Edith Head
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of one of Hollywood's most controversial costume designers describes her early work as a sketch artist in 1923, four decades as Paramount's top designer, numerous Oscar nominations and awards, and complex personal life.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the early days after the Civil War, Johnny, a vaudeville sharpshooter, tries to outrun his past as a hero in the Confederate Army. But when some ex-Confederate miners need protection from Unionists and corrupt lawmen who run Copper Canyon, Johnny decides to fight for justice. Along the way he wins the heart of a local beauty.
5) Houseboat
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002, c1958]
Language
English
Description
Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
6) Vertigo
Series
Language
English
Description
Widescreen. Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
7) Road to Bali
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unscrupulous South Sea island prince.
8) Hud
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all-time high.
9) The birds
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
10) Sabrina
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family returns from Paris and dazzles the family's two sons.
11) Sunset Boulevard
Language
English
Description
Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad,...
12) Hatari!
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa capture big game for zoos and circus attractions.
13) Donovan's reef
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A depiction of the wild life in Tinseltown's early days. A story about the ruthless tycoon who built a multi-million dollar empire. Includes a striptease performance atop a glittering chandelier that helped to break the Production Code.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
16) Double indemnity
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
17) Topaz
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling spy novel bursts onto the screen in this riveting story of adventure and international intrigue. An American CIA agent hires a French operative to travel to Cuba and intestigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, a NATO spy. The inquiry soon spins into a life-threatening escapade of espionage, betrayal and murder.
18) The sting
Series
Language
English
Description
Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol.