Edward G. Robinson
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile after Egypt's Pharoah lays down an edict condemning all first-born Hebrew males. Saved by the Pharoah's daughter, he is adopted and brought up as Egyptian royalty. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt and into the desert, where he has a fateful encounter with God.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about Tony Manetta, a small-time Miami Beach hotel operator barely able to make the payments on his own modest inn, who dreams of one day opening a million dollar resort. In addition to bill collectors, Tony must contend with his beatnik girlfriend and his well-meaning but conservative brother and sister-in-law. Through thick and thin, however, one thing remains constant: the love between Tony and his young son who admires him even if he isn't...
Language
English
Description
Laura Penney accidentally fell in her apartment and died. Or perhaps she was pushed. Either way, on-air film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) is suspect because he was there. He skims the hurdles of his perfect crime: a detective (Adam Arkin), a girlfriend, and a private investigator. Will he pull it off?.
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time hood rises to criminal fame and power in Chicago. Adapted from W.R. Burnett's novel.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile after Egypt's Pharoah lays down an edict condemning all first-born Hebrew males. Saved by the Pharoah's daughter, he is adopted and brought up as Egyptian royalty. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt and into the desert, where he has a fateful encounter with God.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
21st century New York is teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent green. As police detective Thorn investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous...
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (356 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
12) Scarlet Street
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A henpecked husband is drawn into a destructive affair that ends in tragedy.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
14) Key Largo
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up. He holds at gunpoint the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
15) Brother Orchid
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gangster escapes an attempt on his life by rival mobsters, and hides out in a monastery. He pretends that he is interested in becoming a monk so that the Brothers will let him stay while he plots his revenge.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes place among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma and explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name, but he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding...
Series
Fox film noir volume 17
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Max Monetti first gets out of prison, life seems good. The bank founded by his father and now run by his brothers is thriving. The society woman he loves has waited seven long years for him. But for Max, every day of those seven years was filled with hatred. And when he learns that his father died because he was squeezed out of the bank by the brothers after Max took a rap for him, that hatred bubbles to the surface, obliterating everything,...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name, but he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (349 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The public enemy: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war--www.imdb.com.
The roaring twenties: After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd...