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1) The women
Series
Language
English
Description
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A cop has been put in charge of protecting a gangster's girlfriend as she is being transported from Chicago to L.A. by train to testify before a grand jury. He has his work cut out, though, as there are hitmen on the train that are after her.
Series
Language
English
Description
A romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Arthur Chipping is the new Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpected falls in love. His new wife ignites...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Life and adventures of Santa Claus: A human baby is found and raised in the magical forest of Burzee. The only human to ever be allowed into the forest, young Nicholas soon seeks adventures that change the lives of children forever. This magical tale lets you in on all the secrets behind Christmas. Why do reindeer pull the sleigh? How does Santa make all the Christmas toys in time? ...
Nestor the long-eared Christmas donkey: A long time ago in a...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family in the waning days of World War II, Petey expects a merry Christmas. Instead she gets a tangled web of mobsters, cheating wives, war-traumatized vets and the kind of love that grabs hold fast and goes wrong faster"--Container....
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Videos
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid of her, but with love and patience they finally manage to integrate her into the family. Just then Anne invites another orphan, the aggressive handicapped Jimmy-John, to their...
8) The search
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survivied Auschwitz wanders alone -- feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human...
9) Split second
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Escaped killers led flee a Nevada prison to the ghost town of Yucca Flats, even though a nuclear blast is set to detonate there at 6 a.m. the following morning. Drawing a hapless group of passersby into their circle of desperation, the killers hold court over a night of suspense and terror.
11) The unsuspected
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros
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
12) Bachelor mother
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control.
13) High wall
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Steven Kenet (Robert Taylor) says he killed his wife, but even he doesn't really know. ... So Kenet enters a psych ward where, the DA asserts, he'll hide behind the wall of an insanity plea. But truth cannot hide. And Kenet - assisted by a ward doctor (Audrey Totter) - is driven to find the truth."--Container.
14) The human comedy
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
15) The locket
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the mental disintegration of bride-to-be Laraine Day. As a child, Day was accused of stealing a locket at a fancy party. She has spent her life getting even for this false accusation by becoming a kleptomaniac and ruining the lives of those around her. She drives one man to suicide, and stands by as another man is executed for a murder which she has committed. Assuming her revenge on the world is complete when she becomes engaged to the son...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Takes place among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma and explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.
17) The window
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Yogi and his little pal, Boo-Boo, are usually hibernating during the Christmas season, but this year they're awakened when Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy come to Jellystone Lodge for the holiday.
19) Athena
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
If a suitor wants to win the heart of one of the seven Mulvain sisters, he'd better be ready to deadlift 300 lbs. and dine on shredded-parsnip soufflé. Combining the then-novel topic of physical fitness with Hollywood song and dance, an eat-your-veggies romantic romp highlighted by catchy Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane tunes and socko color cinematography.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
April 14, 1865. As four years of Civil War draw to a close, our country again faces unforgettable tragedy. Minute by minute, killer and victim edge closer to the event at Ford's Theatre that stopped Lincoln's heart, and shattered the country's soul.
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