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In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a bookstore, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback and Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain.
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During the D Day invasion, seven men find themselves trapped in an underground German blockhouse after heavy shelling seals it. Although the place is well stocked with candles, food and wine, they are forced to wait 6 years for rescuers. Everyone has differing coping skills in dealing with their virtual incarceration and miraculously, two men survived. Based on a frighteningly true story.
4) Mr. Topaze
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Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Peter Sellers was one of the most gifted British comic actors of his time, perfectly moving from costume to costume and accent to accent in a series of films that ranged from brilliant to awful. Despite his brilliance as an actor, Sellers led a deeply disturbing personal life. The actor is best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. Despite his Hollywood success, Peter Sellers' comic virtuosity belied a troubled private life....
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
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1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When the priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again, the inimitable Inspector Jacques Clouseau is saved from an unwilling early retirement and sent off to the country of Lugash to investigate.
11) Being there
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
12) Lolita
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1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
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1 videodisc (approximately 71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Alice, an enigmatic young girl, wanders through a Victorian landscape populated by the most bizarre and astonishing characters. Alice gently questions each one in turn, subtly mocking their middle-class English values.
14) The party
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Hollywood bigwig is giving a party to which every climber in town wants to be invited. By mistake, an accident-prone Indian actor is invited, and the result is hilarious slapstick and a wicked and shrewd insider's view of Tinseltown.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The bumbling Inspector Clouseau's attempt to prove the innocence of a voluptuous French maid, the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, leads him to a nudist colony and the Parisian mansion of a French millionaire.
19) The ladykillers
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their "digs," proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her ... a task they find easier said than done.
20) The Pink panther
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspector Clouseau pursues a jewel thief, who, in turn, is romantically pursuing Clouseau's wife.
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