Charles Coburn
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Williams is a big galoot of a coach who has a big heart when it comes to his young daughter. Williams has been banned from the major conferences and is making ends meet as an oddsmaker. Then tiny independent College of St. Anthony comes calling and Williams takes the job in the hopes of making the school profitable by establishing a top football program.
8) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
11) Kings Row
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When an aspiring doctor loses the one woman in his life to a tragic and untimely death, he goes off to Europe to forget. While he's gone, his friend Drake loses his inherited fortune and his fiance. He takes up with a woman "from the wrong side of the tracks" and an ensuing accident leaves him a cripple. When Cummings, now a full-fledged doctor returns home, it takes everything he has ever learned and experienced to put things right again.