Summary: Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GUNSummary: Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEYSummary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie West 2003Summary: Taken in by a kindly couple, a six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks in this adaption of a classic Grimm fairy tale. Showcases Academy Award winning special effects that combine live actors, animation, and puppets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOMSummary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICAL WESSummary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson before them, the brilliant but curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his streetwise sidekick Archie Goodwin are crime's greatest nemeses. With Nero preferring to solve crimes at home amid his orchid collection, it is Archie who does the legwork about town to allow Wolfe to unravel the most confounding crimes. Together the duo cracks cases of murder, deception, blackmail,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Studios Inc. 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NERSummary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2011
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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY MUSICALS WESBernstein, Leonard
Contents: Overture (4:40) -- Prologue (6:37) -- Jet song (2:06) -- Something's coming (2:32) -- Dance at the gym (9:28) -- Maria (2:36) -- America (4:59) -- Tonight (6:40) -- Gee, Officer Krupke (4:14) -- Intermission music (1:26) -- I feel pretty (3:36) -- One hand, one heart (3:02) -- Quintet (3:22) -- The rumble (2:43) -- Somewhere (2:04) -- Cool (4:22) -- A boy like that/I have a love (4:30) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WESSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: A Hollywood movie crew is in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production with Kansas as their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Bushrod Gentry is a right restless man, a bullwhip-crackin', tough-brawlin' trapper passing through Barren River, Kentucky, and heading for the pelts and promise of the Northwest Territory. He'll never get there if Mary Stuart Cherne has her way. It's marryin' season, the preacher is making his annual visit to Barren River and Mary has her heart and rifle barrel set on buckskinned bachelor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANSummary: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004