Peter Ustinov
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of humorous stories with international settings. In The Loneliness of Billiwoonga, a Jewish death camp survivor in Australia finds himself doing business with a Nazi, Dreams of Papua is a spoof on a meeting of Soviet and American presidents, and the Assassins is on retired killers in France.
3) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
4) Lola Montès
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
5) Topkapi
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Fun-filled and suspenseful, it's an incredibly ingenious affair and a considerable pleasure to watch. Trouble brews beneath the exotically curved towers of Istanbul when the equally exotic and equally curved Elizabeth Lipp recruits her former lover in a scheme to heist the pride of the city's Topkapi museum: a jewel-encrusted dagger. But the "job" soon turns into a high-tension, high wire act, when the bumbling fall guy and other amateurs they've...
6) Hot millions
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A dapper rogue uses a corporation's mainframe computer to issue checks to bogus companies, then proceeds to cash the checks.
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