Films & Other Videos
Films with: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- All about Eve
- 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.
- DVD 602
- Cleopatra
- 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.
- DVD 4919
- Fury
- A once decent man becomes ruthless and bitter when he's falsely accused of a crime and becomes a target for a lynch mob. He escapes, but refuses to let his survival be known, so his attackers can be charged with murder.
- DVD 3654
- Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- 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!
- DVD 5916
- Guys and dolls
- A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.
- DVD 236
- Letter to three wives
- Slice of Americana about three women on a group vacation receiving a letter from a flirt who has run off with one of their husbands- but who leaves the wives guessing as to which husband's been stolen.
- DVD 7636
- Myrna Loy and William Powell collection.
- A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's sister, before they admit their feelings for each other.
- DVD 5940
- No way out
- When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
- DVD 13204
- Philadelphia story
- A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
- DVD 3487
- Sleuth
- Best-selling author of detective fiction Andrew Wyke lives a wealthy but lonely life in a grand 16th century mansion. Receiving a visit from hairdresser Milo Tindle, who happens to be his wife's lover, Andrew is clear from the onset that he is aware of the infidelity, but keen to turn the misfortune so it benefits all three parties. Hatching a scheme to involve Milo in a cunning robbery against himself in order to claim insurance monies in lieu of potential alimony, Andrew puts into a play high-stakes game of dark deceptions where nothing is as it seems and the endgame could mean murder.
- DVD 12705
- Suddenly, last summer
- 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.
- DVD 1879
- William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
- An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- DVD 5868