Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUTSummary: Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RoadSummary: A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ABSSummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CARSummary: Ram and Eddie are two jazz musicians living in Paris. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them or stay in Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARSummary: A veteran thief faking a stroke, his very sexy nurse and her earnest, boring husband are going after money. All they have to do is steal an armored truck, impersonate the guards, collect bags of cash at the pick-up sites and then show up for work the next morning as if nothing happened!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CATSummary: A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hombre 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOMSummary: After the death of his father, Lonnie must choose between his grandfather and his uncle, who are at odds with one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUDSummary: Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic HudSummary: Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUSSummary: When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Survivors struggling to stay alive during the final ice age spend their last hours playing Quintet, a macabre kind of backgammon, as packs of wild dogs roam around looking for corpses to feed upon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The men of New Zealand march off to war, leaving behind cities and villages filled with women and loneliness. In time, new men come ashore: U.S. Marines facing uncertain futures in Pacific battles yet to come. And new loves, tender or tragic, transitory or lasting, begin to flower.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNTSummary: Alcoholic lawyer finds a chance to redeem himself by accepting an unwinnable case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS/Fox Video 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VERD'Aulaire, Ingri
Summary: A collection of Greek myths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.D'Aulaire, Ingri
Summary: A collection of Greek myths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J D'AUSummary: In Stockholm, Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature, American writer Andrew Craig stumbles across a plot to kidnap a fellow Nobel laureate. On arrival at the hotel, he meets physicist Prof. Max Stratman. They have a pleasant conversation and agree to meet for drinks the next day. When they meet again however, the Professor acts as if he's never met Craig. With his propensity for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THESummary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER ALF1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD THRILLER ALF