Michael Curtiz
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband."--Container
Series
Publisher
Front Row Entertainment Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Based on the stage presentation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier musical. In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiance until the war is over.
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret (Whitman) but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a violent band of gunrunners and thieves known as the Comancheros. The last film of director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
8) House of wax
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
[House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive.
[Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask.
Series
Criterion collection volume 889
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer (Wallace...
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