Summary: Five digitally remastered classics from Hal Roach Studios: Sons Of The Desert, The Music Box, Another Fine Mess, Busy Bodies, and County Hospital. Bonus features include: bios, trivia game, location tour, Hal Roach tribute and photo montage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LAUSummary: For the first time on home video come all three Hal Roach 'Taxi' streamliners starring William Bendix (The Life of Riley)--with each film culled from original studio masters! Joining Bendix and Sawyer in all three films, and holding her own, is the delightful Grace Bradley (as Mrs. McGuerin), who was perhaps best known offscreen as the wife of moviedom's 'Hopalong Cassidy,' William Boyd. Also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: All-American co-ed: With enrollment on the decline, girls college Mar Brynn needs notoriety to promote their school. Their target: the boys in Quinceton College's Zeta fraternity, who are publicly tarnished as "least likely to succeed". Out for revenge, Zeta plans to embarrass Mar Brynn by having one of their boys pose as a girl. Starring songstress Frances Langford and former silent Our Gang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1941
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COMSummary: The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SAFSummary: "This special three movie collection is a must-have for any fan of Hal Roach with each film culled from the original Hal Roach Studio masters. The Hollywood producer who presided over the "Lot of Fun" created the concept of the "streamliner" in the 1940s --- motion pictures that met the feature film and movie short halfway to economize on production costs and accommodate the playbills of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: "Pitts and Summerville, anti-Nazi wartime comedies and the CineColor produced The Fabulous Joe make up this special fifth volume of Hal Roach streamliners from ClassicFlix -- with each film culled from original studio masters!"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: The Cook : When a tough guy annoys the pretty cashier, the waiter and a feisty dog come to her defense. A reckless romeo : A philandering husband is caught when his attempts at indiscretion are filmed by a newsreel camerman. Number please: a man chases his girlfriend's dog around a seaside resort, on the roller-coaster and merry-go-round.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COOSummary: Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OFSummary: Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Stymie, Darla and the rest of the Little Rascals are back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment/Artisan Home Entertainment [distributor] 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITSummary: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He pleas to the "little man" for brotherly love and democratic good will and John Doe clubs are formed. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero, but he is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner of the paper, who plans to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Roach Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEESummary: In 1957, Hal Roach Studios and producer Ben Fox brought the fast-paced police drama Code 3 to television. It starred Robert Travis as Sheriff George Barrett of the Los Angeles County Police Department. Like its sister series Dragnet, Code 3 featured true crime cases. At the end of the broadcasts, the real-life Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Eugene W. Biscailuz, made an appearance to recap that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CODSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: A young couple find themselves stranded in the rural town of Gatlin, Nebraska, where they encounter a mysterious religious sect of children. But nowhere in town are there any adults. The horror grows to a blood-curdling climax as the two new visitors learn the horrifying secret behind the prospering corn fields.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011