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: Based on the novel of the same name, this film follows the sudden disappearance of Anna Lou, a sixteen-year-old girl from a small mountain village in the Italian Alps. Called to investigate the mystery is Detective Vogel, who soon realizes that this case is far from simple. Working against the clock and amidst an unprecedented media frenzy, Vogel must make use of his unconventional methods to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRSummary: "In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Bros. 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY UNSSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: 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: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young Canadian man makes the acquaintance of an international spy. When he finds her murdered in his flat, he takes over her mission and is pursued across Scotland by both the police and a dangerous spy ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY EVI
Summary: Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ROPSummary: Count Dracula transforms Shaggy into a fuzz-faced werewolf and there's only one way he will change him back. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must win a creepy cross-country race against a hot-rodding horde of sinister celebrity monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BlCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blade 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLASummary: The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trying to put their mystery-solving days behind them, the Scooby gang go on an all-expense-paid trip to a mysterious (and strangely familiar) tropical island where their vacation is cut short by an army of marauding zombies and creepy cat people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ScSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom potboiler, Anatomy of a Murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANASummary: A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Scooby-Doo gang comes to the aid of their old friend Vincent Van Ghoul to capture the thirteenth ghost and break a curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESSummary: 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: A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF BLASummary: Small-town detective John Klute (Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of a friend. The trail leads to Bree Daniels (Fonda), a call girl, with whom Klute falls in love. She is being stalked by a psychotic murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER KLUSummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: Sherlock Holmes tries to stop Jack the Ripper's insane killing spree, but as he comes closer to unmasking the killer, he discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer. Includes commentary, stills gallery, and theatrical trailer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURSummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000