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1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
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On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
4) Leatherface
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A teenage leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
8) Rio bravo
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1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past -- and her eye on Chance.
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xiv, 207 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Sometimes called the American Chekhov, Horton Foote has been mapping the rich emotional terrain just beneath the plain, quiet surfaces of his small-town characters for well over half a century. This anthology brings together three of his most critically acclaimed plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta.
10) Urban cowboy
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm
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English
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By day, Bud Davis works at a Texas oil refinery but at night he trades in his hard hat for a Stetson and goes to Gilley's. There he meets Sissy, a pretty two-stepper, who believes he's a cowboy. Bud's got to prove it when a dangerous ex-con schemes to rob Gilley's and steal Sissy's heart.
11) The bad batch
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland and set in a community of cannibals.
13) Boyhood
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Criterion collection volume 839
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2 videodiscs (165 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
14) Planet terror
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2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A small town sheriff's department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields.' Despite his partner's warnings, Detective Heigh sets out to investigate the crimes.
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Criterion collection volume 96
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
17) Secondhand Lions
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
18) The lost husband
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After the death of her husband, a woman tries to overcome her grief and moves with her children into her aunt's goat farm in Texas.
19) Giant
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2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
20) A perfect world
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1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
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