Sam Jaffe
2) Ben-Hur
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Experience the visual splendor, thundering action, and towering drama of the record-setting winner of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to his role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race, and a fateful encounter with Jesus Christ. An enduring...
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (double-sided) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son (Patricia Neal, Billy Gray) befriend him ... and soon realize that they may be all that stands between...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (8 hr., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty terrifying stories plus the original Pilot movie from the original first season of television's Night Gallery. Stories adapted from short stories by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft and Conrad Aiken and directed by such people as Steven Spielberg and John Badham.
5) Gunga Din
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three English soldier comrades battle the punjabs in India while accompanied by their lowly water-bearer Gunga Din, who longs to be a fighter himself.
6) Lost horizon
Description
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : DVD video, sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 panels ; color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 1103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Born free: When a game warden and his wife adopt a lion cub they realize that she must be set free and taught to survive on her own. A year later they return to the savanna and are surprised by a very special welcome from their old friend.
Living free: Set against the spectacular backdrop of East Africa, this true adventure continues the story of Born Free and one couple's painful decision to set the lion cubs they raised free into their home in...