Lauren Bacall
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1029 p. (large print) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple. But when Bogart died of cancer in 1957, Bacall and their children had to take everything he had taught them and grow up fast. In a...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Capote's greatest masterpiece, an epic novel of New York City's glittering jet-set society, following his smashing success with Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Instead, it sparked his downfall. Through access to never-before-heard audio archives and interviews with Capote's friends and enemies, including Dick Cavett, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer and André Leon Talley, this documentary reveals the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling young actress, a fledgling director, and an ambitious playwright become embroiled in an emotional love triangle in 1930s England as they strive for recognition, fame, and fortune in a world on the brink of World War II.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a contract, the terms of which Calcifer cannot reveal. They promise...
8) Blood Alley
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An easy-going, unpolished sportswriter and a sophisticated clothing designer meet, fall in love and marry while both are visiting California. When they return to their homes in New York, they decide to live in her plush apartment, and their differences soon emerge.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When a murder occurs aboard the Orient Express, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
11) The shootist
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
12) Dark passage
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
13) Misery
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (435 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding...
16) Key Largo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.