Studio classics: 75 Years

ANNA KARENINA: OSCAR winner Vivien Leigh is haunting in the title role of the spellbinding film version of Leo Tolstoy’s tragedy. When the young wife (Leigh) of a statesman runs off with a young officer (Kieron Moore), she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living. A FAREWELL TO ARMS: Hollywood icon Rock Hudson and OSCAR winner Jennifer Jones heat up the screen in a towering adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s tragic World War I love story. When an injured American ambulance driver (Hudson) and English nurse (Jones) desert to Switzerland, the danger they’ve struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat. LES MISERABLES (1935 and 1952): This DVD release includes both the 1935 and 1952 screen adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic which tells the inspiring story of Valijean, an ex convict who rises from galley slave to mayor, and Javert, the police inspector bent on recapturing Valijean. OSCAR winners Fredric March and Charles Laughton star in the 1935 version, while Michael Rennie and Debra Paget lead in the 1952 retelling. THE SUN ALSO RISES: An awe inspiring lineup of Hollywood icons including Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Mel Ferrer and Eddie Albert, stars in this powerful screen portrait of Hemingway’s novel. In 1920s Paris, a group of disillusioned expatriates pursues a life of debauchery, each living as though they were about to die.