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1) The marksman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rancher on the Mexican border in Arizona protects an eleven-year-old Mexican boy fleeing assassins sent after him by a drug cartel.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sleepy desert town of Prosperity, Arizona, is being menaced by giant arachnids that have mutated through exposure to toxic waste. The local sheriff and her teenage daughter work to prevent a complete takeover by the bloodthirsty spiders, getting valuable help from Prosperity's prodigal son, who's just returned to his embattled hometown.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
4) Evolution
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It all starts with a meteorite falling to earth near Glen Canyon, Arizona. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College go to investigate. While taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid oozing from the meteorite. Kane finds myriad single-celled life-forms in the fluid, evolving at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What seemed like a sure ticket to Sweden for the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.
6) Billy Jack
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy Jack is a half-white Native American and ex-Green Beret who returns to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the progressive Freedom School and the idealist woman who runs it. When tensions flare between the students and the narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector. One again, violence finds him.
7) Management
Author
Language
English
Description
Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Judge Hardy gets a cry for help from his old school chum Dora, he packs the whole clan up and heads out west to help her save her ranch. Landing where the buffalo roam, Judge Hardy sets to 'researches and strategizes' for a legal answer to Dora's water rights issues while Andy tries to pass as a Westerner with disastrous results.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The racist army commander of an Arizona outpost must change his feelings for Native Americans when he falls for a beautiful Apache missionary. His attempts at reformation are frustrated by a band of gold-hungry miners who want to start a war with the Apaches.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Garner is Nichols, the reluctant sheriff of a small Western town, in this quirky, offbeat series. It's 1914 and a violence-weary Nichols has returned to his Arizona home after eighteen years in the army. Forced into becoming its new lawman by the tough and powerful rancher whose family runs the town, Nichols refuses to carry a gun as he takes on bank robbers, Apaches, con artists, banditos and more, armed with only his wits and his charm. Contains...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. She is courted by Andy Griffith and Steve Forrest, both of whom ride to the rescue when she is captured by outlaws.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his parish closes, a big-hearted California preacher is dispatched to a church in tiny Eufala, Arizona, a land of rodeos, square dances, love struck goats, and amateur musicals. Can Pastor Randy and his loved ones keep their sanity long enough to inspire a community that's gone astray?
13) Lust for gold
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man searches for a fabled gold mine worth tens of millions of dollars.
14) Hombre
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A white man raised by an Arizona Apache tribe is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house he inherits.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way, and in the end the unscrupulous citizen who dominates the town repents.
16) The marksman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, but his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cable returns to his Arizona home to resume a quiet life. Instead, he finds Union sympathizers (David and Keith Carradine) have taken possession of the small spread. The war should be over. But Cable faces one more battle before the healing can begin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 954
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge. When U.S. Marshal Griff Bonell (Barry Sullivan) and his...
19) The marksman
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rancher on the Mexican border in Arizona protects an eleven-year-old Mexican boy fleeing assassins sent after him by a drug cartel.
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