Young Guns II

March 23, 2011
Young Guns 2

Call Number: DVD00608

by: James G Robinson; Geoff Murphy; John Fusco; Paul Schiff; Irby Smith; Emilio Estevez; Kiefer Sutherland; Lou Diamond Phillips; Christian Slater; William L Petersen; Alan Ruck; Balthazar Getty; Dean Semler; Bruce Green; Alan Silvestri; Jon Bon Jovi; Morgan Creek Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009].
Notes:  Originally released in 1990 (105 mins.); Nominated for one 1991 Academy Award; Special features: Featurette, theatrical trailer
Summary: Billy the Kid and his gang have escaped the hangman, and are on the run to the Mexican border and safety, but must elude pursuing sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy’s one-time friend.
OCLC #: 606626503
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS00867
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Gosford Park

Gosford Park
Call Number: DVD00879
by: Robert Altman; Bob Balaban; David Lévy; Julian Fellowes; Eileen Atkins; Michael Gambon; Richard E Grant; Kelly MacDonald; Helen Mirren; Jeremy Northam; Ryan Phillippe; Maggie Smith; Kristin Scott-Thomas; Emily Watson; Andrew Dunn; Tim Squyres; Patrick Doyle; Jenny Beavan; Stephen Altman; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, 2002.
Notes:  Originally released in 2001 (120 mins.); Nominated for seven 2002 Academy Awards; Special features: feature commentary with director Robert Altman; screenwriter commentary with Oscar winner Julian Fellowes; deleted scenes with optional commentary; the making of “Gosford Park”; keeping “Gosford Park” authentic; Q & A session with cast and filmmakers
Summary: Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
OCLC #: 50140691
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS00982
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

Call Number: DVD00836

by: Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher; Susannah Grant; Steven Soderbergh; Thomas Newman; Julia Roberts; Albert Finney; Aaron Eckhart; Marg Helgenberger; Universal Pictures (Firm); Columbia Pictures.; Jersey Films.; Universal City Studios;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, ©2000.
Notes:  Originally released in 2000 (132 mins.); Nominated for five 2001 Academy Awards; Special features include: Spotlight on location, the making of Erin Brockovich ; Erin Brockovich, a look at a real life experience ; deleted scenes with director’s comments ; theatrical trailer ; production notes ; cast & filmmakers ; DVD-ROM features;
Summary: Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin’s determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
OCLC #: 44789894
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS00075
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Gladiator

Gladiator
Call Number: DVD00872
by: Ridley Scott; David Franzoni; John Logan; William Nicholson; Douglas Wick; Branko Lustig; Russell Crowe; Joaquin Phoenix; Connie Nielsen; Oliver Reed; Derek Jacobi; Djimon Hounsou; Richard Harris; John Mathieson; Pietro Scalia; Hans Zimmer; Lisa Gerrard; Dreamworks Pictures.; Universal Pictures (Firm); DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, ©2000.
Notes:  Originally released in 2000 (155 mins.); Nominated for twelve 2001 Academy Awards; Special features: audio commentary with Ridley Scott, John Mathieson, and Pietro Scalia; from the cutting floor; the making of Gladiator; gladiator games, Roman blood sports; Hans Zimmer, scoring Gladiator
Summary: A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.
OCLC #: 45532299
Added: March 23, 2011
Also: available on VHS at VHS00098
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Cronos

March 22, 2011
Cronos
Call Number: VHS01555
by: Arthur H Gorson; Bertha Navarro; Guillermo del Toro; Federico Luppi; Ron Perlman; Claudio Brook; Margarita Isabel; October Films.; Producciones Iguana.; Vidmark Entertainment.; Madera CineVideo (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Dubbed from Spanish into English.
Publisher: [United States] : Vidmark Entertainment ; Madera, CA : Distributed by Madera Cinevideo, 1994, ©1992.
Notes: Released in 1992. Running Time Aprox 92 mins. Screener/Trailer – Not For Rent or Sale Copy.
Summary: An alchemist perfects an invention (the Cronos device) which gives him the key to eternal life. Centuries later, an elderly antique dealer finds the hellish machine and becomes obsessed with its incredible powers. The more he uses the device the younger he becomes. When a ruthless millionaire comes looking for the Cronos device, there’s hell to pay.
OCLC #: 38005710
Added: March 22, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Mr. Blandings builds his dream house

Mr. Blandings builds his dream house
Call Number: VHS01554
by: H C Potter; Norman Panama; Melvin Frank; Cary Grant; Myrna Loy; Melvyn Douglas; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA/Fox Hills Video, ©1987.
Notes: Released in 1948. Running Time Aprox 94 mins.
Summary: A successful New York advertising executive wants to escape the confines of his family’s tiny midtown apartment. So he designs his dream home in the suburbs and discovers the project isn’t as easy as it had seemed.
OCLC #: [?]
Added: March 22, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Love and anarchy

Love and Anarchy
Call Number: VHS01553
by: Lina Wertmuller; Romano Cardarelli; Imago Films.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Publisher: Burbank, CA: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Released in 1973 in Italy by Imago Films. Running Time Aprox 108 mins.
Summary: A shy country peasant goes to Rome with a plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini. An underground contact offers him a hideout in a bordello, where he falls in love with a woman who ultimately causes him to fail in his mission.
OCLC #: 20927730
Added: March 22, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Marc and Ann

Marc and Ann
Call Number: VHS01552
by: Les Blank; Susan Kell; Maureen Gosling; Chris Simon; Real Videos from New Video Group; Flower Films
Format: VHS
Language: English and Cajun French, in part with English subtitles.
Publisher: El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films ©1991
Notes: Released for television in 1991. Running Time Aprox 30 mins. Music performed by Marc Savoy, Ann Allen Savoy, Michael Doucet.
Summary: A portrait of Marc and Ann Savoy, the Cajun musical couple : Marc, accordion builder and player, Cajun cook and outspoken defender of his culture, and Ann, an adopted “Cajun” who authored Cajun music: a reflection of a people. A more personal look at one Cajun family and their appreciation for their culture in the face of encroaching American mall culture.
OCLC #: 27928137
Added: March 22, 2011
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Ricochet

Ricochet
Call Number: VHS01551
by: Denzel Washington; John Lithgow; Ice T; Russell Mulcahy; Warner Bros.; Home Box Office (Firm); Cinema Plus, L.P.; Silver Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : HBO Video, [1992]
Notes: Released as motion picture in 1991. Running Time Aprox 104 mins.
Summary: Rookie cop Nick Styles’ arrest of a ruthless psychotic killer, Blake, makes him a deadly enemy. Blake escapes from jail, faking his own death, and starts an intricate plan of revenge involving intimidation, public humiliation and murder. Nick is forced to return to the tough streets of his childhood and call on his old friend Odessa, a hustler and drug dealer, for help. Together they set a trap that pits Nick against the killer in a confrontation that will leave only one man alive and victorious.
OCLC #: 25624890
Added: March 22, 2011
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A Dry white season

A Dry White Season
Call Number: VHS01550
by: Donald Sutherland; Janet Suzman; Jürgen Prochnow; Zakes Mokae; Susan Sarandon; Marlon Brando; André Philippus Brink;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : CBS FOX Video, 1990.
Notes: Released as motion picture in 1989. Based on the book by Andre Brink.  Running Time Aprox 107 mins. Nominated for an Oscar in 1990.
Summary: The politics of apartheid are put into meaningful, human terms in this critically acclaimed film about a prominent white schoolteacher who is awakened to the reality of South African justice.
OCLC #: 21454638
Added: March 22, 2011
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Public access

Public Access
Call Number: VHS01549
by: Ron Marquette; Dina Brooks; Burt Williams; Triboro Entertainment Group.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Triboro Entertainment, ©1995.
Notes: Released as motion picture in 1993. Running Time Aprox 90 mins.
Summary: Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable TV show with the question “what’s wrong with Brewster?”, there surely can’t be any deep dark secrets in the town that are just waiting to come to the surface – or can there?
OCLC #: 34502374
Added: March 22, 2011
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The ninth configuration

The Ninth Configuration
Call Number: VHS01548
by: William Peter Blatty; Stacy Keach; Scott Wilson; Jason Miller; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, ©1996.
Notes: Released as motion picture in 1979. Based on the novel by W.P. Blatty: Twinkle, twinkle, “Killer” Kane!
Running Time Aprox 118 mins.
Summary: Colonel Hudson Kane, a psychiatrist, has to break through the madness of a group of high-ranking officers who have had unnerving and ominous breakdowns.
OCLC #: 35446143
Added: March 22, 2011
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Body count

Body Count (Alternate Title: “Below Utopia”)
Call Number: VHS01547
by: Alyssa Milano; Ice T.; Justin Theroux; Cinetel Films.; LIVE Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Live Entertainment, ©1998.
Notes: Originally released in 1997 as a motion picture. Running Time Aprox 88 mins.
Summary: The black sheep son of a wealthy art dealer has brought his girlfriend to meet his family at the estate. After his father tells Daniel he must join the family business or be cut off, a band of murderous thieves attack, leaving Daniel to eliminate the killers one by one. As the body count rises, a shocking twist is revealed.
OCLC #: 39091314
Added: March 22, 2011
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Turtle diary

March 21, 2011
Turtle Diary
Call Number: VHS01546
by: John Irvin; Harold Pinter; Glenda Jackson; Ben Kingsley; Turtle Diary, Ltd.; Vestron Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Stamford, CT : Vestron Video, ©1986.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture. Based on the novel of the same title by Russell Hoban.
Running Time Aprox 96 mins.
Summary: A children’s author and a bookstore assistant have little in common aside from their interest in the aquarium’s sea turtles, but their common desire to free the captive turtles creates a bond that gives a new outlook to their lives in this romantic comedy by Harold Pinter.
OCLC #: 14288632
Added: March 21, 2011
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The Cotton Club

The Cotton Club
Call Number: VHS01545
by: Mario Puzo; Francis Ford Coppola; William Kennedy; Richard Gere; Diane Lane; Lonette McKee; Gregory Hines; Nelson Entertainment (Firm); Orion Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, Calif. : Nelson Entertainment, ©1987.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture by Orion Pictures. Running Time Aprox 128 mins. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1985.
Summary: Francis Ford Coppala’s recreation of the passion and violence of the “jazz age” through the character of a trumpet player, Dixie Dwyer. Dwyer (Gere) was one of the few men who could walk the violent line between music and the mob. Then one night, in the Cotton Club, he discovers Vera Cicero (Lane) and suddenly his life becomes even hotter than his music.
OCLC #: 25193171
Added: March 21, 2011
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Betrayed

Betrayed
Call Number: VHS01544
by: Debra Winger; Tom Berenger; Irwin Winkler; Costa-Gavras; Joe Eszterhas; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1989.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1988 movie.  Running Time Aprox 128 mins.
Summary: Cathy Weaver, FBI agent, goes undercover to investigate Gary Simmons, a suspect in the murder of a local radio personality. As she becomes romantically interested in Simmons, Weaver uncovers an extremist group armed for murder.
OCLC #: 19450567
Added: March 21, 2011
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Assassins

Assassins
Call Number: VHS01543
by: Sylvester Stallone; Antonio Banderas; Julianne Moore; Richard Donner; Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski; Brian Helgeland; Silver Pictures.; Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions.; Evansgideon/Lazar (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm); et al
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1996.
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1995 motion picture. Running Time Aprox 133 mins.
Summary: An info-highway thief is swept into a battle between two hitmen, in a world where what counts is not who makes the first move, but who survives the last.
OCLC #: 34596020
Added: March 21, 2011
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The gingerbread man

The Gingerbread Man
Call Number: VHS01542
by: Al Hayes; Jeremy Tannenbaum; Robert Altman; Kenneth Branagh; Embeth Davidtz; Robert Downey; Daryl Hannah; Robert Duvall; Tom Berenger; Famke Janssen; Mae Whitman; Jesse James; Changwei Gu; Geraldine Peronie; Mark Isham; John Grisham; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm); Island Pictures.; Enchanter Entertainment (Firm); PolyGram Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  New York : PolyGram Video, [1998]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Based on an original story of the same title by John Grisham, Running Time Aprox 115 mins.
Summary: Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon in court. Dixon is sent to an asylum, but escapes from there and the lives of many people are in danger.
OCLC #: 39608846
Added: March 21, 2011
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Flirting with disaster

Flirting with disaster
Call Number: VHS01541
by: David O Russell; Ben Stiller; Patricia Arquette; Téa Leoni; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  [S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1997.
Notes:  Film Originally Released 1996 , Running Time Aprox 92 mins.); 
Summary: A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.OCLC #: 36635045
Added: March 21, 2011
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Oliver!

Oliver!
Call Number: VHS01540
by: Lionel Bart; Carol Reed; Ron Moody; Shani Wallis; Oliver Reed; Harry Secombe; Charles Dickens; Mark Lester; Jack Wild; Columbia Pictures.; Romulus Productions.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1998.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. Running Time Aprox 145 min. Based on the book by Lionel Bart, which in turn was based on” Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. Academy Award for Best Picture, 1968.
Summary: A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
OCLC #: 39703126 
Added: March 20, 2011
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