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1) Lost horizon
Series
Pub. Date
1937.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) :; sd., b&w ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.)
Language
English
Description
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Series
Language
English
Description
When small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds (Cooper) heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett (Arthur), a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. So when he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hardboiled Bennett in disguise, a disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away, an act of charity his crooked lawyer...
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.
6) Gilda
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's 'main man.' All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda-- a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill...
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
12) The last hurrah
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
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