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

The Resource Binge box : best picture '30s-'50s, Academy award winners
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Binge box : best picture '30s-'50s, Academy award winners
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best picture '30s-'50s
Title part
Academy award winners
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  • Academy award winners best picture '30s-'50s
  • Best picture '30's-'50s
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Language
eng
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
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TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Dewey number
791.43/75
Intended audience
Rating: PG
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.A33 2020
PerformerNote
  • 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
Runtime
596
Target audience
general
Technique
live action

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