Summary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHISummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GORSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: One of the most memorable of the early television police dramas, which debuted in 1957 running for three seasons on NBC. The story was about a decorated WWII Marine veteran of the South Pacific, where he received the Purple Heart in the Battle of Saipan, Lt. Frank Ballinger, a no-nonsense Chicago plainclothes cop in the elite M Squad Division.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MSummary: The story of a man who becomes a legend and an important political figure by falsely claiming he shot a ruthless gunman (Liberty Valance).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2017
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MANSummary: Six classic westerns starring Hollywood cowboy legend Randolph Scott. Desperadoes: when a bank is robbed, the sherrif's best friend who is an ex-outlaw is the prime suspect -- Nevadan: an undercover operation to discover the location of stolen loot is complicated by a greedy rancher and his beautiful daughter -- Santa Fe: an ex-Confederate soldier begins to work for the Yankee-funded Santa Fe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RANSummary: 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 World War II drama in which an army major selects 12 men convicted for crimes of violence and offers them their freedom if they will complete a dangerous mission behind Nazi lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1967
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIRSummary: At the end of the Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on, the troop seeks refuge in a stagecoach waystation. A feisty ex-Union army nurse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hangman's 2010Summary: A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is gunned down and left for dead. He resurfaces to track down his share of the loot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POISummary: Death Hunt: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Butch & Sundance: The Early Years: A prequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the hit Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUTSummary: Twelve tough criminals will be offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Based on E.M. Nathanson's book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIRSummary: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EMPSummary: "Facing a changing landscape where barbed wire and railways replace the freedom of the open range, Monte Walsh (Marvin) and his fellow cowboys consider new work opportunities, toy with the idea of 'settling down', and draw their pistols for one last showdown."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILSummary: 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: A straitlaced Boston heiress goes to a tropical atoll in search of her errant father, encountering the somewhat debauched clientele of Donovan's Reef, the local saloon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1983