William Dieterle
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A simple act of pity from a gypsy girl frees the emotions within the mocked, vilified and hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame. When the girl is later wrongly condemned, the bellringer rescues her from hanging, sweeping all of Paris into a fight for justice.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Gösta Ekman stars as the titular alchemist who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific. This special Kino edition contains the Friedrich Wilhelm Muranu Foundation's meticulous restoration of the original German version...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the devil himself. In exchange for seven years of good fortune, Stone promises "Mr. Scratch" his soul. But when the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. Directed with stylish flair...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A midsummer night's dream: Cagney, de Havilland, Rooney and others play foolish mortals and immortals in this winner of 2 Academy Awards. Othello: A proud general brought low. Romeo and Juliet: A lavish retelling of the world's foremost romantic tale. Anthony and Cleopatra: A thoughtful and colorful adaptation of the fatal attraction that ensnares the worldly ROman soldier and the alluring Egyptian ruler.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A midsummer night's dream: Cagney, de Havilland, Rooney and others play foolish mortals and immortals in this winner of 2 Academy Awards. Othello: A proud general brought low. Romeo and Juliet: A lavish retelling of the world's foremost romantic tale. Anthony and Cleopatra: A thoughtful and colorful adaptation of the fatal attraction that ensnares the worldly ROman soldier and the alluring Egyptian ruler.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. Later, his determined intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, at the request of Dreyfus's wife Lucie, results in "J'accuse!", his famous denunciation of the Army, and leads...
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane,...