Richard Brooks
1) Key Largo
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
5) Elmer Gantry
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Set in post World War II. American military reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives on investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devastating tragedy.
9) Crossfire
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
A police captain (Young) methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier (Ryan) with a rabid hatred of Jews.
10) Dollars
Series
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A call girl teams up with a security expert to steal money from the safety deposit boxes of three crooks.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend. He finds he is still regarded by others as an unsavory and unwelcome hustler, especially by the father of his ex-girlfriend, a local political boss." --
Publisher
Distributed by Nocturnal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
English
Description
Story of a young woman trying to escape the claustrophobic atmosphere of her family and search for her own identity. By day she is a compassionate teacher of deaf children; by night she seeks uninvolved sexual encounters; she is challenged to integrate the various aspects of her life.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have a difference in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the crack...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexe; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find...
Publisher
EastWest DVD
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Last time I saw Paris: "An American WWII veteran relives his memories of the dazzle, romance, and hard times in the postwar City of Lights."--Container back.
Man on the Eiffel Tower: "A down and out medical student in Paris is paid to murder his wealthy aunt."--Container back.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: When Kay Dunstan tells her father that she's going to have a baby, Stanley Banks has to cope with being a grandfather for the first time. Sequel to Father of the Bride.
Last time I saw Paris: Charles returns to Paris to reminisce about the life he led in Paris after it was liberated, and the novel he writes about his post World War II experiences divide his family.
