James Mason
2) Lolita
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
3) Salem's Lot
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's Lot comes a stranger who unleashes an insidious evil so devastating it threatens to destroy the entire town and everyone in it. Ben Mears, a young novelist, returns home to Salem's Lot, determined to write a book about the eerie old Marsten House which overlooks the town. It is Mears' conviction that the source of all the trouble is the house itself, which he believes attracts evil to it. With the help of his...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman: All men seem hopelessly obsessed with Pandora, a nightclub singer on vacation in Spain, but she has eyes only for Hendrick, who has been cursed to sail the seven seas for all eternity in search of a woman who will sacrifice her life for him.
The living idol: Set in Mexico, mysterious deaths revolve around an ancient stone idol. A reporter, his girfriend and an university professor find themselves in the middle of...
7) Genghis Khan
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015], ©2015
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Genghis Khan's rise from captive slave boy to daring guerrilla leader, to confidant and ally of the Emperor of China, to savior of the Empire against barbarian invaders.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
10) A star is born
Language
English
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Series
Miriam collection volume 2
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, the philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral, Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for...
Publisher
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Morning departure: On a routine peacetime mission, the crew of HM Submarine Trojan runs afoul of an electrically operated mine, leftover from the war. An unavoidable explosion sends the ship plunging to the seabed. Emergency signals are sent, and the Captain assembles the survivors to make an escape plan. Some can escape, but others will have to wait for the rescuers to arrive.
Tiara Tahiti: Brett is the nephew of a wealthy uncle, and envied by Clifford...
15) The wicked lady
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Margaret Lockwood devours the screen as a tightly wound seventeenth-century beauty with loose morals, who steals her best friend's wealthy fiance on the eve of their wedding. And that's only the beginning; there are no depths to which this sinful woman won't sink. James Mason costars as a highwayman with whom our anti-heroine becomes entangled.
16) Odd man out
Series
Criterion collection volume 754
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered. He is given a choice: either face a horrible death by...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Von Ryan's express (widescreen, 1965, 117 min.): Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgment, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
Tora! tora! tora! (widescreen, 1970, 144 min.): A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
Blue Max (widescreen,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
Saboteur: A factory worker is falsely accused of sabotage and sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase to clear his name.
Shadow of a doubt: A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Rope: Two friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family while their former teacher becomes...