Peck, Gregory
Summary: Captain Ahab, obsessed with the whale who disfigured him, forces his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBSummary: Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, 162 min.): British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge for their WWII Japanese captors, unaware of an Allied mission to blow it up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BRISummary: An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a sea captain arrives in the Old West to marry the daughter of a wealthy rancher, he becomes caught up in the confrontations of the people around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIGSummary: A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Guns 1961Summary: During World War II, the commander of an Eighth Air Force bomber group in England drives his men to the point of breaking until he himself cracks under the strain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWESummary: Escape from Fort Bravo (1953): Union Officer William Holden contends with Johnny Reb prisoners inside Fort Bravo ... and fierce Indians outside. John Sturges directs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN WESSummary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOXSummary: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BIGSummary: A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1978
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAPSummary: An English nurse and an American soldier have an affair on the Italian front during World War I; Hemingway's semi-autobiographical Nick Adams stories are dramatized; a writer lies feverish and delirious from an African hunting accident wound and feels like a failure as he reflects upon his life; a group of expatriates lives in Paris pursuing love, sex, and alcohol but happiness eludes them; a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ERNSummary: Charles and Ray Eames are American designers of the 20th century, best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts. They were also prolific filmmakers. The legacy of the husband and wife team includes more than 100 short films that reflect the breadth and depth of interests and the integrity of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOWSummary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MobySummary: After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 2005Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOSummary: A young boy, Jody, living with his family on the Florida frontier shortly after the Civil War, must sacrifice his pet fawn for his family's survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY YEASummary: Complilation of 7 films with introduction to the work of designers Charles and Ray Eames. 'Toccata for toy trains' is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. 'House : after five years of living' illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. 'Lucia chase vignette' follows a sister chasing her brother through the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FILSummary: 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: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000