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"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them. Includes both the U.S. (English, 118 min) and International cut (French, 125 min).
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lazy would-be thief Michael owes local gangster Perrier more money than he can pay. When a burglary to raise funds goes awry, Michael's lovesick suicidal neighbor kills one of the goons who come to collect and he is forced to go on the run. Dragging along his neighbor, not to mention his foul-mouthed, death-obsessed father, Michael has to stay one step ahead of the crime world while keeping his dad one step ahead of the Grim Reaper.
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x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
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"Matt Birkbeck's THE LIFE WE CHOSE: The Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Crime Family, a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes and ears of William "Big Billy" D'Elia, who spent his adult life as the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who for more than 50 years ran organized crime in the U.S. from his home in Pittston, PA"--
6) Incensed
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In Taiwan, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for prioritizing family. When 25-year-old Jing-nan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, asks a favor, Jing-nan can't exactly say no, especially because two goons are going to follow him around to make sure he gets it done right. The favor is this: Big Eye's 16-year-old daughter, Mei-ling, has a biker boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks--in Big Eye's gangster opinion--and Big Eye wants Jing-nan to bring her...
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City volume 1
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278 pages ; 24 cm.
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Young, quick-witted and cocksure, Capac Raimi arrives in the City determined to make his mark in a world of sweet, sinister sin. Then Capac crosses paths with The Cardinal, and his life changes forever. Faced with hard choices and his own soaring ambition, Capac must find his way alone in this deadly world.
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City volume 2
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324 pages ; 24 cm.
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When Al Jeery is seconded by The Cardinal from guard duties at Party Central to investigate the murder of a woman at a hotel he little suspects that the dead woman will turn out to be his girlfriend. Soon he is involved in a terrifying mystery that draws in the dead, the city's Incan forefathers, the imposing figure of The Cardinal himself, and the near-mythical assassin, Paucar Wami.
9) Pistoleros
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Danish
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Notorious gangster Frank Lowies has hidden millions in cash before going to prison. Now every gunslinging scoundrel In town is on the hunt ... but where's the money?
Finally released from prison, a gangster must get to the stash from his last score before the rest of the Copenhagen underworld.
11) Little Caesar
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1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Little Caesar(1930): A small-time hood rises to criminal fame and power. Smart money(1931): A small-town barber who fancies himself a big-time gambler travels to the big city in the company of his younger brother, and they are soon running their own high-stakes racket.
12) Monkey business
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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The shenanigans start right away as the brothers stow away on a luxury liner. It's their first film that wasn't based on a play, as they endeavored to find new material.
13) Lady for a day
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (folded) in container
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Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending to be a high-society matron in letters to her daughter. When her daughter comes to visit with her aristocratic fiance, Apple Annie enlists her gangster friends for help.
14) Ball of fire
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up helping a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
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Distilled in Texas and the Delta, a straight-no-chaser crime novel set around the legendary Dixie Mafia
Manfred Eugene "Hog" Webern, a retired Dallas County deputy sheriff, is talked into going undercover in Biloxi, Mississippi, in a multistate effort to nail a group of traveling Southern criminals who have been tagged by the press with the lurid name "Dixie Mafia." After making contact with the gang's nominal leader, the notorious Jasper Sparks,...
16) High Sierra
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
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261 pages ; 21 cm.
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"The man known only as Cross and his multi-skilled team of urban mercenaries are back, this time invading one of Chicago's least desirable neighborhoods in a land-grab that has the entire underworld puzzled. Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you...
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Criterion collection volume 1120
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
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"In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend -- the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role -- and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to...
20) Speakeasy
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"In this literate and action-packed historical thriller, set during World War II, a plucky code-breaker fights to keep a deadly secret as her Bonnie-and-Clyde past threatens to catch up with her. Thirty-year-old Lena Stillman is living a perfectly respectable life when a shocking newspaper headline calls up her past: it concerns her former lover, charismatic bank robber Bill Bagley. A romantic and charming figure, Lena had tried to forget him by resuming...
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