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Film Movement volume 2, film 8
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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After a violent marital argument resulting in Antoine's death, Lucy discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit.
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English
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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,...
25) Bosstown
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English
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""This book is a caffeine and poker fueled adrenaline rush that I could not put down until the last twisting, violent hand had played out." --Sarah Silverman, stand-up comedian, actress, producer, and writer Zesty Meyers is Boston's fastest bike messenger--caffeine fueled, wise-cracking and reckless--accustomed to hurtling through Boston's kamikaze streets at breakneck speed, always just a bumper or car door away from disaster. Will Meyers is Zesty's...
26) High Sierra
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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.
27) The big combo
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Police Lt. Diamond is told to stop his investigation of suspected Mob boss Mr. Brown as it is costing the department too much money with no hard evidence. Diamond turns to Mr. Brown's girlfriend to get the evidence he needs.
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261 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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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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English
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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...
31) Speakeasy
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English
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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...
32) The seventh fire
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a Native American gang leader is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved Ojibwe community.
33) Vincent n Roxxy
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When loner Vincent saves Roxxy from a violent assailant, they unexpectedly fall in love. But then a sadistic gangster from their past shows up, and their brief solace is shattered.
34) Winterland
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468 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When two men from the same family die on the same night, Gina Rafferty is filled with grief and a growing anger that drives her to find the truth behind these deaths.
36) The Kitchen
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1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
37) Passion play
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The last thing washed up jazz musician, Nate Pool, wanted to do was betray sinister gangster, Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction.
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376 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who owns the mall hires Junior to look into the shoplifting...
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Criterion collection volume 1006
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1 videodisc (71 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a bootleggers hideout, Temple is subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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