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1) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Language
English
Description
Miriam Knight is an 'ugly duckling' college girl who is mistreated by everyone, including her bubble-headed roommate and the callous campus jock. But after an accident causes her to undergo reconstructive surgery, Miriam emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It's payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on all those who wronged her.
7) The hunters
Series
Language
English
Description
"Set during the height of the Korean War, Major Cleve Saville [is] a master of the newly operational F-86 Sabre fighter jets. But adept as he is at flying, Saville's personal life takes a nosedive when he falls in love with his wingman's beautiful wife. To make matters worse, Saville must cope with a loud-mouthed rookie in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Language
English
Description
The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality...
Language
English
Description
Picnic: A slice-of-life drama set in small town Kansas; a drifter drops in on his old college buddy, and falls for the buddy's girl.
Jeanne Eagels:The tragic career of a stage and screen star whose climb for the top pushed her over the edge.
Bell Book and Candle: A witch gets bored, and longs for a more 'normal' existence, only to fall in love with her upstairs neighbor.
Middle of the Night: A young woman is in a relationship with her boss, nearly...