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Barron's review course series Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 558 Criterion collection ; 176 Criterion collection ; 495 Endangered music project Franchise collection Greatest classic legends film collection Stratford Festival presents Gilbert & Sullivan Twilight zone 3 Universal Cinema classicsAlberts, Arthur S.
Contents: Malinke (French Guinea) -- Mano (Liberia) -- Igbo (Nigeria, Ghana) -- Ashanti (Ghana) -- Baule (Ivory Coast) -- Fanti (Ghana, Liberia) -- Loma (Liberia) -- Bindendela (Zaire) -- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) -- Pop music (Zaire, Liberia)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALBSummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: Darren Silverman is a guy who gets himself into a new relationship with a hottie, who is messing up a long lasting friendship between Darren and his two buddies. The buddies then decide that they need to "help" Darren with his girlfriend -- by kidnapping her and re-introducing Darren to an old high school sweetheart who is headed toward a convent life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EASDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Collects Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well asliterary and cultural details about Victorian society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYFARNHAM, ALBERT S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1944
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590.752 FARSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSullivan, Arthur
Contents: Ruddigore -- The tempest (incidental music) -- The merchant of Venice, suite.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O SULBosworth, Albert S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Va. 1916
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3754 BOSSummary: When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2009
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHRSummary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: "Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko, a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor has instructed him to produce a head -- or forfeit his own!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Acorn Media 1999
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKSummary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Willy 2011Tarendash, Albert S.
Contents: Introduction to chemistry -- Atoms, molecules, and ions -- Formulas, equations, and chemical reactions -- Chemical calculations -- Energy and chemical reactions -- The phases of matter -- Nuclear chemistry -- The electronic structure of atoms -- Chemical periodicity -- Chemical bonding and molecular shape -- Organic chemistry -- Solutions and their properties -- Kinetics and equilibrium --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000