John Huston
1) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
6) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
1956.
Description
Consumed by an insane thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life--vengeance on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
7) Annie
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
8) Cannery Row
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
13) The Hobbit
Pub. Date
2001, c1977
Description
An animated adaptation of the book of the same title by J. R. R. Tolkien. Concerns the adventures of Bilbo Baggins the hobbit as he assists 13 dwarves in their attempt to recapture their treasure from Smaug, the terrible dragon.
Pub. Date
[1941]
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
17) The Cardinal
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Epic drama about the rise of a socially conscious Irish American priest through the ranks to Cardinal.
18) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2000
Formats
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.