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 NOISummary: After a Prohibition-era gangster is released from prison, he longs for a simpler life, but he is lured back for one last heist by his old boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIGTeller, Miles
Summary: Three young stoners from Florida win a lucrative Department of Defense contract through which they supply poor-grade ammunition to Afghanistan's military before being caught by Pentagon investigators.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WARSummary: "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 KILSummary: "This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN ONESummary: A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004