Columbia Pictures Corporation
1) The big heat
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
5) The wild one
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Johnny is the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hellbent for destruction until he falls for Kathie, a "good girl" whose father happens to be a cop.
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
8) King Rat
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
10) Picnic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Longfellow Deeds (Cooper), a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his uncle and wants to give it away to needy people. Petty moochers, greedy relatives, conniving lawyers and big executives, who all want a piece of the pie, attempt to have Deeds declared incompetent.
12) Born yesterday
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A corrupt millionaire junk dealer, embarrassed by his girlfriend's lack of social sophistication, arranges to have her trained in a crash course in "culture." He is surprised and outraged when after becoming aware of her role as pawn in his crooked business deals, she refuses to cooperate.
13) Cat Ballou
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
16) The Caine mutiny
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage...
17) 3:10 to Yuma
Series
Criterion collection volume 657
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
In this beautifully shot and acted, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford, to the train that will take him to prison. This apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man's particular brand of honor.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
20) Big fish
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.