Lalo Schifrin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
4) THX 1138
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime."--Container.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen , in order to rescue Lindsey, one of his trainees, who was kidnapped...
7) Tank
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sergeant-Major Zack Carey is completing his final stint of duty at a post in a small southern town. After defending a prostitute, he finds himself doing battle with the town's sheriff. When Zack's son Billy is jailed on a phoney drug charge, the Sergeant takes justice into his own hands with help from his personal World War II Sherman Tank.
8) Dirty Harry
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.
10) Enter the dragon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A master martial artist is sent by British intelligence to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whose martial arts academy also serves as a front for opium-smuggling and prostitution rings.
12) Bullitt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Departing Hamburg in high spirits, 937 Jewish Germans have been offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. The passengers are looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. Based on the tragic 1939 voyage of the SS St. Louis....
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.