John Lee Mahin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride because he's been drafted. Wearing a friendly, wide grin, he ambles into the U.S. Air Force, and most folk will never be the same, including pint-sized Ben, big-city bruiser Irvin and a jittery aptitude tester. Then there is Sgt. Orville King who is an old-timer driven crazy by Will's gee-whiz efforts at friendship.
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An action-packed drama set in Ceylon. Ruth a newlywed accompanies her new husband John, to his sprawling tea plantation called Elephant Walk, and then falls for overseer Dick. But this love triangle is soon dwarfed by other events. A cholera epidemic breaks out, drought blights the land and thirst-maddened elephants devastate the plantation in a thundering stampede.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When George Pratt (Stewart Granger) and Sam McCord (John Wayne) strike gold in Alaska, they must struggle to keep their fortune because of the constant interference from Frankie Canon (Ernie Kovacs), who wants to claim the gold for himself. After being ordered to find George's fiancée in Seattle, Sam discovers that she has already married another man. Unable to deliver George's fiancée, Sam decides to bring him a prostitute named Angel (Capucine)....
4) The bad seed
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they struggle to survive before help arrives.
7) Show boat
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The movie is a two-fisted bruiser of a rags-to-riches fight story, as fast and stinging as a workout on the punching bag. W.S. Van Dyke directs this saga of a has-been fight manager (Walter Huston) who rebuilds his career on the muscled back of a sailor (Baer) with lightning in his gloves and a mobster's moll (Loy) in his corner. The climactic scene pits Baer against then-reigning World Champion Primo Carnera (Baer would take his title the next year)...
10) Quo vadis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up as the adopted daughter of a retired Roman general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway. Meanwhile,...
11) Mogambo
Language
English
Description
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
12) Scarface
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of organized crime's control of the city of Chicago during prohibition and the ruthless drive of Tony Carmonte (Muni) to become the city's top gangster.
15) Show boat
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
16) The spiral road
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When an opportunistic physician (Rock Hudson) travels to the jungles of Java, a shocking meeting with a black magic witch doctor forces him to re-evaluate his selfish past.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Horse Soldiers. Colonell Marlowe is in command of a motley assortment of 1200 Union volunteers whose task-- and apparent suicide mission-- is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by his ferocious running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
Legend of the Lost. Two adventurers and a slave girl seek treasure in the Sahara.
The Alamo....
18) Combat America
Author
Language
English
Description
Produced and narrated by Hollywood legend Army First Lieutenant Clark Gable, Combat America is a thrilling and informative World War II propaganda film originally distributed by the United States Office of War Information. This documentary recounts the experiences of the 351st Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, based in England during World War II. The group's air and ground crews are followed through a number of bombing missions over...
19) Elephant Walk
Author
Language
English
Description
One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there. Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, and Dana Andrews star in this action-packed drama set in Ceylon. Taylor plays a newlywed who accompanies Finch to his sprawling tea plantation called Elephant Walk...and falls for overseer Andrews. But this love triangle is soon dwarfed by other events. A cholera epidemic breaks out, drought blights the land and herds of thirst-maddened elephants...
20) Naughty Marietta
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A French princess flees to New Orleans to avoid marrying a nobleman she doesn't love. In bayou country she falls for a swaggering soldier, who wards off pirates and a king to keep her.