a melodramatic writer of trashy novels, is envious of Kit's husband and child. The 20-year friendship endures until Kit meets an exciting new man, and their friendship is put to the test.
15) Now, voyager
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
16) Fog over Frisco
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A party girl gets involved in a stolen securities scheme.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blanche, a famous Hollywood star, is crippled in a car accident and must be taken care of by her sister Jane, a former child star jealous of her sister's fame. As the hatred between the two sisters grows, Jane begins to torture her ailing sister. This title has been repackaged.
19) Dangerous
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Joyce Heath falls in love with a new man, and tries to get rid of her husband.