Summary: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Roach Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEESummary: With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOCIE REDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN REDSummary: In this Christmas drama, a young widow trying to raise a son by working as a comparison shopper gets a handsome toy salesman fired, and a romantic triangle ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Westlake Entertainment Group 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: When a flood of lawless gunmen invades his once peaceful town, Marshal Cass Silver knows it's up to him to force them out. But the only chance he might have is to gain the help of a gunslinger named Thad, who wrongly believes the marshal is responsible for his father's death. To save the town, Silver will have to earn the aid, and trust, of a man sworn to send him to his grave!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Twain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWISummary: Jasper, a two foot high gnome, has been searching for a suitable bride to please his 900 year-old grandfather. He gets help from two children after a chance encounter with them in the forest. Trouble ensues when a showman discovers the gnomes and masterminds a kidnapping plot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A 17th century entertainer exiled from England and shipped to America falls in love with a princess who is kidnapped by pirates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRISummary: Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959, 91 min., full screen): An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DISSummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: In this glorious adaptation of the Mark Twain classic, young Tom Sawyer is a big troublemaker. When he's not tricking others into doing his work, he's upsetting his aunt Polly, or wooing his young love, Becky. But sometimes Tom's mischief gets him in over his head, and when he and his pal, Huckleberry Finn, witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down the river on a raft. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADVSummary: "John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 1998Summary: Lou Gehrig, the Yank's great first baseman and the son of poor immigrants, rose to heights of baseball fame -- only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable illness known as ALS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SERSummary: A charming drifter becomes sheriff in a rough and tumble mining town where lawmen don't last a month.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Support 2001Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SUPSummary: Tammy and the bachelor: As a little Mississippi riverboat girl, Tammy falls in love with a wealthy southern gentleman after she and her rascally grandfather rescue him from a plane crash -- Tammy tell me true: The adventures of Tammy continue in college, where the worldly-wise small-town gal helps a broken-hearted artist paint a happy future, teaches a haughty heiress that the Golden Rule is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE TAMSummary: A charter boat operator in the Caribbean breaks his policy of neutrality and takes a job transporting a resistance member to Martinique.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003