Sydney Greenstreet
2) Casablanca
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on "her" farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the...
Series
Publisher
World's Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
Track one: "Starring Sydney Greenstreet. Ted Olifant, a spiritual leader from a small religious group, asks Nero Wolfe to save the life of a woman he loves. When Archie pays a visit to the woman, he finds her dead. NBC, Broadcast 11-03-50."
Track two: "Starring Sydney Greenstreet. An actress has been receiving threatening notes. She calls Nero Wolfe and Archie because she is afraid to leave her hotel room. NBC. Broadcast 02-02-51."
6) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes from the Netherlands to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene, and the Nazis are closing in.
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott) washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Lorre) takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters (Greenstreet). But as Leyden zeroes...
15) Malaya
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], 1949.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this exciting wartime adventure weaves a tale of danger and intrigue as it focuses on the daredevil exploits of a handful of extraordinary men.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
18) The hucksters
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Hucksters (1947) is a considerably sanitized version of the best-selling novel by Frederic Wakeman. Directed by Jack Conway, the film is a slick but still powerful, and at times darkly funny, indictment of the seamy side of advertising, radio, and big business. Clark Gable plays a World War II veteran who gets a job in advertising, and finds that his work requires him to often abandon his principles. Deborah Kerr, in her American film debut,...
19) Casablanca
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.) : Rick Blaine sticks his neck out for nobody. Then she walks back into his life...with her Resistance-leader husband.
Mrs. Miniver (1942, b&w, 133 min.): One of Hollywood's most memorable spirit-lifters about an idealized England confronting the terror of World War II.
Gigi (1958, color, 115 min.): Gigi goes from girlishness to glamour and desires more than the lush life of suitor Louis Jordan.
An American in Paris...