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Burt Lancaster
1) Local hero
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Dr. Moreau is brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits the island laboratory he discovers experiments turning animal life forms into human-like beasts. The beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind.
9) Criss cross
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue.
10) Field of dreams
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
12) Local hero
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Criterion collection volume 994
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations).
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
13) Executive action
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assassination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
14) Boot Hill
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1 videodisc (170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Boot Hill a wealthy town boss causes trouble and two brothers have no choice but to meet the challenge with guns blazing. In Vengeance Valley hardworking Owen is framed by his jealous brother for a crime he didn't commit.
15) Zulu dawn
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This story recounts the defeat of the British forces at the hands of a 25,000 strong and relentlessly determined Zulu army.
16) The Rainmaker
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
17) Field of dreams
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2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a mysterious voice, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella constructs a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield.
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1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vengeance Valley: a ranch foreman (Lancaster) is continually battling his wayward brother in this melodramatic story on the western range. The Sundowners: Robert Preston and Robert Sterling star in the story of two brothers pitted against one another while on opposite sides of the law.
20) Elmer Gantry
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.