Ladd Company
1) Braveheart
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
William Wallace is a bold Scotsman who used the steel of his blade and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 4-year-old girl has disappeared from her Boston home, and the police are making little headway in solving the case. The girl's aunt hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case--to find six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters...
4) Night Shift
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 digital disc 106 minutes
Language
English
Description
Tired of the high pressure of Wall Street, Charles Lumley takes a nice, quiet job in the New York City Morgue. But then Billy Blazejowski turns up with an idea on how to liven things up.
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 digital disc 83 minutes
Language
English
Description
Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued their first assignments. Their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti daubing terrorists?
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (193 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton-- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.
7) Outland
Pub. Date
c1997, 1981
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on on of Jupiter's innermost moons.
8) Body heat
Pub. Date
[1981]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (193 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton -- the seven men chosen for the Mercury Project manned space flight program in the U.S.
10) Blade runner
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.
11) Braveheart
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
12) Police academy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mayor decides to loosen the restrictions at the Police Academy. Soon, the new class is overrun with misfits and losers, including Carey Mahoney, who must choose between the force or jail; Karen, a pretty cadet whom Mahoney has his eye on; Moses Hightower, a mountain of a man who likes to tend flowers; and Larvell Jones, who has the ability to imitate the sound of practically anything. Commandant Lassard and Lt. Harris, are not thrilled with their...
14) Night shift
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
1 videodisc of 1 (laser) (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in. viewing copy.
Language
English
Description
Charles Lumley, III used to be a high-pressure Wall Street financial analyst, until the pressure drove him up the wall. Now he works the night shift at the New York City Morgue where everything is very quiet. Then Billy Blaze Blazejowski turns up on his shift. He has many ideas and his latest brainstorm is guaranteed to make the morgue much more lively.
15) Blade runner
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (Blu-ray) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book ([42] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 2019. Jaded ex-cop Rick Deckard is hired to track down and 'retire' a rogue group of Nexus 6 replicants, highly advanced androids designed to supply 'off-world' labour that have escaped to Earth. As they appear totally human and have been programmed with emotions and false memories, the task of eliminating them is doubly difficult, and they themselves may be unaware that they are machines."--Film Index International.
16) Looker
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment.
17) Blade runner
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 skin jobs, the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The...