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: A young man comes back to his hometown and finds himself in a dangerous situation involving a mysterious woman and a volatile criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWO RATED RSummary: The continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, Pa., where his former lover and partner-in-crime has been living under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BANSummary: The new season finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine, with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with (among other things) the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow, as well as the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BANSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY ISummary: A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DONCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DONSummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASSummary: Season Five begins with an ending as a kiss goodbye sends Abby and Trace to travel separate paths. With the help of her family and some new friends, she must contemplate the future on her own terms.hallmark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCSummary: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Cameron is the new kid in school who becomes smitten with the beautiful Bianca. But Bianca's overprotective and domineering father forbids Bianca to date unless her older sister Kat, an surly and hostile senior, does. In a bid to get Kat a boyfriend, Cameron sets up a plan to have the school stud, Joey Donnar, bribe Patrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOU RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mountain 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MOUSummary: When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PHOSummary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNSummary: Nearly 10 years after the original series ended, Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is here. Lorelai still runs the Dragonfly Inn, and now lives with Luke. Her daughter, Rory, now 32, juggles career complications and ex-boyfriends, while matriarch Emily adjusts to widowed life. In four memorable chapters studded with drop-ins by quirky Stars Hollow friends, the Gilmores confront long-standing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: After leaving her day job as Cat Grant's assistant at CatCo Worldwide Media to take stock of her life and plan her future, Kara Danvers continues to work with Hank Henshaw and her sister, Alex, at the Department of Extranormal Operations. There, she can be her true self -- Supergirl -- using her ever-increasing powers to protect National City while searching for her missing father, Jeremiah,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPSummary: A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIASummary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: Two strangers meet by chance, spend a night together in Vienna, and part before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013