Summary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ASP

Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI

Summary: A lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has nearly destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket could prove disastrous for his high-strung brother whose small-time policy bank stands to go broke when the rigged numbers pay off.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOR

Summary: Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DOU

Summary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MOO

Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IN

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

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Summary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRE

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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KIL

Summary: "Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BLO

Contents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCM

Summary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLO

Summary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IN

Blondell, Joan

Summary: An ambitious man working as part of a surreal and disturbing traveling carnival sets out to become a mentalist and take over the job of someone else in the sideshow.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIG

Summary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRU

Summary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ALF
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD THRILLER ALF

Summary: Daniel Kremer's Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly describes it as 'part noir, part epic journey from inner mind to outer expanses.' Loosely adapted from the 1799 gothic novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OVE

Summary: When Chief Inspector Tanner arrives at the house of Lord and Lady Lebanon to investigate the murder of their chauffeur, he quickly notices a lot of strange things about the household; when a priceless Buddhist artefact is stolen from a Japanese temple, a popular radio personality accidentally becomes involved in the case; a gambler falls in love with a young woman and believes she is bringing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRI

Summary: An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a 'dive' from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SET

Summary: A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN

Summary: When Emily Crany refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she enlists the help of an FBI agent to help her bring Salwen to justice ... before he brings an end to them!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOU

Summary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI