Films with: Curtiz, Michael

Adventures of Robin Hood

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.

DVD 4456

Angels with dirty faces

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.

DVD 6400

Captain Blood

DVD 4457

Casablanca

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.

DVD 2523

Doctor X

Doctor X: "An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by recreating the crimes in a lab."--Container. The return of Doctor X: "New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human blood. Barnett then finds a connection to a series of gruesome murders where the victims were all found drained of blood."--Col Needham, imdb.com.

DVD 6529

Dodge City

DVD 4494

Forbidden Hollywood collection.

Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of "pre-code" provocative filmmaking.

DVD 6360

House of wax

[House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive. [Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask.

DVD 6368

Life with father

Based on Clarence Day Jr.'s reminiscences of his semi-tyrannical but benevolent father.

DVD 274

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high society. Greedy, self-absorbed Veda is still ungrateful, and demands an even greater sacrifice of her mother. Eventually, Mildred finds herself ensnared in the world of police and suspicion when Monte is mysteriously murdered.

DVD 7586

Mission to Moscow

"In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades ... or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Academy Award winner Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov, Molotov and more. For its sometimes-sympathetic picture of Stalin's regime, the film sparked impassioned debate then and remains fascinating now, both for its insights into early American-Soviet relations and its urgent sense of the danger the emerging Axis Powers posed to the world"--Container.

DVD 9501

Night and day

"Swellegant and ellegant. Deluxe and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in the 20th century songwritting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant."

DVD 5969

Private lives of Elizabeth and Essex

This period drama sets the tumultuous on-again, off-again affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the second Earl of Essex against Essex's powerful ambition to assume the throne of England.

DVD 4491

Sea Hawk

A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.

DVD 4492

White Christmas

Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. 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.

DVD 3691

Yankee Doodle Dandy

A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.

DVD 5666