Great cinema classics.
(DVD)

Title from container.

This collection of films were originally released as motion pictures between 1932 and 1958.

Full screen.

Educational and home use only.

The lady vanishes: director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenwriters, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder; producer, Edward Black.

I cover the waterfront: director, James Cruze; screenwriters, Wells Root, Jack Jevne; producer, Edward Small.

Algiers: director, John Cromwell; screenwriters, John Howard Lawson, James M. Cain; producer, Walter Wanger.

The scarlet letter: director, Robert G. Vignola; screenwriters, Leonard Fields, David Silverstein; producer, Larry Darmour.

Missouri Traveler: director, Jerry Hopper; screenwriter, Norman S. Hall; producers, Lowell J. Farrell, Patrick Ford.

Becky Sharp: director, Rouben Mamoulian; screenwriter, Francis Edwards Faragoh; producer, Kenneth Macgowan.

The pied piper of Hamelin: director, Bretaigne Windust; producer, Hal Stanley.

The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: director, Alberto Cavalcanti; screenwriter, John Dighton; producers, Michael Balcon, John Croydon.

The 39 steps: director, Alfred Hitchcock; adapted by, Charles Bennett; producers, Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu.

They made me a criminal: director, Busby Berkeley; screenwriter, Sig Herzig; producer, Benjamin Glazer.

The red house: director, Delmer Daves; screenwriter, Delmer Daves; producer, Sol Lesser.

Lady of Burlesque: director, William A. Wellman; screenwriter, James Gunn; producer, Hunt Stromberg.

Adventure Island: director, Peter Stewart; screenwriter, Maxwell Shane; producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas.

Oliver Twist: director, William J. Cowen; screenwriter, Elizabeth Meehan; producer, I.E. Chadwick.

Vanity Fair: director, Chester M. Franklin; screenwriter, F. Hugh Herbert; producer, Chester M. Franklin.

The lady vanishes (1938): Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas.

I cover the waterfront (1933): Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence.

Algiers (1938): Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie.

The scarlet letter (1934): Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall.

Missouri traveler (1958): Brandon De Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill.

Becky Sharp (1935): Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke.

The pied piper of Hamelin (1957): Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Lori Nelson.

The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes.

The 39 steps (1935): Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim.

They made me a criminal (1939): John Garfield, Claude Rains, The 'Dead End' Kids.

The red house (1947): Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson.

Lady of burlesque (1943): Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg.

Adventure Island (1947): Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly.

Oliver Twist (1933): Dickie Moore, Irving Pichel, William 'Stage' Boyd.

Vanity fair (1932): Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent.

The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

I cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

Algiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.

The scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

Missouri traveler (1958): 15-year-old orphan Brian Turner (De Wilde) struggles to survive in the rural South in the 1910's. He arrives in a small town where crusty small-town newspaper editor Doyle Magee (Merrill) decides to take the boy in and give him a chance at a regular life. Wealthy local farmer Tobias Brown (Marvin) also takes an interest in Brian's future, but treats the young man cruelly, masking Tobias' real hidden feelings of affection and genuine concern. Brian also proves his worth by training racehorses for the climactic annual horse race.

Becky Sharp (1935): Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.

The pied piper of Hamelin (1957): The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain ... which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regret.

Nicholas Nickleby (1947): The impoverished widow Mrs. Nickleby takes lodgings in the house of Miss La Creevy on the Strand, together with her adult children Nicholas and Kate. She asks her brother-in-law, the wealthy Ralph Nickleby, to help her son find employment. Nicholas is soon hired as an assistant at Mr. Squeers's Academy in Dotheboys Hall outside London. When he sees Mr. Squeers flogging the pupils, he tries to stop it, gets into a fight with the school master, and is fired. Back in London he finds his sister Kate being insulted by her uncle's friends. When Nicholas objects, Ralph Nickleby orders him to leave London. Otherwise the uncle will stop providing for the mother and the sister. Nicholas joins Crummlers' Theatrical Company as an actor, and is a huge success as Romeo. He returns to London to stop the continuing sexual harassments of his sister. When he finds employment with the Cheeryble Brothers, the family isn't dependent on Ralph Nickleby anymore. Nicholas falls in love with Madeline Bray, who he saves from being forced into a hateful marriage with the miser Arthur Gride.

The 39 steps (1935): A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.

They made me a criminal (1939): A boxer flees believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

The red house (1947): An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandon farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

Lady of burlesque (1943): After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Adventure Island (1947): Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.

Oliver Twist (1933): An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Vanity fair (1932): This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.

Not rated. Some of these movies may contain content appropriate for mature audiences, and may not be suitable for children.

DVD disc.

English dialogue.