Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SCESummary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: "Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SMOSummary: 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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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHISummary: Based on the classic book Curious George and the birthday surprise. Includes eight fun-filled shows from the Emmy Award-winning hit PBS Kids TV series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the brink of Civil War, King Henry IV (John Gielgud) attempts to consolidate his reign while fretting with unease over his son's seeming neglect of his royal duties. Hal (Keith Baxter), the young Prince, openly consorts with Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) and his company of "Diana's foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, Minions of the moon". Hal's friendship with the fat knight substitutes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHISummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOContents: Scooby-Doo! Camp scare -- Scooby-Doo and the monster of Mexico -- Aloha Scooby-Doo -- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA UGLSummary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: A supernatural thriller driven by fantasy, mystery, and romance follows Ig Perrish, the number one suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, Merrin. Hung over from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing from his head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses - an effective tool in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A man washes up on the beach with no memory of who he is, but with an array of alarming skills; after being framed for the death of a CIA operative, Jason Bourne is forced to use his skills as a former assassin to save himself; super secret weapon Jason Bourne comes out of hiding one last time to learn about his past, risking assassination by the government that made him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002