Summary: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM-UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADASummary: The only compassion cattle baron Matt Devereaux shows is for his Native American wife, and their son Joe. So after Joe agrees to take a three-year jail term for a crime his father commits, and his father then dies, Joe's three half-brothers take over the land - with a vengeance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BROSummary: The classic story of a good doctor who dares to venture into the unknown by injecting himself with a potion that turns him into a raging beast.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRESummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video 1988
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: A woman athlete of enormous promise in the worlds of both tennis and golf is pursued by a shady promoter who hopes to make her famous and make some money in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Loew's Incorporated [producer] 1952
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PATSummary: Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEASummary: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATSummary: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUESummary: An aging Cuban fisherman, alone in a small skiff, catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea, marauding sharks, and his own flagging strength to bring his great catch home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic OldCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OldSummary: In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Home Video 2000
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOMSummary: When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic CaptainsCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAPSummary: It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIBSummary: A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic DeskSummary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video] 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INHSummary: A group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY IT'SSummary: When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IT'SSummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUDSummary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015