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The ill-fated lovers Frankie and Johnny were already legends by 1930, the year of this illustrated drama's publication. The unique interpretation is a collaboration between John Huston, the future director of The Maltese Falcon and other film classics, and Miguel Covarrubias, an influential painter and caricaturist. Huston, who reputedly interviewed a neighbor of the real-life Frankie and Johnny, was inspired to adapt the tale of love gone wrong for...
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289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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At the age of four, Allegra Huston lost her mother and was introduced to her "father," the legendary film director John Huston. Then at age twelve she was introduced to her real father, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. With clear-eyed tenderness, Allegra tells of how she forged bonds with both her famous fathers, transforming her mother's difficult legacy into a hard-won blessing.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A brilliant, driven film director determines to turn his new film project in Africa into a grand personal adventure hunting a wild elephant, in a story loosely based on John Huston's filming of "The African Queen."
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viii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An account of the heroic but tragic campaign of Captain Henry Waskow's 36th Division documents their successful mission to drive away German forces from the mountain region infamously dubbed "Purple Heart Valley" at the cost of Waskow and 80 percent of his company.
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"In this candid biography, newly updated and revised, Lawrence Grobel chronicles the remarkable story of the Huston family, which boasts three Oscar winners, from Walter to John to Angelica, with particular attention to the rich career and tumultuous personal life of director/actor John Huston (1906-1987)."--Page 4 of cover.
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The first major biography of the famous and controversial director John Huston, whose thirty-seven films - including The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, and The African Queen - are considered classics and garnered him fifteen Academy Award nominations and two wins.
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2 videodiscs (281 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Presented in cooperation with the National Archives and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this collection features four documentaries directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen) as part of his service as an officer in the Army Signal Corps. The documentaries are not simple propaganda, but reflect Huston's own changing attitudes toward war. Winning Your Wings (18:19 min) is a recruitment film for the U.S. Army Air...
10) Chinatown
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
11) Moby Dick
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life -- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
13) Cannery row
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
14) The hobbit
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A long time ago, in Middle Earth, humans shared their days with elves, wizards, goblins, dragons, heroes ... and hobbits. Just minding his own business, Bilbo has a guest, Gandolf, drop in on him. Soon, one by one a whole group of dwarves drop in and Bilbo finds himself joining the quest to reclaim their kingdom from an evil dragon.
15) Key Largo
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
16) The unforgiven
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A family on the frontier adopts a young girl, but the Indians claim that the girl is one of them, and they want her back.
17) The misfits
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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