Terence Stamp
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Rare Stamps offers a revealing insight into the life of an actor and the making of a man. Beginning with an Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd in 1962, Terence Stamp was called "the most beautiful man alive," only to be discarded at the end of the decade with the words, "we're looking for a younger Terence Stamp." Soul searching, he traveled alone through India, staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel while studying above a public lavatory with a chain...
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In this second installment of Terence Stamp's captivating memoirs, he takes us right into the heart of the swinging '60s. From his Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd to his coming of age under the direction of the legendary Federico Fellini, the "marmalade skies" are the limit. With beautiful women and beautiful people from London to California, Stamp captures the spirit of the decade. He was the face, the man to be seen with. And then the decade...
3) Stamp Album
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In this enchanting memoir, Terence Stamp takes listeners with him on his unlikely journey from prewar London's East End, where his birth heralded the unification of two Cockney clans, to the beginnings of the stardom that would transform his life. A born storyteller, Terence looks back on his life with humor and affection for everyone from his beloved mother-whose unswerving conviction that he was special instilled in Terence a belief that his life...
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The story behind one of the world’s most loved films, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It’s about three unlikely hero(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their shimmering sequined glory and be counted. It’s the story of how a low-budget Australian film changed the course of history and loudly and proudly bought a celebration of gay culture to the world that continues to resonate twenty years on. Production company Jungleboys....
6) Billy Budd
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1797. On the high seas, the British Navy boards a merchant ship and presses a young sailor into military service. The innocent boy, who believes in the inherent goodness of all men, witnesses cruelty, deceit and betrayal aboard the naval vessel, yet his honesty and hard work earn the friendship and respect of his crewmates. But can this young man survive and maintain his innocence in a harsh, violent world, or will the evils of the British Navy destroy...
7) Blue
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He treats folks in his tiny Texas settlement with fairness, spends his time tending crops, and does all he can do to keep the peace when a hothead taunts him. But the man called Blue (Terence Stamp) wasn't always that way. He once lived the reckless, on-the-lam life of a bandit - stealing destroying, wenching and killing with the outlaw gang ruled by his adoptive father Ortega (Richard Montalban). Karl Malden joins Stamp and Montalban in this brooding,...
8) Bowfinger
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c2000.
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director stops at nothing to get him into his latest low-budget film.
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[2000]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
11) Bitter harvest
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love and free his country.
12) Big eyes
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
13) Wanted
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c2008
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
14) Billy Budd
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused of and tried for murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.
15) Legal eagles
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2003.
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a spacey "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.
16) Crooked house
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2018.
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
19) Superman
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c2009
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1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The planet Krypton is doomed and Jor-El sends his infant son to refuge on a distant planet where he develops superhuman powers that he must hide from the mortals around him.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman who's given to sudden fits of...