RKO Radio Pictures
1) Pinocchio
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Language
English
Description
Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will require some guidance, and Jiminy Cricket agrees to act as his...
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English
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"Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing, and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home. Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife, Julia, and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
5) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
6) Mr. Lucky
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
7) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Language
English
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Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
9) Gunga Din
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Adventure story of three English soldier comrades battling the savage punjabs in India, and their lowly water-bearer, Gunga Din, who longs to be a soldier.
10) Cinderella
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Language
English
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Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown, and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving only a single glass slipper, the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending! Bonus features included.
11) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Language
English
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Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
12) Top hat
Language
English
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
13) I remember mama
Language
English
Description
Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
14) Bringing up Baby
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
15) Stage door
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
16) Pinocchio
Language
English
Description
A wooden puppet must earn the right to be a real boy by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. Includes: all-new digital restoration; an alternate ending; never-before-seen deleted scene; Pinocchio's Puzzles game; music video; and much more.
18) Treasure Island
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Long John Silver and a cabin boy match wits in this outstanding Disney tale.
19) Holiday affair
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Even though he recently lost his job as a department-store clerk, Steve Mason buys an electric train set for a child he scarcely knows. It must be Christmastime.
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition, and learns about local voodoo practices in her search for a cure.
Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher: A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded,...
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