Summary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: When an opportunistic physician (Rock Hudson) travels to the jungles of Java, a shocking meeting with a black magic witch doctor forces him to re-evaluate his selfish past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SPISummary: A suspenseful manhunt saga. A relentless foe tracks Army scout Gregory Peck as he attempts to lead a woman once held captive by Apaches to safety.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN STASummary: The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOSummary: A staid, dull Englishman abruptly abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to become a painter in the South Seas. Loosely inspired by Paul Gauguin's life, this is the story of Charles Strickland, a stock broker who, to follow his dream of becoming a painter, leaves his life behind and he becomes an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty. By W. Somerset Maugham.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOOSummary: Three teenage friends convey the hilarity of their awkward sexual quest and the genuine pain of growing up. Hermie is finally united with an "older woman" of 22.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SUMSummary: A poignant and bittersweet tale of tender sexual discovery in the rural Louisiana of the 1950s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSummary: "The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic, Soap took viewers into the homes of not one but two of the most dysfunctional families ever-- and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008