Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007

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Summary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011

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Borodin Quartet

Contents: Notturno : andante : from String quartet no. 2 / Alexander Borodin (8:37) --Scherzo : from Quartet no. 5 : "Slavonic" : op. 33 / Vissarion Shebalin (3:10) -- Romance : from String quartet no. 1 / Sergei Rachmaninov (6:08) -- Visions fugitives : op. 22. No. 16, Dolente ; no. 10, Ridicolosamente ; no. 17, Poetico ; no. 14, Feroce / Sergei Prokofiev ; arr. Rudolf Barshay (5:26) -- Intermezzo :...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 1995

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Summary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005

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Summary: Potemkin re-creats the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment, Inc. 1998

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Summary: Director George Steven's sweeping saga of family conflict and social consciousness based on Edna Ferber's best seller. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Starring Rock Hudson as rancher Bick Benedict, Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Leslie and James Dean (in his final film role) as nouveau oil baron Jett Rink, this tale of three generations of Texan remains both grand and intimate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1951

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Summary: A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004

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Summary: A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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Williams, John

Contents: Summon the heroes / John Williams (6:17) -- O Fortuna : from Carmina Burana / Carl Orff (sung in Latin) (2:39) -- Bugler's dream / Leo Arnaud. Olympic fanfare and theme / John Williams (4:31) -- Ode to Zeus : from Canto Olympico / Mikis Theodorakis (sung in Greek) (3:42) -- Javelin / Michael Torke (8:53) -- Olympic hymn / Leonard Bernstein (sung in English) (5:22) -- Festive overture : op. 96 /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1996

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Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich

Contents: The bolt : suite from the ballet, op. 27a (29:11) -- Jazz suite no. 2 : Suite for stage variety orchestra (20:29) -- Jazz suite no. 1 (8:23) -- Tahiti trot : op. 16 (4:10).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Music Library 2004

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Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Wilder, Laura Ingalls 1867-1957

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich

Contents: Jazz suite : no. 1 (8:00) -- Piano concerto no. 1 in C minor, op. 35 : (Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings) (22:00) -- Jazz suite : no. 2 : (Suite for promenade orchestra) (25:00) -- Tahiti trot : (Tea for two) (3:33)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: London 1993

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Nagishkin, Dmitriĭ.

Summary: A collection of 31 traditional tales from that far eastern part of Russia that lies along the banks of the Amur River.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1980

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Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Summary: Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

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1982

Contents: 07:56 -- 06:19 -- 06:37 -- 07:00 -- 04:03 -- 04:45 -- 04:09

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music

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Dean, Debra 1957-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004

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Hammond, Lee 1957-

Summary: A collection of detailed instructions for drawing realistic animals from photographs containing information on materials and techniques.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2006

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Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Summary: A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the West Coast in 1915.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1976

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