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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis rose from the ranks of Warner Bros. contract players to become a screen superstar when she was loaned out to RKO to appear in John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Leslie Howard (Gone with the wind) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Undeterred by Mildred's obvious contempt of him (and her disgust for his...
2) Hell's house
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful...
5) Marked woman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers, its czar, and his underlings.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What Stanley Timberlake wants, she takes. So, on the eve of her marriage, she runs off with her sister's husband, the first of many betrayals that lead to disaster, and to a compulsively watchable brew of deceit, racial bigotry, latent incest and violent death.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Dark victory
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Judith Traherne, a dying heiress, is determined to find happiness in her few remaining months.
11) The great lie
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tempestuous and ambitious concert pianist Sandra Kovac shares a bond with down-to-earth Maggie Van Allen and her little boy, Pete. Sandra's chic New York friends can't imagine what the two women have in common. What they don't know is that Pete is Sandra's son - the son of the heroic aviator both women love.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Henriette is the governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin and his jealous wife. When governess and nobleman are drawn to each other, the Duchess erupts in fury and meets a bloody fate. Soon Henriette and the Duc face a world eager to believe the Duc murdered his wife and that the gentle Henriette was a willing accomplice.
15) The old maid
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c1939
Language
English
Description
Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920's, 6-year-old Baby Jane Hudson becomes an enormously successful child star in vaudeville while her older sister, Blanche, is forced to remain quietly in the background. As the two reach maturity, however, Jane loses both her appeal and her talent, and Blanche develops into a beautiful and renowned film actress. Then, at the height of her career, Blanche is crippled in an automobile accident for which the alcoholic Jane is held responsible....
17) The letter
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
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