Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: 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 DARSummary: In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DRSummary: 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 ASPSummary: Man with the golden arm: An ex-convict recovering from heroin addiction returns to the Chicago slums and struggles to become a musician. Suddenly: A band of paid killers takes over a house in a small town, with a mission to assassinate the arriving President of the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Education 2000 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Philip Marlowe is an unromanticized snoop for hire in an unromanticized LA. Working for fifty bucks a day plus expenses, he tries to solve a case the police dismiss as murder/suicide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LONSummary: The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Legend Films 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUDKubrick, Stanley
Summary: A group of criminals plot the perfect racetrack robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011