Joseph L Mankiewicz
Pub. Date
[2002, c1947]
Description
Recent widow Lucy Muir rents a house by the ocean which turns out to be haunted by a cantankerous sea captain. Although difficult at first, their friendship blossoms and the captain even "ghostwrites" an autobiographical book to bring money for her. Eventually, the unlikely pair fall in love, only to be challenged when a flesh-and-blood suitor appears on the scene.
2) Sleuth
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Two equally matched adversaries masterfully conspire the perfect crime in an intricate, intriguing, and unpredictable contest of wills and wits.
Pub. Date
2002
Description
At the turn of the century a young widow and her daughter move into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
5) 5 fingers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
During World War II, the valet of the British ambassador to Ankara begins selling secret files to the Nazis.
Series
Studio classic volume 39
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A young priest, Father Chisholm, is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese.
Series
Studio classic volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Description
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
10) Cleopatra
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
12) Cleopatra
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Story of the life of Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt from her ascension to the throne through her struggle for power and her loves and entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
At the turn of the century, a young widow moves with her daughter into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
14) Guys and dolls
Pub. Date
1938.
Description
A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.
16) 5 fingers
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
In Turkey, the valet of the British ambassador offers the German ambassador priceless documents about the Allies for fantastic fees. But the British soon suspect the leaks and dispatch an investigator to learn the spy's identity.
18) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
1953
Description
An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
19) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
One of the best movie adaptations of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Pub. Date
2011, p1951
Description
Brando plays Stanley Kowalski to Vivien Leigh's Blanche Du Bois in a study of contrasting characters and value systems--new versus old: modern culture vs. the old South; Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a comedy about an interpreter sent to Japan after World War II; Southern Gothic based on an army base in Georgia about a sexually repressed army officer whose...