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Series
Criterion collection volume 950
Language
English
Description
Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Join the fabulous comedian Hector Suarez to revisit some of his most creative characterizations, including the darling Dona Soyla, Tomas and his double entendre riddles, Mexico's most charismatic soccer player, and many more.
3) Extasis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Rober, a reckless 25-year-old concocts an outrageous scheme with friend Max and girlfriend Lola-- they will rob their families and flee their hometown. The trio's plan goes awry when Rober betrays them.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (56 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Three Mesquiteers was the umbrella title for a series of 51 B-westerns released between 1936 and 1943. In Red River Range, the fourth of eight John Wayne Mesquiteers films, The Cattlemen's Association has called in the three amigos, Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith, and Lullaby Joslin, to find a gang of cattle rustlers. Their friend Tex Riley poses as Stony so the real Stony can go undercover as an outlaw to infiltrate the gang.
5) Sommersby
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features the Kick Ass sketch, a new take on rising for the national anthem, camp debonair Simbold Cleobury, The Bishop and the Warlord on Top of the Pops, and Tony Inchpractic's "Photocopying my genitals with ..."
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An actual, honest-to-goodness royal princess runs off from her official obligations and duties for a couple of days around Christmas to see how the other half lives. She winds up falling for a young man who shows her his side of the city. Will he still feel the same way once he learns the truth about her?
8) Bobby Z
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marked for death by a biker gang, ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive. A scheming DEA agent needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased druglord Bobby Z and Tim happens to be a dead ringer.
9) Habit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A street smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a Nun.
10) On the double
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid American soldier bears a striking resemblance to a famous British Colonel. The Military Intelligence decides to use the poor chap as a pawn and recruit the naive soldier to impersonate the legendary Colonel, who's highly targeted by the Nazi assassins.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pair of con men hide out in a house when they discover the owner will be away for a couple of months and the housesitter can't make it. The owner's relatives show up, so they pretend to be the housesitters.
12) Beggars of life
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
None
Description
After escaping her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
13) Up in smoke
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock'n'roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles, and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
15) Let's be cops
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops. When two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.
16) Black like me
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (1 hr. 23 min., 1 hr. 21 min., 1 hr. 19 min., 1 hr. 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sierra: based on the novel by Stuart Hardy.
Sierra: Ring and his father Jeff live in a hidden valley in the mountains where they capture and tame wild horses. When Ring comes to the rescue of Riley Martin, a woman lawyer who has lost her way on the trail, it leads to a romance between them but also opens an investigation into Jeff's shadowy past and accusations of murder.
Ride clear of Diablo: When Clay O'Mara goes after rustlers who murdered his...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam buys (and steals) fashionable dress designs for a New York department store. When the store sends her to Paris for fashion week, she meets a newspaper columnist who takes no interest in her until she pretends to be the worldly call girl, "Mimi."
19) Dave
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kline stars as an off-the-wall, temporary replacement for the missing president. His unusual style of governing and decision making tip off the opposition that something is definitely "out-of-order" in Washington.
20) Some like it hot
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two unemployed muscians accidently witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
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