Summary: Shadows: Explores interracial friendships and relationships in the 1950's Beat-era New York City. Faces: Richard and Maria are attempting to escape the anguish of their dissolving marriage by falling in the arms of others. A woman under the influence: Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, but her madness proves to be a problem in their marriage. The killing of a Chinese bookie: To clear his debt,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA JOH

Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUG

Summary: At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DIN