Gene Hackman
4) Pursuit
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Physical Desc
344 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.
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1 videodisc (15 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"This 15-minute biography from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, presents the artist in her own words, using O'Keeffe's letters and archival footage from New York and the Southwest, as well as glorious views of Ghost Ranch and many of her works from the Museum's collection--Cover.
7) The chamber
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by the Army's legendary "Indian fighter" General George Crook, Geronimo leads a small band of warriors in escape, but is pursued by a principled officer, a grizzled army scout, and a gung-ho West Point graduate.
10) Bite the bullet
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
11) Hoosiers
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A local plumber is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States, who can't believe he's running against a man who installed his toilets. To make matters worse, the ex-president is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend. Whoever wins, one thing's for sure, this town is not small enough for both of them.
13) Antz
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
14) Superman II
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This epic takes up where Superman, the movie leaves off. Superman deals witha trio of villains whose powers rival Superman's own.
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1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each year The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe stages the burning of Will Shuster's Zozobra, kicking off the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe on the weekend following Labor Day. Zozobra centers around the ritual burning in effigy of Old Man Gloom, or Zozobra, to dispel the hardships and travails of the past year.
16) Wyatt Earp
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2 videodiscs (approximately 190 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The biography of the legendary Wyatt Earp, including the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral.
17) Get Shorty
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel, the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash and Superman saves the Statue of Liberty, repulses a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuilds the demolished Great Wall of China and performs many more spectacular feats.
19) Night moves
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former football player and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her stepdaughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection with the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder...
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the American film and television industry's response to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi persecution of the Jews before, during, and after World War II. Uses film clips, newsreel footage and interviews of filmmakers and Holocaust survivors.