Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ALF1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD THRILLER ALF
Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A radio host from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down south to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENSummary: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROSummary: "British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's 'accidental' death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LIMSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FIVSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A meek and mild bank teller suffering from a strange nightmare discovers he has been hypnotized into committing a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014