Paul Newman
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between General Leslie Groves, the project director, and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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English
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Here are the greats of ancient Greece--gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters--as freshly described in words and pictures as if they were alive today. In print for over fifty years, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths has introduced generations to Greek mythology-- and continues to enthrall young readers. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published drawings from the sketchbook of Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, plus an essay...
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1 videodisc (2 hrs., 8 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
7) Hombre
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
8) The sting
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
10) From the terrace
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1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of a young man whose struggle for success threatens his personal happiness.
12) Empire Falls
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2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
14) The hustler
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1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
15) Slap shot
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The coach of the Chiefs, a struggling minor-league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition. --
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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1 videodisc (NTSC, 110 min.) : DVD video, DVD-R, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sent behind enemy lines to free five Allied generals by being imprisoned with them, Harry Frigg uses his hilarious talent for escape and his new rank of Major General (he's promoted from private overnight) to create havoc for friend and foe.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 164 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([32] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm) and 8 lobby cards
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English
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On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
20) Harper
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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
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