Howard Hawks
1) Hatari
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.): sd., color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
5) El Dorado
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.
6) Ball of Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
8) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (426 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
10) Hatari!
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
11) Monkey business
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chemist discovers a potent rejuvenation drug that restores youth but with some hilarious results.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World-weary Harry Morgan is not about to help the Free French. But he and his sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. Since WWII is raging all around them, business is not what it could be and after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the French resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to...
14) Rio Bravo
Language
English
Description
On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ace fishing equipment salesman and renowned author on the subject can't stand the outdoors or fishing. A public relations representative for a major fishing tournament wants Rock to be the competition's star attraction. When he confesses he doesn't know the first thing about the sport, Prentiss and a con man attempt to give the expert a crash course on being a great outdoorsman.
16) Red river
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Dunson, a tyrannical Texas rancher, is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew, turns against him.
17) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92, 31 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page.
Cary Grant on film: A biography of the career of Cary Grant, with selections of scenes from his movies highlighting his career.
20) Rio Lobo
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.