Summary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FILSummary: An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ITSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IT'SSummary: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: 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: Carousel: (50th Anniversary edition) On the coast of Maine, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection contains film versions of the five major works by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who helped define the American musical landscape and rewrite the direction of musical theater. After enjoying extremely successful careers working with others, Rodgers and Hammerstein first teamed up in 1943 for the prairie tale Oklahoma!, with songs including "Oh,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Carousel: Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker. He wants a better life for his family, but he goes about it the wrong way and is killed during a robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARSummary: In this Christmas classic a man is saved from a suicide attempt when his guardian angel shows him how important he is to the people who love him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IT"SSummary: Step inside 'the Castle,' a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife. A colleague with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COBSummary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INRodgers, Richard
Contents: Overture (4:51) -- Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (2:35) -- The surrey with the fringe on top (4:52) -- Kansas City (2:34) -- I cain't say no (3:09) -- Many a new day (3:08) -- People will say we're in love (4:20) -- Poor Jud is dead (4:15) -- Out of my dreams (2:23) -- The farmer and the cowman (2:57) -- All er nothin' (2:58) -- Oklahoma (3:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway/Angel Records 1993