Summary: Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIASummary: George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLASummary: Three British Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier, helped by a young Indian water boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GUNSummary: Portrays the struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family at the turn of the century in San Francisco.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007