Gene Wilder
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Offers a collection of twelve stories, each of which answers the question posed in the book's title in a different way, exploring a particular kind of love, including star-crossed, intense, needy, eternal, unrequited, and comical.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1903, after suffering a breakdown on stage, Jeremy Webb, a violinist with the Cleveland Orchestra, is sent to a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany, where he meets Clara Mulpas, a woman suffering from severe consumption.
Series
Publisher
Inecom Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Gene Wilder, this documentary brings the Chicago World's Fair to life. Experience the world of 1893 through a cinematic visit to Chicago's Columbian Exposition where viewers are immersed in one of the world's biggest extravaganzas.
11) Stir crazy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Low-rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his high-strung accountant Leo Bloom discover that, with the help of a few gullible investors, they can make more money on a flop than on a hit. Armed with the worst show ever written and an equally horrific cast, this double-dealing duo is banking on disaster. But when their sure-to-offend musical becomes a surprise hit, they find themselves in the middle of a Broadway blitzkrieg"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
A finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies, in which Wilder returns to the old country to clear his family name. He finds his late grandfather's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. With Igor, his hunchbacked assistant, and the curvaceous Inga, Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
14) Silver streak
Publisher
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c1971
Language
English
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
17) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy and proved that even sophomoric,...