Universal Pictures (Firm)
1) Scoop
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky is visited by the ghost of a dead reporter who has received a very hot tip in the afterlife. He tells Sondra about a rising young politician named Lord Peter Lyman who may be the notorious tarot card serial killer. With the magician in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life. Sondra finds increasing evidence that the tip from the ghost is true, but finds herself falling...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs, 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock, was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
3) Thunderbirds
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tracy Island not only houses Jeff Tracy and his five sons, but also serves as headquarters for the top-secret International Rescue organization. A criminal mastermind known only as "The Hood" manages to get past the island's security measures and trys to take over International Rescue. His goal is to steal the five most advanced rescue vehicles and use them for his own agenda. With Jeff and his four eldest sons on a mission, there's only one person...
4) By the sea
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A married couple takes a vacation in France in the 1970s and find that their time in a sleepy seaside town, complete with a unique array of locals, strengthens their bond and reaffirms their marriage.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life -- and death. Madeline and Helen, rivals for the affections of Ernest, are both desperate to restore their youthful beauty, believing it is the only way to attract him. But while the potion each one purchases from a mysterious woman has the power to keep them beautiful, they find there is a down side to being immortal.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson, life is sweet. With a nice house and established careers, nothing seems to get in the newlyweds way. However, Carl's best friend, Dupree, has just been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in for what should just be a few days, turns into a lot more than they bargained for. Especially when Dupree overstays his welcome and in causes one hilarious...
8) U-571
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
10) October sky
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines, until he turned his attention to the skies.
12) Charade
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
13) Tár
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
14) The family man
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High-powered Wall Street bachelor Jack Campbell gets the shock of a lifetime when he wakes up one morning in suburban New Jersey, next to Kate, the girlfriend he left 13 years ago. Suddenly, Jack's entire world is turned upside down.
15) Cowboys & aliens
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Arizona in 1873, a stranger leads a posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against an alien enemy.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.
18) Fletch
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
20) Pillow talk
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.