Richard Brooks
1) Elmer Gantry
Pub. Date
1960.
Description
When traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, he converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) reappears, Gantry is forced to confront long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a Hell...
Pub. Date
1954.
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed). After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel...
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
The hot and cool rhythms of jazz. The simmering of syncopated soul.Hip-hop. Be-bop. The ecstasy of pop. The jiving and jamming of rap. Man of turbulent times. Traveler through the crossroads of the African-American struggle. Artist, activist, husband, human.Incorrigible risk taker. LISTEN UP: THE LIVES OF QUINCY JONES, focuses on the man, the music and the legend of Quincy Jones--and finds within the ever-changing rhythms of his life the unchanging...
5) Key Largo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Standard version.
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
6) Spanglish
Description
Spanglish: When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina...