Summary: Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Using rare historical acts and interviews and performances by living legends, Clint Eastwood explores piano blues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Manufactured by Columbia Music Video 2003
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BLU V6Summary: A distillation of the five-disc series, this album has so many different artists and styles that it is made very clear that the blues are as varied and individual as the artists themselves.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UTV Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MARSummary: Jen the Gelfling must undertake a dangerous quest to restore the all-powerful Dark Crystal, in order to return light and order to the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DARSummary: A naive student freshly arrived in New York City accepts a delivery job involving a shady businessman and a large lizard, eventually running afoul of an eccentric chef and the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRESummary: Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The intertwining storylines of an art dealer, a thief, a police chief inspector, a gun dealer, an inventor, a beautician, several bums, and a crazy old man play out as an 18th century chinaware set and a 19th century portrait pass in and out of their hands. A surreal cinematic Rubik's cube that examines the bizarre twists of fate that draw people and possessions together and apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAVSummary: A young girl is brutally murdered. The prime suspect is a cold and reclusive man who is obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. He spends his nights watching her through his window, but when she discovers that she is being spied on, she becomes the aggressor in an erotically charged relationship that leads to a deadly game of cat -and -mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUSummary: The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR JOHSummary: A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brentwood Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 1949Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEVSummary: In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere, condemned witch Princess Asa returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2012
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLASummary: Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGSummary: Former private detective Jeff Baily is trying to lead a quiet life, but his past comes back to haunt him and he finds himself framed for murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OUTSummary: Two down-and-out Hollywood musicians stow away on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the vessel, the two fall for a young woman who is being forced into an arranged marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brentwood Home Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROACole, Melissa S.
Summary: Describes the manatees habitat, physical features, and special abilities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.55 COLSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: His picture in the papers: A young man can marry his sweetheart only if he becomes famous enough to have his picture printed in the paper; Mystery of the leaping fish: A satire on Sherlock Holmes which concerns a professional incident in the life of the world's greatest scientific detective; Flirting with fate: A struggling artist whose heart is broken when his sweetheart is promised in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSSummary: A gracious society matron decides to give her husband one last chance, but soon his ex-mistress shows up, brewing trouble and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EASContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Screen chronicle based on actual 1917 events outside Fatima, Portugal, where three shepherd children report visions of the Virgin Mary and confront anticlerical government oppression in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The nut: Charlie Jackson, is a Greenwich Village character who invents Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. He uses them to please his friends and his sweetheart, Estrell Wynn, but more often than not, they backfire; The mark of Zorro: Don Diego de la Vega is the son of a wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NUTSummary: Over 160 films survey the hitherto unknown accomplishments of pioneer filmmakers working in the United States and abroad during the formative period of American film. The series postulates an innovative and often controversial view of experimental cinema as a product of avant-garde artists, of Hollywood directors, and of amateur movie-makers working collectively and as individuals at all levels...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anthology Film Archives 2005