Universal Pictures (Firm)
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 417 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (725 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From his early days on stage in vaudeville and Broadway through his live appearance on radio, W.C. Fields created an iconic persona that has never been matched. The comic genius of Fields is best captured forever in his body of films that highlight his notoriously sarcastic quick wit and slapstick routines. In these ten films, see W.C. Fields at his best.
Series
Universal Classic Monsters. Complete 30-Film Collection volume 1933-1951
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist who makes himself invisible finds he can't reverse the process, and is driven into madness and murder; after a man is falsely imprisoned he takes a drug that will make him invisible and also drive him mad; an attractive model volunteers for an experiment with an invisibility machine; the grandson of the invisible man uses a secret formula to spy on Germany in World War II; a scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible; two...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (407 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The mummy (1932): "In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege. Also found in the tomb is the Scroll of Thoth, which can bring the dead back to life. One night a young member of the expedition reads the Scroll out loud, and then goes insane, realizing that he has brought Im-Ho-Tep back to life. Ten years later, disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (958 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The eagle and the hawk : World War I drama about rival pilots with opposing codes of honor and a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost : World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
Wake Island : Based on the true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Bengal...
