Michael Curtiz
2) "Casablanca"
Series
AFI's 100 years 100 movies volume no. 2
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
"Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazi's most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo ... whose only hope is Rick Blaine ... a cynical American...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. They discover that the inn is run by the fella's old army general who's now in financial trouble.
Publisher
Paramount
Description
There’s something funny about those two new priests. In fact, there’s something downright hilarious. Because Robert De Niro and Sean Penn aren’t clergymen at all. They’re escaped cons whose only prayer is to pass themselves off as men of the cloth...and pass right by a police blockade at the border and into the safety of Canada. Demi Moore joins De Niro and Penn in this clever romp scripted by David Mamet. The cons are loose and the comedy...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.
8) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Series
Formats
Description
Dashing Errol Flynn triumphs in this lavish, fast-paced version of the Robin Hood legend, a winner of three Academy Awards in ravishing Technicolor. Doing many stunts himself, Flynn is at his athlettic, romantic best in a role originally intended for James Cagney. Olivia de Haviland (as Maid Marian), consummate screen villains Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains, and a boisterous who's who of character actors costar. Welcome to Sherwood!
10) White Christmas
Formats
Description
"Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble."--Container....
13) Santa Fe Trail
Series
Description
In this historical drama, Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern cavalryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas where they must battle the abolitionist John Brown. This experience causes them to examine their personal feelings about slavery.
14) The Sea Hawk
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
19) Life with father
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Based on Clarence Day Jr.'s reminiscences of his semi-tyrannical but benevolent father.
20) King Creole
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.