Clark Gable
Language
English
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Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War starting arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
4) The misfits
Series
Language
English
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Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
5) Dancing lady
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A Broadway chorine needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut, shows the lady how it's done. Three film icons give the backstage musical a jolt of superstar electricity in a song-, dance-, and romance-filled extravaganza.--Container
8) Boom town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In search of black-gold fortunes, two men will dream, scheme and team up to become rich. Things between the friends get rough, as one man steals the love of a woman from the other.
Author
Publisher
Whittlesey House
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
Adolphe Menjou is the man who made "suave" a noun. ("For this part we want somebody with plenty of suave--you know, the Menjou-type.") This memoir is, above all else, suave. It took nine tailors and thirty-five years as Hollywood's beloved man-about-town to make Adolphe Menjou what he is today. The autobiographical story begins with Menjou a waiter in his father's "Maison Menjou" in New York and ends in the present. It was Menjou's mustache and a...
10) Strange cargo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gritty drama of escaped cons and a dame confronting the elements and each other after a daring prison break.
11) The misfits
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Divorced and disillusioned Roslyn befriends a group of 'misfits,' including an aging cowboy, a heartbroken mechanic and a worn-out rodeo rider. Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle, Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom, exhilaration and passion. But when her innocent idealism clashes with their hard-edged practicality, Roslyn must risk losing their friendship and the only true love she's ever known.
12) Teacher's pet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A newspaper editor poses as a student in order to attract a journalism teacher who despises him.
14) Mogambo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye.
15) Band of angels
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Presents the classic 1957 film featuring Clark Gable as a southern plantation owner who buys a young southern belle when her part-African heritage is revealed.
17) Painted desert
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"A villain stirs up the hatreds of two old-time feudists so he can get his hands on their properties. An engineer reveals his his dastardly plot and reconciles the old boys." --
"Biography of Clark Gable's life and career." --
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
19) Lone star
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Will Texas be independent or a U.S. state? Ex-President Andrew Jackson recruits cattleman Devereaux Burke to travel through hostile Indian land, find Texas hero Sam Houston and persuade him to support annexation. In exchange, Burke will gain a contract to sell beef to U.S. forces during the war with Mexico sure to follow statehood.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.