Lauren Bacall
Author
Pub. Date
2006, 1955
Description
Blood Alley: A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. The sea chase: As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Description
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are boatmen available for hire based on the island of Martinique. With World War II raging, Harry prefers to remain neutral. However, with his business failing, he agrees to aid the French resistance. Alongside this plot is Harry's relationship with Marie, a resistance sympathizer who sings at one of Harry's hangouts.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
24) The Big Sleep
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.
26) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
27) The Shootist
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
28) Key Largo
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
An ex-GI goes to visit the widow and father of an old war buddy in a Florida island hotel and finds that an infamous gangster has moved in and taken over the place.
30) The Big Sleep
Description
In this hard boiled detective story, private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
Series
Premiere collection volume 10
Pub. Date
♭2012
Description
Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe star as models in search of riches who instead find love!
32) Dark Passage
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This John Wayne collection presents nine of the Duke's greatest westerns. In The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962), a politician recounts his friendship with a dead gunslinger. In True Grit (1969), a U.S. Marshal tracks down a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory. In Hondo (1953), a half-Indian cavalry scout finds a young mother living on an isolated ranch in unfriendly Apache country. In McLintock (1963), a wealthy cattle baron attempts...
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES: A musical about two showgirls from Little Rock -- an apparently stupid blonde golddigger and her provocative brunette friend -- searching for love and marriage aboard a luxury liner bound for France. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE: Three fashion models pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse with the hopes of snagging rich husbands. After several hilarious encounters with the wealthy opposite sex, the three discover...
36) Dogville
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2003
Description
"Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth"--container.
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...