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41) The hippopotamus
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the story of a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. The disgruntled, cantankerous, semi-famous poet Ted Wallace is hired to investigate strange doings at Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall.
44) Separate tables
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
45) Tom Horn
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When he rode into Wyoming in 1900, Tom Horn was already a legend. He was as successful at wiping out rustlers as he had been at everything else he'd tried. But the West was changing, and a free spirit like Horn was a liability to the men who had hired him. Based on the true story, Tom Horn presents a harsher, less romantic vision of the West, but one that remains true to the frontier's raging spirit.
47) The little hours
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
50) The ring
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
Series
Criterion collection volume 747
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Description
Follows the exploits of two pansexual young men-the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus-as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess.
52) The 39 steps
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
53) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (329 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police inspector Carl Morck and his assistant Assad investigate a cold case about a disappeared woman; when the murder of young twins implicates a group of students as the killers, Carl Morck investigates; Department Q must catch a serial killer before time runs out.
55) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
56) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel. Director 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah's final film.
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