Summary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to take up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride, a Quaker who is opposed to violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 1998
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HIGSummary: George Bailey, a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment, Inc. 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ITSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IT'SSummary: Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bells 2003Contents: Introduction / Patrick Keating -- The silent screen, 1894-1927 / Patrick Keating -- Classical Hollywood, 1928-1946 / Chris Cagle -- Postwar Hollywood, 1947-1967 / Lisa Dombrowski -- The auteur renaissance, 1968-1980 / Bradley Schauer -- The new Hollywood, 1981-1999 / Paul Ramaeker -- The modern entertainment marketplace, 2000-present / Christopher Lucas -- Academy Award winners and nominations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 777 CINHambly, Barbara
Summary: May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara
Summary: "1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamourous movie-star Kitty Flint--even if her late husband's sister is one of the worst actresses she's ever seen. Looking after Kitty and her three adorable Pekinese dogs isn't work academically-minded Emma dreamed of, but Kitty rescued her when she was all alone in the world. Now, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While the earliest motion pictures were admired simply for their novelty, viewers soon demanded more than raw footage of trains, sneezes, and other random subjects. This program describes the discovery of sex as a surefire cinematic attraction and the outrages it provoked among religious and civic authorities during Hollywood's formative years. Documenting the rise of William Hays as the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Armstrong, Louis
Contents: Top hat, white tie and tails (4:08) -- Have you met Miss Jones? (4:35) -- I only have eyes for you (4:11) -- Stormy weather (4:15) -- Home (5:47) -- East of the sun (and west of the moon) (3:00) -- You're blase (4:56) -- Body and soul (4:42) -- When your lover has gone (4:36) -- You're the top (2:29) -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen (4:52) -- We'll be together again (4:03) -- I've got the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Mulligan, Gerry.
Contents: Chelsea Bridge / Strayhorn -- Tell me when ; Bunny ; 18 carrots for rabbit / Mulligan -- Come rain or come shine / Mercer ; Arlen -- Red door / Sims ; Mulligan -- Scrapple from the apple / Parker -- This can't be love / Rodgers ; Hart -- Line for Lyons / Mulligan -- Body and soul / Green ; Heyman ; Sour.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1985
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MULSummary: After World War II, the wholesomeness of American movies faced a tidal wave of change-from outside, as a growing number of provocative foreign films made their way to the U.S., and from within, as car culture flowered and drive-in theaters sprang up across the country. This program documents the period, from the birth of art house cinema to the ascent of boundary-busting American actors and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In what many see as Hollywood's Golden Age, the offices of William Hays and Joseph Breen worked overtime to combat sexuality and subversion in American movies. This program examines the products of that era-films that danced around the standards of the Production Code and paved the way for increasingly daring storytelling and images. From the modesty of It Happened One Night to the shocking and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In 1965, the Catholic Legion of Decency closed its doors; the following year, the Hays Code was scrapped. This program looks at the cinematic milestones which prompted these events and the age of freewheeling film artistry that ensued, despite attempts at censorship issuing from the highest political level. Shedding light on the release of The Pawnbroker and director Sidney Lumet's historic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Davies, Nicola
Summary: Meera, Gemma, and Karl find an abandoned railway station and begin turning it into a farm, but run into trouble when the city wants to turn the site into a parking garage and must figure out a way to save their little piece of country in the city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DAVSummary: Three intrepid adventurers set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets the lonely lamb Cardigan, he immediately strikes up a friendship. When Cardigan gets sold to another farmer, he realizes that he must embark on an unforgettable journey to find his friend. Along the way he discovers that with courage, heart and the love of your friends, you can accomplish...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CSummary: When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Manchurian 2004Contents: Disc 1. Waikiki wedding (1937) / directed by Frank Tuttle ; Double or nothing (1937) / directed by Theodore Reed -- disc 2. East side of heaven (1939) / directed by David Butler ; If I had my way (1940) / directed by David Butler -- disc 3. Here come the Waves (1944) / Paramount Pictures ; produced and directed by Mark Sandrich.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BINGilberto, Astrud.
Contents: Once I loved (2:10) -- Agua de beber (2:16) -- Meditation (2:39) -- And roses and roses (2:30) -- O moro (2:55) -- How insensitive (2:45) -- Dindi (2:40) -- Photograph (2:10) -- Dreamer (2:00) -- So finha de ser com voce (2:15) -- All that's left is to say goodbye (3:09) -- The shadow of your smile (2:30) -- Aruanda (2:25) -- Manha de carnaval (1:55) -- Fly me to the moon (2:15) -- The gentle...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GILPerone, James E.
Contents: The young virtuoso, 1962-1964 -- The first three albums -- With a song in my heart and Stevie at the beach -- The soul shouter, 1965-1967 -- Uptight -- Down to earth -- I was made to love her -- Someday at Christmas -- The middle of the road, 1968-1970 -- Eivets rednow -- For once in my life -- My cherie amour -- Signed, sealed & delivered -- The independent artist, 1971-1973 -- Where I'm...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PERSummary: A man travels to Italy to claim his dead father's body, and discovers he has been conducting an affair there for years. Things get complicated when he falls for the woman's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AVASummary: A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainmenth 2001
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WITSummary: Two unemployed muscians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001