Hitchcock, Alfred
Summary: An anthology series featuring murder and crime stories with an ironic twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALFHITCHCOCK, ALFRED.
Summary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HPollack, Pam
Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British filmmaker known for his distinctive style of directing and his films that featured suspenseful and surprising plots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Summary: Filmmakers discuss François Truffaut's book "Le cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock" and its influence on their work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HITSummary: A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE FORSummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSummary: Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake; A young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it; It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating; When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home the answer arrives in the form...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALFSummary: Iris is travelling on a train through Europe and befriends Miss Froy, a kindly old lady. When Iris is knocked unconscience by a falling flower pot, she awakens to find Miss Froy mysteriously replaced by an imposter. She's led to believe the accident caused an illusion until Gilbert, a young musician, comes to her assistance. Together, they find themselves caught up in a mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LADSummary: After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Amongst the survivors is a glamorous journalist, a tough seaman, a nurse and an injured sailor. Their problems are complicated further when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lifeboat 2005Summary: Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ROPSummary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1951
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: Harry's corpse is found in the autumnal New England woods. While no one mourns his death, several people feel responsible for it. The body is unearthed several times, humorous situations occur, and love affairs develop before the real cause of Harry's death is revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TROSummary: "This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY LODSummary: Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VERSummary: "Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock ... becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma ... as he sets out to make the film"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA HITSummary: Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER NOSummary: Wartime thriller about a Los Angles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SabSummary: A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Picture 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TOContents: vol. 1. Jamaica Inn ; Young and innocent ; The skin game ; The sorcerer's apprentice ; Bonus features. Favorite Hitchcock posters -- vol. 2. The manxman ; Juno and the paycock ; Champagne ; Hitchcock presents: The cheney vase ; Bonus features. Hitchcock radio: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" -- vol. 3. The farmer's wife ; Easy virtue ; The ring ; Bonus features. Hitchcock trailers -- vol. 4. Blackmail ;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOSummary: The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A man falsely accused of murder is chased across Scotland as he tries to find those responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999