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3) Mogambo
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clark Gable portrays Victor, a safari guide, in this remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable Eloise, and Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roy Bean is a self-made man and saloon-keeper who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos River, and becomes known as the "Hanging Judge," though he wasn't a judge at all. He writes admiring letters to actress Lily Langtry and makes his own kind of frontier justice in Texas.
5) On the beach
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. As his emotional state continues to unravel, and the group's problems increase,...
7) Show boat
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a disaster?"--Container.
9) The killers
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...