Summary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BALSummary: A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: 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
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PETSummary: A re-make of "The Front Page" with the main character as a girl reporter (Rosalind Russell). The editor (Cary Grant) wants his top reporter to cover the impending execution of a murderer rather than get married and leave the job.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Goodtimes DVD 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISSummary: Father of the bride: The prenuptial pandemonium begins when the bride-to-be announces her engagement, setting off an outrageous chin of events, including a chaotic first meeting with the in-laws and a wedding day snowstorm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FATSummary: Aging private detective Ira Wells (Carney) teams up with kooky Margo Sterling (Tomlin) to solve the murder of Carney's old detective partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LATSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007