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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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KIL

Summary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUS

Summary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.

Gavaldon, Roberto

Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAR

Summary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THU

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KAT

Caron, Leslie

Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIG

Kruger, Diane

Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAR

Summary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEN

Summary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BEL

Summary: A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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Summary: Step inside 'the Castle,' a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife. A colleague with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COB

Summary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Garland, Judy

Summary: A young St. Louis girl and her family are troubled to discover that their Father has accepted a transfer to New York City which will cause them to miss the St. Louis World's Fair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MEE

Summary: "With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY PHI

Summary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAT

Summary: The team has always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe, but in this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the organization.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIB

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Me

Summary: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHI

Summary: "The ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronic genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defense of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate its sovereign borders. But such a promising thought turns into a stunning...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Universal Home Video 2004

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Summary: Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama asks all kinds of baby animals his question. Will he ever get the answer he longs to hear? Leo the late bloomer: What's the matter with Leo? He can't read, write or speak like the other baby animals can. Will Leo ever bloom? Elizabeti's doll: When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti wants a baby of her own. She finds a rock that will make a perfect...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV IS

Summary: A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABS

Summary: Harry the dirty dog: Harry runs away before bath time. When he returns home covered in mud, his family doesn't recognize him. Officer Buckle and Gloria: When Officer Buckle tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens - until he's partnered with a police dog named Gloria. Angus and the ducks: A curious Scotch terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hed

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HAR

Summary: When Helen Lyle hears about a slave spirit with a hook hand said to haunt a notorious housing project, she braves the gang-ridden area to visit the site. Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist, until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, grisly slayings. The police refuse to believe Helen's story and charge her with the crimes. Now the only one who can set her free is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CAN

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