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Ballard, J. G 1930- Film and video adaptations Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama Criminal psychology United States Drama Hotels and motels Nevada Las Vegas Drama Mafia California Los Angeles Drama Man-woman relationship United States Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Siegel, Bugsy 1906-1947 Drama World War, 1939-1945 Children China Shanghai Drama World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese DramaFilter By Subjects
Ballard, J. G 1930- Film and video adaptations Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama Criminal psychology United States Drama Hotels and motels Nevada Las Vegas Drama Mafia California Los Angeles Drama Man-woman relationship United States Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Siegel, Bugsy 1906-1947 Drama World War, 1939-1945 Children China Shanghai Drama World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese DramaSummary: The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ColorSummary: The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites. Defending your life: A man who is killed in a car accident ends up in 'Judgment City', a holding station for souls, where a person must defend themselves...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE 4FILSummary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001