Films with: Arnold, Edward

Devil and Daniel Webster

Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.

DVD 3213

Easy living

"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.

DVD 10819

Edna Ferber's Come and get it!

Lumberman Barney Glasgow abandons saloon girl Lotta to marry a timber heiress only to fall for Lotta's beautiful daughter twenty years later. But this time, Barney has a rival for the young woman's love : his own son.--Container.

DVD 12592

Frank Capra's you can't take it with you

Comedy about the Sycamores, an eccentric family of free spirits, and the problems that arises when Alice, the one stable memeber, falls for her boss's son.

DVD 2135

Mae West the glamour collection /

Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were enough to seal her fame and launch a legend. In her first film appearance, "Night after night," a successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. As the bold Tira in "I'm no angel," she works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. For "Goin' to town," West goes Western. Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich. She falls for--and pursues--an upper crust Englishman. This is followed by "Go west young man," where she plays Mavis Arden, a movie star stranded in the country. To stifle her boredom, she trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee" pairs West with a legend of similar stature, W.C. Fields. As Flower Belle Lee, she is rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, and run out of Little Bend. Surprisingly, things change very little when she arrives in Greasewood City to start over.

DVD 10543

Meet John Doe

"John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to use the voting strength of the clubs to bludgeon his way to power. John Doe's resulting fight for democracy has a timeless, inspiring message for all Americans.

DVD 1025

Toast of New York

"With his partner Nick Boyd (Cary Grant), 19th century Wall Street buccaneer Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) employs high finance and low cunning to create an empire built on railroads, shipping lines, gold and flimflam. Boyd and Fisk are as thick as the thieves they are until they both fall for the same alluring, ambitious woman"--Container.

DVD 10883