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62) The longest day
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of the Allied invasion in Normandy during World War II. Details D-Day landing from the points of view of those who participated: the Germans, the French, the English and the Americans.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hetty is a 60-year-old housewife, a late bloomer, who sets up shop as a private eye to supplement her husband's meager pension. With moral authority, salt-of-the-earth candor, and a fully-loaded handbag, Hetty dispenses hard-boiled justice and motherly empathy in equally satisfying doses. Geoffrey, a destitute teenager, becomes Hetty's trusted and able sidekick. Her husband, Robert, also lends a hand.
64) In America
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love again.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Doctor Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big horse race. The doctor runs into some problems. The doctor runs a high priced clinic for the well-off who do not have a clue that he has a degree in Veterinary Medicine.
69) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
70) Sunset Boulevard
Language
English
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1992
Language
English
Description
For years a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangness and finds that Holmes is falling in love.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
First the portrait of a wealthy village forefather is found slashed to shreds in the local museum. Then a string of unearthly happenings in the museum and its graveyard terrify the community. Barnaby and Troy are called upon to separate fact from fiction.
74) The tenant
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1976
Language
English
Description
A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
76) Cora unashamed
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
77) Sharpe's rifles
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a maverick British officer who fights behind French lines in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Schoolchildren believe that Winyard, a secluded and long-abandoned house is haunted. But when a young couple looking to buy the property gets garroted, Barnaby recruits Detective Constable Ben Jones to help him catch a very corporeal killer.
80) Sliding doors
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.
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