Summary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.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 KILSummary: Ex-G.I Rip Murdock tries to find out who framed his pal Johnny and then killed him. While tracking his war buddy's shadowy past, Rip becomes involved with the mysterious night club singer who had once been his friend's sweetheart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POSSummary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EASSummary: Singapore (1947): In pre-war Singapore, Matt Gordon falls in love with the beautiful Linda Grahame, but loses contact with her when the Japanese attack. Five years later, he returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls and accidentally reconnects with Linda, now married to a rich planter Van Leyden and suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, the sinister Mauibus schemes to steal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: "This collection features three classic noir films from the 1950s. Thunder on the Hill (1951)--directed by the great Douglas Sirk, a nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows. The Price of Fear (1956)--a woman (Merle Oberon) guilty of a hit-and-run accident frames another...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSummary: "Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical, dark love story, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017