Tiomkin, Dimitri
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TIOSummary: Marcus Aurelius Antonius is philosopher-emperor of Rome who summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FALSummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1951
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: A heart-warming story about the day-to-day experiences of a Quaker family living in Indiana in 1862, showing their religious beliefs, their worldly temptations, their petty feuds, and their reactions in a time of crisis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRIContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIGSummary: "John Doe," a genial and aimless tramp, 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. Because of his simple sincerity, he becomes a national hero; John Doe clubs are formed and a spontaneous movement begins. John Doe is shocked when he discovers that it's all a plot by the owner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 1998Summary: A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DIASummary: Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998