James Mason
Language
English
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Description
The scene is post-war Berlin. Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) arrives in the city to stay with her brother and his German wife, Bettina. Reluctantly, Bettina takes Susanne into the Eastern Sector where they meet Ivo Kern (James Mason), a former lawyer who is being blackmailed into luring a man called Kastner to East Berlin, who is helping refugees to escape to the West. Sensing Susanne's attraction to the rogue ex-lawyer, Bettina confesses that she...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
5) Lolita
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.
8) Salem's Lot
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...
9) Salem's Lot
Pub. Date
[1979]
Edition
Standard version.
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...
10) Forever, darling
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A couple experiences difficulty in their marriage. Then a Guardian Angel appears with a few surprises to set them on the road to marital bliss.
11) The verdict
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which turns out to be a last chance at redeeming himself and his career.
12) The Desert Rats
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Story of the Allied troops who held Rommel at bay in North Africa despite being hopelessly outnumbered.
13) The destructors
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Three men are trained in a unique way of dealing with their enemies. Steve Ventura, a U.S. Embassy official, is determined to end the massive narcotics business of a man named Brizard. Deray, the hired assassin, is the man who will hunt and kill the cunning criminal. But, when Ventura decides he wants Brizard alive, the tables are turned and the incognito Deray is stalked by his own employers.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elderly Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman has made a life of seeking out the last remnants of the Third Reich. But when he investigates a lead about a mysterious plot to assassinate ninety four seemingly unconnected men from around the world, he makes a terrifying discovery that has dire consequences for the fate of the human race. Lieberman₂s desperate quest to stop the unthinkable launches him on a collision course with the sinister figure behind the...
16) Lord Jim
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced 19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives. From the Joseph Conrad novel.
17) Caught
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
High definition.
Language
English
Description
When young bride Leonora realizes she is trapped in a loveless marriage with an emotionally abusive man and is unable to obtain a divorce, she leaves their home for a short time only to be forced back when she discovers she is pregnant.
19) 5 fingers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Turkey, the valet of the British ambassador offers the German ambassador priceless documents about the Allies for fantastic fees. But the British soon suspect the leaks and dispatch an investigator to learn the spy's identity. Based on the memoirs of a German agent.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Fiftieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
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