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3) Laura
Series
Fox film noir volume 1
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Laura tells the shocking story of a Park Avenue society beauty murdered in her apartment, which brings detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) to New York's most elegant neighborhood. As he tries to get inside the head of the victim, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), he also questions the men in her life -- the acerbic critic Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) and playboy fiancé Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). Lulled by her stunning portrait, fine liquor,...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 318 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the 1920s and the infamous, intuitive crime-solver Mrs. Adela Bradley and her resourceful chauffeur, George solve a series of complex cases of blackmail, murder, sacrifice and mistaken identity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a two-year expedition into Antarctica, Dr. Arthur Calgary travels back to England to return his friend Jack Argyle's address book, which Jack had left in Arthur's car before his departure. Jack, however, is dead, executed after being framed for murder. Calgary has proof of his innocence; he was with Jack at the time of the murder. But why then does no one wish to reopen the case?
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hedy Lamarr is Madeleine Damien, a gorgeous and sophisticated fashion editor living life in the fast lane in an age when "good girls didn't." Depressed by her tarnished reputation, she deliberately crashes her car into a tree and lands on a psychiatrist's couch. Encouraged to change her ways, she starts over with a new name and a new career. She falls in love with a young doctor (Dennis O'Keefe) but her past-life returns to haunt her. Dragged into...
8) Dark places
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Libby Day was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were murdered and her brother Ben was jailed for the crime. Now, twenty-five years later, Libby discovers shocking evidence that Ben may be innocent, and the real killer still at large.
Physical Desc
19 videodiscs (3960 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Jack Frost is an unconventional policeman with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice. Sloppy, disorganized, and disrespectful, he attracts trouble like a magnet. Also includes bonus features.
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A jealous husband is accused of murder after a man his wife was flirting with turns up dead.
11) Wild horses
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death; even putting her own life...
12) The whole truth
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
13) County line
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After losing his bid for re-election as Sheriff of Maksville County, Alden Rockwell reluctantly settles into retirement. When good friend and neighboring county Sheriff, Clint Thorne, is gunned down while looking into local gang activities, Rockwell gets few answers from the newly-elected Sheriff and decides to take matters into his own hands.
14) Memento
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
15) Blackwood
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having recovered from an emotional breakdown and infidelity, college professor Ben Marshall and his family decide to relocate to the country for a fresh start. However, he starts finding himself plagued by haunted visions and hears persistent noises in their large country house. Ben becomes convinced a murder took place in the house and/or surrounding area. He becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind it to protect his family who he believes...
16) Another thin man
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional vivants Nick & Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart must untangle lies that have been covered up for nearly forty years. With her partner, DI Sunil Sunny Khan they narrow the list to four suspects, each with something to hide. As their deceptions are discovered, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of.
18) A dark place
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a local young boy is found dead in the woods near a sleepy backwoods town, a sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a dangerous and obsessive investigation to find the killer.
20) Dressed to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
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