William Demarest
Language
English
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A small-town girl goes overboard with war-time patriotic zeal and marries a soldier she's only met once. He disappears after one night, then she thinks she's pregnant... but she just can't remember her husband's name. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** *"Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable...make it a lasting delight." - Geoff Andrew, **Time...
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Hope springs eternal when an office clerk (Dick Powell) mistakenly believes he's won a coffee slogan challenge and spends the 'prize money'."
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 7
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"A quirky soldier (Eddie Bracken) gets an unexpected homecoming when a group of uproarious Marines decides to 'make' a hero out of the comic misfit."
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
J.P. Merric, the richest man in the world, a tyrannical department store tycoon, nicknamed "the devil" by his maltreated employees, meets Miss Jones and becomes a perfect angel. Hoping to root out labor discontent, J.P. goes underground posing as a shoe salesman in his own store.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"An opportunist (Brian Donlevy) turns corruption into a promising political career but struggles to stay on top when he tries to go honest."
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a fellow racer and womaniser, gets in the way.
10) The Lady Eve
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
12) The great moment
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 6
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"This stirring biopic follows the fascinating life of W.T.G. Morton (Joel McCrea), a 19th century dentist who successfully develops the first anesthesia."
13) Whispering Smith
Series
Pub. Date
c2004, c1976
Language
English
Description
A no-nonsense railroad detective must bring an old friend to justice when he begins helping an outlaw to wreck trains.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Money makes the world go 'round, or so Gerry (Claudette Colbert) believes when she decides to divorce her struggling husband (Joel McCrea) to support him by marrying a millionaire."
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Katie Higgins is from a health-conscious family of swimmers. She falls in with con man Windy Weebe. The Higgins family decides to swim the English Channel in order to raise money to purchase a prize bull for their Arkansas farm. As she practices for the English Channel swim, Katie gets lost in the fog and is rescued by wealthy wine merchant Andre Lanet, and she falls for him hard. Katie's dream sequence features the animated cartoon characters Tom...
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 4
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"In this comedic masterpiece, a wealthy director (Joel McCrea) wants to find 'real' people for his next great film ... "
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Any Johhny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost at Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching out before him ... and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo's resolute Captain Roper. Yet there's a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
19) Along came Jones
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Along came Jones: Cowboy Melody Jones rides into town looking for work and is mistaken for the evil desperado Monte Jarrad. Jones lets all the special treatment go to his head until the real outlaw shows up looking for him.
Fury at showdown: A rancher trying to overcome his past as a notorious gunfighter is forced into violent retribution when his brother is killed by crooks who are after his property.
Pub. Date
?2014
Language
English
Description
The Music man: Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk.
Yankee Doodle Dandy: A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.
Seven brides for seven brothers: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.
Viva Las Vegas; A young man comes...