Summary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Ove, a grumpy, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, decides to give up on life until an unlikely friendship develops with a boisterous young family that moves in next door.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MAN
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF MaSummary: Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1980
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FAMSummary: Private eye Rigby Reardon is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate the mysterious death of her father--a wealthy scientist, philanthropist, and chessemaker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For Commisaris Piet van der Valk, it's a new day and a new dawn as he welcomes two new Sergeants to the team, the hotshot but impulsive Eddie Suleman and the technical whiz Citra Li.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANSummary: "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: Clark and Marty were caught up in a marriage of convenience that over time turned into deep mutual respect and love. They now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. As they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited to the size of one's dwelling.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Loves 2005Summary: The twelve chairs: The tale of a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. -- Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. -- Young Frankenstein: Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MELSummary: In the 1930s, a private investigator teams up with his old partner to fight the mob, but they can't stand each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A World War II veteran and a woman rancher team up to fight for their land when both are threatened by a greedy cattle baron.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN COMSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: 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: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: This is the story of the growth and maturity of Magnolia, a showboat star, who falls for Gaylord Ravenal, a riverboat gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRIChao, Rosalind
Summary: When a young woman is sold into marriage by her poor father, she instead winds up in an Idaho gold mining town, where she finds direction in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE THOSummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019