Hume Cronyn
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II rages overseas, the prestigious Devon prep school holds a summer session for boys trying to graduate before they are drafted. Among the students are two unlikely new roommates - Gene, a quiet, introspective bookworm; and Finny, a carefree and wildly popular athlete. Charmed by Finny, Gene joins him for a series of exciting escapades. But when Gene's grades decline, he suspects that Finny secretly wants him to fail. Fueled by anger and...
Pub. Date
1999, c1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous real estate developer sends thugs to a tenement to get rid of the last five tenants. The five are visited by tiny visitors from outer space who turn the tide with magical powers.
Pub. Date
2000, 1997.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of farmer and recent widower John Webb and what happens when a Texas oil man offers mineral rights to his land. The family becomes divided over the propect of easy cash.
5) Foxfire
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 90 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her son asks her to move to the city, an elderly woman is torn between his wishes and her many memories of sharing country life with her late husband.
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts, especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Noah Praetorius, M.D., a doctor who believes that knowledge of the human emotions and spirit is as necessary for a medical person as anatomy. Affronted by these radical beliefs, old-liner Dr. Elwell sets out to prove he's a quack. But Dr. Praetorius simply practices what he preaches when he saves an unwed pregnant student from suicide and marries her.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Nazi Germany in 1936, this is the story of George Heisler who along with six others escapes from a concentration camp. One by one the others are captured while George keeps one step ahead and is aided by others who risk their own lives to help him.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
11) Cocoon
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 video disc (136 minutes): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original American icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving's novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams' dramatic work in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar winner* Good Will Hunting will also savor his Garp, a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery,...