Nightcrawler
March 30, 2015Special features: If it bleeds, it leads : Making Nightcrawler; feature commentary with writer/director Dan Gilroy, producer Tony Gilroy, and editor John Gilroy.
Captain Phillips
Call Number: DVD01223
Director/Distributor: by Paul Greengrass; Billy Ray; Scott Rudin; Dana Brunetti; Michael De Luca; Gregory Goodman; Eli Bush; Kevin Spacey; Tom Hanks; Barkhad Abdi; Barkhad Abdirahman; Faysal Ahmed; Mahat M Ali; Michael Chernus; Corey Johnson; Max Martini; Chris Mulkey; Yul Vazquez; David Warshofsky; Catherine Keener; Barry Ackroyd; Paul Kirby; Christopher Rouse; Henry Jackman; Mark Bridges, (Costume designer); Richard Phillips; Stephan Talty; Columbia Pictures,; Trigger Street Productions,; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2014] ©2013
Notes: Based upon the book “A captain’s duty: Somali pirates, Navy Seals, and dangerous days at sea” by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Special features: Commentary with director Paul Greengrass; English commentary subtitles; Capturing Captain Phillips (in-depth behind-the-scenes featurettes on making the acclaimed film); Previews.
Summary: The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
OCLC #: 879330139
Added: 5/13/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
50 Movies: The Sensational Sixties
Call Number: DVD01216
Director/Distributor: by Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.
Notes: Booklet lists movie title contained on each disc.
Films:
Disc 1: Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
High School Big Shot (aka: Date Bait) (1960)
Jackals (1967)
Disc 2: Constantine and the Cross (1962)
Wild Ride (1960)
When the Girls Take Over (1962)
Avenger (aka: Last Glory of Troy) (1962)
Disc 3: Battle of El Alamen (1960)
Cape Town Affair (1967)
Manster (1962)
She Beast (1966)
Disc 4: Five Minutes to Live (aka: Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
Esther and the King (1960)
Sadist (1963)
Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Disc 5: They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Deadly Companions (1961)
Dangerous Charter (1962)
Desert Commandos (1967)
Disc 6: Shoot out at Big Sag (1962)
Alexander the Great (1968)
Sandy the Seal (1969)
Fat Spy (1965)
Magic Sword (1962)
Disc 7: Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
Wake Me When the War is Over (1969)
From Hell to Borneo (1967)
Guerillas in Pink Lace (1964)
Disc 8: Poppy is also a Flower (1966)
Sound of Horror (1964)
White Comanche (1968)
High School Caesar (1960)
Disc 9: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Magic Serpent (1966)
David and Goliath (1960)
Nasty Rabbit (1963)
Disc 10: Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Twisted Nerve (1969)
Criminal Affair (1968)
Disc 11: Herod the Great (1960)
Reluctant Saint (1962)
Two women (1960)
Head of the Family (1967)
Disc 12: Dungeon of Harrow (1962)
Devil’s Partner (1961)
Choppers (1961)
Night Tide (1961)
Lightning Bolt (1966)
OCLC #: 817572108
Added: 5/13/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
Zero Dark Thirty
Call Number: DVD01212
Director/Distributor: by Kathryn Bigelow; Mark Boal; Megan Ellison; Greg Shapiro; Colin Wilson; Theodore Schipper; Jessica Chastain; Jason Clarke; Joel Edgerton; Jennifer Ehle; Mark Strong; Kyle Chandler; Édgar Ramírez; James Gandolfini; Chris Pratt; Callan Mulvey; Fares Fares; Reda Kateb; Harold Perrineau; Stephen Dillane; Nash Edgerton; Mike Colter; Frank Grillo; Greig Fraser; Jeremy Hindle; Dylan Tichenor; William Goldenberg; George Little; Alexandre Desplat; Columbia Pictures,; Annapurna Productions,; First Light Films,; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2013.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture and released in 2012.
Special Features: No Small Feat – Making Zero Dark Thirty; The Compund – Tour the film’s rebuilt compound; Geared Up – Watch the cast train with authentic SEAL gear; Targeting Jessica Chastain – A look at the role of Maya
Summary: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011.
OCLC #: 827611653
Added: 5/13/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
Vinyan
Call Number: DVD01196
Director/Distributor: by Emmanuelle Béart; Rufus Sewell; Petch Osathanugrah; Julie Dreyfus; Ampon Pankratok; Terawat Mulvilai; Joey Boy; Josse De Pauw; Borhan Du Welz; Michael Gentile; Fabrice Du Welz; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); FilmFour (Firm); Backup Films.; Wild Bunch (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ©2009.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Bonus feature: “Vinyan: the making of” featurette.
Summary: A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami – their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
OCLC #: 317504398
Added: 5/13/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
DVD
Casino Royale: DVD00099, DVD00713
Dr. No: DVD00802
Skyfall: DVD01151
The Spy Who Loved Me: DVD01161
VHS
Licence to Kill VHS01519
Live and Let Die VHS01546
The Living Daylights VHS01536
The Man with the Golden Gun VHS01582
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service VHS01541
Tomorrow Never Dies VHS01263
The World is Not Enough VHS01522
You Only Live Twice VHS01264
Michael Clayton
Call Number: DVD01038
Director/Distributor: by Jennifer Fox; Tony Gilroy; George Clooney; Tom Wilkinson; Tilda Swinton; Sydney Pollack; Michael O’Keefe; Samuels Media (Firm); Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm); Mirage Enterprises.; Section Eight Ltd.; Warner Home Video (Firm); et al
Format: DVD | Fullscreen
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2008]
Notes: Special Features: Additional Scenes, Commentary by Writer/Director Tony Gilroy and Editor John Gilroy
Summary: A law firm brings in its “fixer” to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
OCLC #: 185062608
Added: 5/9/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
Man on Fire
Call Number: DVD01026
Director/Distributor: by Tony Scott; Brian Helgeland; Arnon Milchan; Lucas Foster; Denzel Washington; Dakota Fanning; Christopher Walken; Giancarlo Giannini; Radha Mitchell; Marc Anthony; Rachel Ticotin; Mickey Rourke; Paul Cameron; Harry Gregson-Williams; A J Quinnell; Fox 2000 Pictures.; Regency Enterprises.; New Regency (Firm); Scott Free Productions.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Copyright Collection (Library of Congress);
Format: DVD | Widescreen
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2004]
Notes: Includes audio commentaries; Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.
Based on the novel by A.J. Quinnell.
Summary: In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.
OCLC #: 55696524
Added: 5/9/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
The Interpreter
Call Number: DVD00946
Director/Distributor: by Sydney Pollack; Nicole Kidman; Sean Penn; Catherine Keener; Jesper Christensen; Yvan Attal; Darius Khondji; James Newton Howard; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm); Working Title Films.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2005.
Notes: Special features: alternate ending; deleted scenes; “Sydney Pollack at work: from concept to cutting room”; “Interpreting pan & scan vs. widescreen”; “The ultimate movie set: the United Nations”; “A day in the life of real interpreters.”
Summary: Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
OCLC #: 60696544
Added: 5/8/14
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Gravity
Call Number: DVD00881
Director/Distributor: by Alfonso Cuarón; Jonás Cuarón; David Heyman; Sandra Bullock; George Clooney; Warner Bros. Pictures,; Esperanto Films (Firm),; Heyday Films,; Warner Home Video (Firm),;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [©2014] ©2013
Notes: DVD release of the 2013 motion picture.
Not all language options are indicated on container.
Special features: Collision point : The Race to Clean Up Space; Aningaaq, a short film by Jonás Cuarón.
Summary: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit.
OCLC #: 870999512
Added: 5/8/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Call Number: DVD00871
Director/Distributor: by David Fincher; Scott Rudin; Steven Zaillian; Mikael Wallen; Anni Faurbye Fernandez; Ole Søndberg; Søren Stærmose; Ceán Chaffin; Jeff Cronenweth; Kirk Baxter; Angus Wall; Trent Reznor; Atticus Ross; Trish Summerville; Ren Klyce; Donald Graham Burt; Daniel Craig; Rooney Mara; Christopher Plummer; Stellan Skarsgård; Steven Berkoff; Robin Wright; Yorick van Wageningen; Joely Richardson; Geraldine James; Goran Visnjic; Donald Sumpter; Ülf Friberg; Stieg Larsson; Columbia Pictures.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Yellow Bird (Firm); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012]
Notes: DVD is designed to look like a bootleg copy, the title looking hand-scrawled with a felt-tip pen, and “make.believe DVD-R” printed on the disc.
Based on the book by Stieg Larsson.
American remake originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
Special features: commentary by director David Fincher.
Summary: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
OCLC #: 776713480
Added: 5/8/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
50 Movies – The Fabulous Forties
Call Number: DVD00841
Director/Distributor: by Yul Brynner; Scott Brady; Richard Rober; Laslo Benedek; Fred Astaire; Paulette Goddard; Artie Shaw; H C Potter; Robert Cummings; Richard Basehart; Arlene Dahl; Anthony Mann; Roland Young; Joan Blondell; Billie Burke; Roy Del Ruth; Anne Baxter; Ralph Bellamy; Ruth Warrick; John Brahm; Lloyd Bridges; Barbara Payton; John Hoyt; Richard Fleischer; Edward G Robinson; Judith Anderson; Allene Roberts; Delmer Daves; Mary Beth Hughes; Hugh Beaumont; Edmund MacDonald; Sam Newfield; Sabu; Joseph Calleia; John Qualen; Zoltan Korda; Rudyard Kipling; Ralph Byrd; Lyle Latell; Jack Lambert; John Rawlins; Hedy Lamarr; George Sanders; Louis Hayward; Edgar G Ulmer; Edmond O’Brien; Pamela Britton; Luther Adler; Rudolph Maté; Jack Haley; Ann Savage; Barton MacLane; Frank McDonald; Betty Hutton; Barry Fitzgerald; Don Defore; Hal Walker; Robert Donat; Valerie Hobson; Walter Rilla; Harold S Bucquet; Lew Ayres; Lionel Barrymore; Laraine Day; Randolph Scott; Alan Curtis; Noah Beery; Ray Enright; Robert Cummings; Michèle Morgan; Peter Lorre; Arthur Ripley; George Raft; Ava Gardner; Victor McLaglen; Leonide Moguy; Gary Cooper; Barbara Stanwyck; Walter Brennan; Frank Capra; Vincent Price; Reed Hadley; Lynn Bari; Alfred L Werker; Cameron Mitchell; Audrey Long; Fuzzy Knight; Lew Landers; Johnny Downs; Gale Storm; Mantan Moreland; Jean Yarbrough; Stanley Holloway; Betty Warren; Margaret Rutherford; Henry Cornelius; Buster Crabbe; Charles B Middleton; Sheila Darcy; Harry Fraser; David Niven; Stanley Holloway; James Donald; Carol Reed; Gene Tierney; Bruce Cabot; George Sanders; Henry Hathaway; Susan Hayward; Michael O’Shea; Ralph Morgan; Alfred Santell; Jeff York; Martha O’Driscoll; Buster Keaton; Albert Rogell; Al Capp; Martha Scott; William Gargan; Edmund Gwenn; Tay Garnett; E G Morrison; John Hoy; Ray Reagan; Leopold Lindtberg; George Raft; Marie Windsor; Eduard Franz; Robert Florey; Leo B Gorcey; Bobby Jordan; Frankie Burke; Joseph H Lewis; Ronald Reagan; George Murphy; Joan Leslie; Michael Curtiz; Merle Oberon; Melvyn Douglas; Burgess Meredith; Ernst Lubitsch; Hedy Lamarr; Dennis O’Keefe; John Loder; Robert Stevenson; Cary Grant; Irene Dunne; Edgar Buchanan; George Stevens; Bela Lugosi; Suzanne Kaaren; Dave O’Brien; Jean Yarbrough; William Powell; Carole Lombard; Alice Brady; Gregory La Cava; Susan Hayward; Lee Bowman; Eddie Albert; Stuart Heisler; Dana Andrews; Anne Baxter; Walter Huston; Lewis Milestone; Barbara Stanwyck; Kirk Douglas; Van Heflin; Lewis Milestone; Harold Lloyd; Rudy Vallée; Edgar Kennedy; Preston Sturges; Cary Grant; Rosalind Russell; Ralph Bellamy; Howard Hawks; Mickey Rooney; Bonita Granville; Lewis Stone; Willis Goldbeck; Freddie Bartholomew; James Lydon; Edward Everett Horton; Ralph F Murphy; Patsy Kelly; ZaSu Pitts; Dennis O’Keefe; Gordon Douglas; James Stewart; Paulette Goddard; Art Carney; George Marshall; Susan Hayward; Robert Preston; Pedro Armendáriz; Stuart Heisler; Barbara Stanwyck; Michael O’Shea; Iris Adrian; William A Wellman; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [United States] : Mill Creek Entertainment, 2012.
Notes: 12-discs
Summaries
Disc 1:
Port of New York: A drug smuggler runs his operation through a New York yacht club, spreading his criminal operation through the use of ocean liners and their staff, to distribute the narcotics. A pair of undercover agents is assigned to track down the source of the narcotics and bring down the ring.
Second Chorus: Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor have spent seven years together in a college band. These two friendly but rival musicians aspire to join the famous Artie Shaw Orchestra.
The Black Book: After the French Revolution, the new republic government is formed and an operative of this new government is sent undercover to infiltrate the inner circle of Robespierre.The agent pretends to be a rogue, like Robespierre, with the intention of finding a certain black book containing the names of friends and foes alike of the French scoundrel.
Topper Returns: Topper encounters a sarcastic ghost who insists that our intrepid hero help her find her murderer.
Disc 2:
Guest in the House: A young woman, who is emotionally unstable, stays at the home of her physician where she ends up meeting his brother. The woman becomes obsessed with the man, in spite of the fact that he is happily married, and decides to do everything in her power to win him over and prove her love.
Trapped: A batch of counterfeit twenty dollar bills begin showing up that appear to be the work of Tris Stewart, a counterfeiter already behind bars. Hoping to track down the location of Stewart’s plates and the person using them, a prison break is arranged for Stewart with federal agents keeping an eye on his every move.
Red House: Pete Morgan is an aging farmer, who harbors some dark secrets, living with his sister and his adopted daughter. When the daughter asks her friend to help out with the chores, since Morgan cannot move as well anymore on his wooden leg, the young man begins taking a shortcut through the woods to the farm, passing a red house that Morgan forbids anyone to near.
The Lady Confesses: Just prior to their wedding, a groom and his bride-to-be discover that his first wife, who was missing and presumed dead, has turned up alive and back in town. Shortly after her sudden re-appearance, the wife is found dead and the husband is accused of her murder.
Disc 3:
Jungle Book: Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s story about Mowgli, a boy raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves after being lost there as an infant.
Dick Tracy’s Dilemma: Dick Tracy is called in to investigate a fur heist. Tracy thinks it may be a possible insurance swindle but soon finds out it is much more when his police informant turns up murdered.
The Strange Woman: A young woman who has lived with an abusive drunkard father decides that men are to be used for her benefit. She falls under the watchful eye of an older lumber magnate and accepts his marriage proposal.
D.O.A.: An accountant is given a poison and informed that he has a short time to live. He decides to use his remaining time to track down the source of the poison, find out who gave it to him and what the reason was for it.
Disc 4:
Treasure of Fear (aka: Scared stiff): On his latest assignment, a bumbling chess reporter, takes the wrong bus and ends up getting involved in some murders at a tavern run by a pair of strange brothers.
The Stork Club: After rescuing a wealthy elderly man from drowning, a young hat check girl at the Stork Club, is provided with a bank account and an apartment. Her boyfriend returns home from overseas and is suspicious of her new found wealth.
The Adventures of Tartu: A British soldier is recruited to infiltrate a German-run chemical factory inside Czechoslovakia and work with the local underground to sabotage it.
Dr. Kildare’s Strange Case: Dr. Kildare finds that he has a rival for his girlfriends attention. The rival, a brain surgeon, has several patients die immediately after surgery. Dr. Kildare must put aside his animosity to help diagnose the real reason for the deaths.
Disc 5:
Gung Ho!: Responsible for organizing a battalion to raid the Japanese-held Makim Island, Colonel Thorwald recruits his volunteers from the less-desirable prospects such as barroom brawlers, misfits and borderline psychos. Under his training and leadership, the battalion is forged into a tough fighting unit ready for the fierce battle.
The Chase: An unemployed veteran returns a wallet and gets an unexpected job as the chauffeur to a tough mobster.
Whistle Stop: A woman returns to her small home town from Chicago, where she has made a success of herself.
Meet John Doe: A soon-to-be laid-off female newspaper report writes a final column, using a phony letter about a disgruntled man who plans to jump off of City Hall on Christmas Eve, as a protest of the mistreatment of the common people in society.
Disc 6:
Shock: A woman witnesses a psychiatrist murder his wife in a fit of rage. The woman is unsuccessful in convincing her husband that she witnessed the murder and is committed to a sanitarium under the care of the doctor who committed the murder.
The Adventures of Gallant Bess: A rodeo rider and ranch hand captures a magnificent wild horse, which he tames and trains to use for competitions. An accident during a competition injures the rider forcing him to recover from his injuries with the aide of his doctor’s daughter.
Freckles Comes Home: college student Freckles returns home from college and finds his girlfriend falling in love with a con artist, and the bank being cased by a gangster.
Passport to Pimlico: During WWII in Pimlico, a tiny overlooked section of London, an unexploded bomb is accidentally set off, revealing a hidden cave full of treasure. A professor discover a charter that says Pimlico is actually a part of the Burgundy section of France. The people of Pimlico try to set up their own country, while the British government tries to pacify the situation.
Drums of Africa: An African expedition searching for the City of the Dead face many perils along the way.
Disc 7:
The Immortal Battalion: A battalion of raw recruits face basic training and their differences in this wartime film. As the recruits work hard to get past their insecurities and inexperience, they are faced with completing their training and prepare for combat duty in North Africa.
Sundown: In Africa during the Second World War, British troops are battling Nazis for control of the continent. In British-held territory, a commander has few sympathies for the native Arab population and even less for a woman he suspects is a Nazi collaborator.
Jack London: In this exciting biographical adventure, we experience the incredible life of legendary author, adventurer and journalist Jack London. From ocena adventures to excapades in the Kondike, his amazing life is thrillingly depicted.
Li’l Abner: Andy Capp’s famous comic strip about the citizens of Dogpatch comes to the screen. This comedy centers upon the annual Sadie Hawkins Day celebration, which gives the unmarried females in town an opportunity to chase down and catch a husband from the local bachelors.
Disc 8:
Cheers for Miss Bishop: A teacher dedicates her life to teaching her students at the sacrifice of her personal life. This story shows Miss Bishop through the stages of her career, from her first job to her retirement, with a realization that her life was not wasted just being a teacher.
The Last Chance: Three allied soldiers escape an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and set out to make it to neutral Switzerland for freedom and a possible return to the Allies.
Outpost in Morocco: The commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost is excorting the Emir’s daughter to the palace and arrives to discover rebellion being plotted by some of the Emir’s men.
Boys of the City: Juvenile delinquents, The East end Kids, head out to the country for some rest, and to avoid further trouble in the old neighborhood, the boys find themselves in unfamiliar territory.
Disc 9:
This is the Army: A musical is put on for the servicemen fighting in World War I and a soldier who performed int he show heads off to war, he is wounded and forced to give up his career as a performer and become a producer. When World War II breaks out, the cast of the original musical decide to stage a new version for the servicemen heading off to fight.
That Uncertain Feeling: After developing a case of hiccups, a married woman visits a psychiatrist to help her with the problem. The psychiatrist believes the hiccups are caused by marital problems which are believed to be a result of the husband’s inattentiveness.
Dishonored Lady: The fashion editor of a successful magazine is leading a stressful life due to her hard working days and long nights of partying. Consulting a psychiatrist about her problem, she is told to simplify her life to take the stress away, so she quits her job, moves to a Greenwich Village Apartment and takes up painting again.
Penny Serenade: While packing to leave her husband, a woman plays some records and upon hearing some songs, reminisces about their life together.
Disc 10:
The Devil Bat: A chemist feels betrayed by the company owners who have profited from his discoveries. Seeking revenge upon the men, the chemist has bred a large vicious bat that will attack anyone wearing the special cologne he’s manufactured. After a series of deaths due to the bat, a reporter discovers the truth behind the attacks and sets out to stop the madman.
My Man Godfrey: Irene Bullock is a young heiress from a family of idly rich eccentrics who finds herself at the city dump due to a scavenger hunt. Once there she meets Godfrey, a hobo who resides at the dump along with his fellow derelicts. Inspired by her meeting with Godfrey, Bullock brings him home and installs him as the family’s new butler.
Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman: A young woman, with an aspiring career as a nightclub singer, gives it all up when she marries a songwriter and budding radio star. With her support fully behind her husband, he finally makes it big and she is able to live a life of idle luxury.
The North Star: A Ukranian farming collective, is home to a group of hard-working people whose lives are shattered by the invasion of the German army during World War II.
Disc 11:
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: A tale of intrigue involving childhood friends and a mysterious death that happened years before.
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock: Twenty years after his big triumph on the college football field, Harold Diddlebock is struggling in the same job he received twenty years before.
His Girl Friday: Hildy Johnson, a star newspaper reporter still working for her ex-husband Walter at a major Chicago newspaper.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: Andy Hardy returns home from the service to his loving family with the intention of going to college, where he meets and falls in love with co-ed Kay Wilson.
Disc 12:
The Town Went Wild: Two feuding neighbors are shocked to find their respective son and daughter have fallen in love and they wish to get married.
Broadway Limited: In hopes to gain some publicity, a starlet and her producer work on a stunt to have the starlet appear to have adopted a baby. Due to a mix-up, the authorities believe that the infant is kidnapped as the starlet is transporting the baby on the Chicago-to-Manhattan express.
Pot O’Gold: When Jimmy’s music store fails, he goes to work for his uncle, who owns a food factory. Before he arriving at the factory he befriends a family who turn out to be his uncle’s enemies. Jimmy sets about reconciling his new friends and his uncle.
Tulsa: A highly ambitious cattle rancher’s daughter who is out to stop the oil companies from invading the sleepy Oklahoma town of Tulsa ends up building her own oil empire.
Lady of Burlesque: A burlesque performer entertaining at a Broadway theater in the 1930’s is trying to avoid the advances of a comedian and the bitter rivalry she has developed with some of the other dances. When two murders occur at the show house that make her look like the guilty person she must team up with the comedian to find the real murderer.
OCLC #: Disc 1 – 842846537; Disc 2 – 842850513; Disc 3 – 842850511; Disc 4 – 842846539; Disc 5 – 842850072; Disc 6 – 842846536; Disc 7 –842850065; Disc 8 – 842850510; Disc 9 – 842846541; Disc 10 – 842850506; Disc 11 – 842850512; Disc 12 – 842846535
Added: 5/6/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
3-Pack Suspense: Eye of the Needle/Gorky Park/Company Business
Call Number: DVD00839
Director/Distributor: by William Hurt; Lee Marvin; Brian Dennehy; Ian Bannen; Joanna Pacula; Donald Sutherland; Kate Nelligan; Christopher Cazenove; James Horner; Dennis Potter; Gene Kirkwood; Howard W Koch; Michael Apted; Stanley Mann; Miklós Rózsa; Stephen Friedman; Richard Marquand; Martin Cruz Smith; Ken Follett; Gene Hackman; Mikhail Baryshnikov; Nicholas Meyer; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co.; TGG Direct (Firm); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. : TGG Direct (distributor), ©2010.
Notes:
Eye of the Needle based on the novel by Ken Follett. Eye of the Needle originally produced as a motion picture in 1981.
Gorky Park originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.Gorky Park based on the novel by Martin Cruz Smith.
Company Business originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Summary:
Eye of the Needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow’s Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Company Business: Two spies–one American, one Soviet–form an unlikely alliance when the CIA and KGB unite to assassinate them.
OCLC #: 806225004
Added: 5/6/14
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Cape Fear
Call number: DVD00709
Director/Distributor: by Martin Scorsese; Barbara De Fina; Wesley Strick; Robert De Niro; Nick Nolte; Jessica Lange; Juliette Lewis; Bernard Herrmann; Elmer Bernstein; James R Webb; John D MacDonald; Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Cappa Films.; Tribeca Productions.; Universal Pictures (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, [2001]
Summary: Fourteen years after being imprisoned, psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden.
Notes: Based on a screenplay by James R. Webb and “The Executioners,” a novel by John D. MacDonald.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1991.
Special features include “The making of Cape Fear” featurette, deleted scenes, behind the scenes of the fourth of July parade, houseboat set, photograph montage, and matte paintings.
OCLC #: 48079398
Added: 3/21/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
Alfred Hitchcok: Blackmail & Easy Virtue
Call number: DVD00685
Director/Distributor: by Alfred Hitchcock; John Maxwell; Benn W Levy; Anny Ondra; John Longden; C M Woolf; Michael Balcon; Eliot Stannard; Isabel Jeans; Franklin Dyall; Charles Bennett; Noel Coward; British International Pictures.; Wardour Films.; Gainsborough Studios.; Delta Entertainment Corporation.; Laserlight DVD (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Delta Entertainment Corps
Summary: [Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer’s identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.
[Easy virtue] After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past
Notes: Blackmail originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. Easy virtue originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1927.
Blackmail based on the play by Charles Bennett; Easy virtue based on the play by Noel Coward.
Includes an introduction by Tony Curtis and original theatrical trailer from Rear window.
OCLC #: 42887733
Added: 3/21/14
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City Hall
Call Number: DVD00731
Director/Distributor: Harold Becker
Format: DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English : Standard and widescreen versions
Language: In English or dubbed French with optional English or French subtitles; Closed-captioned.
Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Videodisc release of a 1996 motion picture.
Summary: The death of an innocent child helps uncover a scandal that links the mob directly to the Mayor’s office.
OCLC #: 44588198
Added: 9/25/2013
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Title: 36 Hours
Call Number: DVD00617
Director/Distributor: George Seaton
Format: DVD video : English
Language: In English with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Based on the short story: Beware of the dog / Roald Dahl; and, a story by Carl H. Hittleman and Luis H. Vance.
Special features: theatrical trailers for 36 hours, Up periscope and The Americanization of Emily.
Summary: The clock is ticking for the Nazis trying to dupe Jefferson Pike (James Garner) into giving up war secrets. They pose as U.S. physicians to convince the supposedly amnesiac Pike to unlock his memory by recalling his last assignment: planning for D-Day.
OCLC #: 123377986
Added: 9/25/2013
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Bad Day at Black Rock
Call number: VHS01742
Director/Distributor: Spencer Tracy; Robert Ryan; Anne Francis; Dean Jagger; Walter Brennan; Lee Marvin; John Ericson; Ernest Borgnine; John Sturges; Dore Schary; Howard Breslin
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video, ©1988.
Notes: Released: 1955
Runtime: 81 Mins.
Summary: A one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny desert town, the locals possessing a dark past they want to keep secret, by any means necessary.
OCLC #: 18781767
Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter
Also availiable on DVD: DVD00056
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
The Asphalt Jungle
Call number: VHS 01740
Director/Distributor: John Huston; Ben Maddow; Sterling Hayden; Louis Calhern; James Whitmore; Sam Jaffe; Marilyn Monroe; Jean Hagen; W R Burnett; Loew’s Incorporated.; Turner Entertainment Co.
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video, ©1992.
Notes: Released: 1950
Runtime: 112 Mins.
Summary: A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.
OCLC #: 28062010
Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
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