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Binge box : Academy award winners : best picture '30s-'50s.

2020

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Binge box : Academy award winners : best picture '30s-'50s.
Publisher, Date:	[United States] : Binge Box, [2020]
Description:	5 videodiscs (596 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	It happened one night: When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story. How green was my valley: A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time. The lost weekend: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. From here to eternity: Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The bridge on the River Kwai: British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: PG.
Subjects:	United States. Army -- Military life -- Drama. Burma-Siam Railroad -- Drama. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Families -- Wales -- Pembrokeshire -- Drama. Alcoholics -- Drama.
Genre:	Feature films. Historical films.
Other Author:	Capra, Frank, 1897-1991, director. Riskin, Robert, screenwriter. Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979. Dunne, Philip, 1908-1992, screenwriter. Ford, John, 1894-1973, film director. Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, director, screenwriter. Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969, producer, screenwriter. Adler, Buddy, 1906-1960, film producer. Zinnemann, Fred, 1907-1997, film director. Taradash, Daniel, 1913-2003, screenwriter. Spiegel, Sam, film producer. Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978, screenwriter. Lean, David, 1908-1991, film director. Holden, William, 1918-1981, actor. Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994, actor. Milland, Ray, actor. Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-1984, actor. Gable, Clark, 1901-1960, actor. Binge Box (Firm), publisher.
Other Title:	Best picture '30's-'50s Academy award winners : best picture '30s-'50s. Container of (work): It happened one night (Motion picture) Container of (work): How green was my valley (Motion picture) Container of (work): Lost weekend (Motion picture) Container of (work): From here to eternity (Motion picture) Container of (work): Bridge on the River Kwai (Motion picture)
Notes:	Title from container. Wide screen. It happened one night: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas. How green was my valley: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall. The lost weekend: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling. From here to eternity: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed. The bridge on the River Kwai: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald. DVD, wide screen.
Contents:	It happened one night / screenplay by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra (1934 : NR : 105 min.) -- How green was my valley / screenplay by Philip Dunne ; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck ; directed by John Ford (1941 : G : 118 min.) -- The lost weekend / screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; produced by Charles Brackett ; directed by Billy Wilder (1945 : NR : 100 min.) -- From here to eternity / producer, Buddy Adler ; director, Fred Zinnemann ; screenplay, Daniel Taradash (1953 : NR : 118 min.) -- The bridge on the River Kwai / screenplay by Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman ; a Horizon Picture ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by David Lean (1957 : PG : 155 min.).
Publisher Number:	13659240
Other Number:	1201265104
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	874961
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# System items in:	1
Call Number:	Binge DVD MOVIE Academy

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