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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
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A man (Edward G. Robinson) & his sister (Judith Anderson) are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter (Allene Roberts), concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods. A classic suspense thriller with a haunting score by the famed composer Miklos Rozsa...The all-star cast also includes Rory Calhoun, Julie London, & Lon McCallister.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging bachelor in a small New England town, Harry Quincey finds love when a New York fashion designer visits the fabric mill where Harry works. But Harry's long-overdue chance at happiness is thwarted by his neurotic sister Lettie, who uses her physical ailments as a means of controlling her kind-hearted brother. When Harry proves himself serious about leaving the family home, Lettie goes to shocking extremes to keep him under her thumb.
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John Garfield is Johnny, a tough NYC boxer who becomes champ. He attends a drunken party where a reporter is murdered. The killer himself dies in a flaming auto wreck, but not before he successfully shifts the blame to Johnny. He flees the city & hides out at a boy's camp out west, populated by The Dead End Kids. All seems ok until a detective (Claude Rains) who was on the murder case, happens by.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe (Nancy Olson), spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the Station's police. Once at Union Station she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun (William Holden), head of the station's police squad and they find out that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter and are seeking a $100,000 ransom....
Pub. Date
[2000]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 680 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr., a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
11) Zen noir
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A unique and original blend of Buddhist philosophy, vaudevillian comedy and surrealist art film, Zen Noir follows a nameless detective as he investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple. But his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen, and he finds himself drawn into a deeper, stranger, more personal mystery...the mystery of death itself.
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Somebody killed Vicky Lynn and the police are looking at only one suspect, Promoter Frankie Christopher. Frankie believes Inspector Ed Cornell is trying to pin him for the murder of Vicky. Did he really kill her, or does he know who did?
13) The suspect
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Philip Marshall is a kind, henpecked accountant who strikes up a friendship with Mary Gray, a young unemployed stenographer who had approached him for work. He gradually finds himself falling in love with her, but keeps the relationship platonic. With his wife suspecting him of having an affair, Philip asks her for a divorce, but she refuses and threatens him with exposure and scandal. When his wife is found dead of an apparent accident, Inspector...
15) Double indemnity
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
16) Criss cross
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue.
17) Scarlet Street
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The quintessential Film Noir - all the elements of corruption, sex, winners and losers. Edward G Robinson plays an amateur painter who protects a young woman. He is in a mid-life crisis and befriends a younger woman and convinces her he has a fortune. Her boyfriend convinces her to try and con him out of the money with disastrous results.
18) Suddenly
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Proceeding a presidential visit, a trio of impersonating FBI agents enter a home where John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as an assassin. He kidnaps the family in order to use their house as his vantage point in his plot to kill the president.
19) Pulp fiction
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
20) The wrong man
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
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