Summary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASSummary: Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2003
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TRESummary: Three convicts, Joseph, Albert and Jules, are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly but inept Felix and his family. Felix manages a store for his arrogant cousin Andre, who makes the fatal mistake of stealing Albert's pet, a poisonous snake. After resolving Felix's problems, the convicts return to prison, convinced that the world is much too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WE'RSummary: Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City society girl determined to marry a millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY AUDSummary: A hard-hitting D.A. is facing the hottest case of the year. Armed with a killer's confession, a score of missing persons and a mob undertaker working full-time, he knows he's onto something. Relentless and determined he tracks down a notorious murder for profit ring, headed by a killer named Mendoza.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ENFSummary: "Whirlpool" (98 min.) : A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: A collection of four of Humphrey Bogart's most classic roles is presented in this special gift set. He plays detective Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe in the Maltese Falcon and the Big Sleep, and stars in Casablanca and Key Largo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HUMSummary: Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MALSummary: "Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ROASummary: When a man murders his nagging wife because his affections have turned to her far-more-pleasant younger sister, it appears he has executed the perfect crime--until a minor slip-up arouses the suspicions of a family friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Calssic AfricanSummary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distribued by Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN
Summary: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY KEYContents: The Jack Benny program / w Mel Blanc (1953) -- The Burns & Allen show / w George Burns, Gracie Allen, Frank Sinatra (1946) -- The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy show / w Edgar Bergen, Humphrey Bogart (1943).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Spirits, Inc. 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN OLDSummary: A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young waitress Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005