James Stewart
2) Harvey
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A pleasant and very polite middle-aged drunk is friends with an imaginary white rabbit. His sister, embarrassed by his behavior, tries to have him committed.
Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. His sister is determined to marry her daughter off and decides to commit her brother to a mental hospital to get him out of the way. Due to a mix-up the sister is committed instead, and it is up...
3) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
Series
Language
English
Description
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
5) Vertigo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
6) Rear window
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aviation and sports come together in STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND. This 1955 American film is starring James Stewart and June Allyson, and is directed by Anthony Mann. Robert "Dutch" Holland (James Stewart) is a professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals. As a former B-29 bomber pilot during World War II, he is also an officer on inactive status in the United States Air Force Reserve. During spring training in St. Petersburg, Florida, he is...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Made for each other: Newlyweds in Hollywood's Golden Age must overcome poverty, career pressures, and illness. The power of their love sees them through. Pot o' gold: An idle young rich man signs on with a struggling swing band, and convinces his uncle to put the band on the air.
11) The shootist
Series
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, hostile locals, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus. Celebrating the extravagant three-ring circus, this classic film from Cecil B. DeMille depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth. Winner of Best Picture and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director, and Best Cinematography - Color at the **Golden...
15) Shenandoah
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence.
Language
English
Description
Ransom Stoddard is a successful, but aging U.S. senator, who along with his wife, Hallie, returns to a small western town. They are there to attend the funeral of Tom Doniphon. A young local reporter presses Stoddard for an interview about why he has come to Doniphon's funeral and Doniphon begins to tell a story. Years ago he came to town as young newly-graduated attorney. He was bullied by Liberty Valance, a local tough outlaw, a gunman employed...
20) Bandolero!
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The warring Bishop brothers must join forces to escape a death sentence.