Summary: Hondo Lane, a cavalry rider, becomes the designated protector of Angie Lowe and her son, Johnny. Angie, who is waiting for the return of her brutish husband, refuses to leave their homestead despite the growing dangers from nearby warring Native American tribes. Angie's feelings begin to grow for Hondo, but she has no idea that her husband is dead and Hondo is the one who killed him. Special...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN HONSummary: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOGSummary: 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 sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: "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: The classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper about the French and Indian War, and a white frontiersman raised by Indians. Bonus features included.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LASSummary: Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ShadowSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAISummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRCrowley, John
Summary: Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOLSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018