Summary: London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Croupier 2004Summary: A small-time gangster journeys to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother's killing. Once there he finds himself drawn into the local underworld where he encounters the full spectrum of violence and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GETSummary: As a school bus merrily speeds past an army caravan, it suddenly explodes. Stunned and horrified Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) flees. He had planted the bomb for soldiers, not to kill innocent children. Now, Fallon seeks to escape his violent life against all odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRASummary: Based on a true crime story that shocked '20s Britain, this compelling story stars Michael Kitchen as Major Herbert Armstrong, a staid lawyer in a small Welsh town who was charged with poisoning his wife and a business rival with arsenic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1994