Peck, Gregory
Summary: Captain Ahab, obsessed with the whale who disfigured him, forces his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBSummary: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, 162 min.): British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BRISummary: After a sea captain arrives in the Old West to marry the daughter of a wealthy rancher, he becomes caught up in the confrontations of the people around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): One of Billy The Kid's oldest friends is now a sheriff and has vowed to hunt him down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Guns 1961Summary: During World War II, the commander of an Eighth Air Force bomber group in England drives his men to the point of breaking until he himself cracks under the strain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: Escape from Fort Bravo (1953): Union Officer William Holden contends with Johnny Reb prisoners inside Fort Bravo ... and fierce Indians outside. John Sturges directs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WESSummary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOSummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENSummary: Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive who defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the Biblical prophecy of the warning which will foretell the coming of Armageddon. The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil will begin with the birth of the son of Satan -- in human form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2000
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR OMEMitchell, Millard
Summary: An infamous gunslinger tries to give up his life of violence, but his reputation gets in the way of his plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GUNSummary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOXSummary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: A modern-day princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Roman 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROMSummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIGSummary: A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1978
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BOYSummary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007