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Call Number: DVD01185

by: Rod Taylor; Alan Young; Yvette Mimieux; Sebastian Cabot; Tom Helmore; George Pal; David Duncan; H G Wells; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Nominated for an Oscar in 1961. Special features include behind the scenes documentary, “Time Machine: The Journey back”  hosted by Rod Taylor and featuring Alan Young and Whit Bissell, music only audio track. Running time approx. (103 min.)

Summary: On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine’s purpose. George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life. Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia.

OCLC #: 697200693

Call Number: DVD00951

by: Clint Eastwood; Dustin Lance Black; Brian Grazer; Robert Lorenz; Leonardo DiCaprio; Naomi Watts; Judi Dench; Armie Hammer; Josh Lucas; Dermot Mulroney; Jeffrey Donovan; Denis P O’Hare; Stephen Root; Zach Grenier; Damon Herriman; Lea Thompson; Ken Howard; Josh Hamilton; Jessica Hecht; Geoff Pierson; Michael O’Neill; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Imagine Entertainment (Firm); Malpaso (Company); Warner Bros. Entertainment.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2012]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2011. Special feature: Featurette “J. Edgar: A complicated man” (13 min.); Nominated for a Golden Globe in 2012. Running time approx. (137 min.)

Summary: J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

OCLC #: 777386709

Call Number: DVD01083

by: Sydney Pollack; Kurt Luedtke; Robert Redford; Meryl Streep; Klaus Maria Brandauer; John Barry; Fredric Steinkamp; David Watkin; Isak Dinesen; Judith Thurman; Errol Trzebinski; Mirage Productions.; Universal Pictures (Firm); Universal City Studios.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2000]

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985. Based on the books: Out of Africa / by Karen Blixen; Shadows on the grass ; Letters from Africa / by Isak Dinesen. Isak Dinesen, the life of a storyteller / by Judith Thurman. Silence will speak / by Errol Trzebinski. Based on the life of writer Isak Dinesen. Special features: Song of Africa : an original documentary; feature commentary with director Sydney Pollack; production notes; cast & filmmakers; theatrical trailer; recommendations; Universal WEB links. Nominated for 11 Oscars and 6 Golden Globes in 1986. Running time approx. 161 min.
Summary: The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya (British East Africa)in 1914. An epic romance of love and loss.

OCLC #: 47699599

Call Number: DVD01142

by: Tim Robbins; Morgan Freeman; Bob Gunton; William Sadler; Clancy Brown; Gil Bellows; James Whitmore; Frank Darabont; Stephen King; Castle Rock Entertainment (Firm).

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1999.

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1994. Contains a stills gallery, interactive menus, a theatrical trailer and provides scene access. Based on the short novel “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King. Nominated for 7 Oscars and 2 Golden Globes in 1995. Running time approx. 142 min.
Summary: Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940’s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

OCLC #: 44805927

Call Number: DVD01157

by: Billy Wilder; I A L Diamond; Robert Thoeren; M Logan; Marilyn Monroe; Tony Curtis; Jack Lemmon; Joe E Brown; George Raft; Pat O’Brien; Adolph Deutsch; Orry-Kelly; Ashton Productions.; Mirisch Corporation.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2009].

Notes: Originally released in 1959 (121 mins.) Nominated for six 1960 Academy Awards and 3 Golden Globes.

Summary: When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They’re desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep they true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords.

OCLC #: [?]

Call Number: DVD00499

by: Joshua Logan; Rossano Brazzi; Mitzi Gaynor; John Kerr; Oscar Hammerstein; Richard Rodgers; James A Michener; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Magna Theatre Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; CBS Fox Video.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : CBS Fox Video, ©1999.

Notes: Originally released in 1958 (157 mins.); Adapted from the play “South Pacific” by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan; Based on “Tales of the South Pacific” by James Michener; Nominated for three 1959 Academy Awards and one Golden Globe.

Summary: An American Navy nurse falls in love with a French plantation owner in the South Seas during World War II.

OCLC #: 664420017

Notes: See the 2001 version on DVD00500

Added: March 27, 2012

Call Number: VHS01707

by: Richard Gere; Julia Roberts; Ralph Bellamy; Touchstone Pictures.; Silver Screen Partners IV.; Buena Vista Home Video.; Touchstone Home Video.

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video ; Boston, MA : Dist. by DVS Home Video, [1993?]Notes: Originally released in 1990. Nominated for 4 Golden Globes and 1 Oscars in 1991. Running time approx. 119 min.

OCLC #: 191221410

Also Available on DVD01107

Added: March 27, 2012

Call Number: VHS01706

by: King Vidor; Leo Tolstoy, graf; Audrey Hepburn; Henry Fonda; Mel Ferrer; Paramount Pictures.; et al

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher:  Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, ©1994.

Notes: Originally released in 1956. Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy. 2 videocassettes 208 min. Nopminated for 5 Golden Globes and 3 Oscars in 1957.

Summary: By 1812, Napoleon’s forces controlled much of Europe. Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, prepares to face Napoleon’s troops together with Austria. Among the Russian soldiers are Count Nicholas Rostov and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky. Count Pierre Bezukhov, a friend of Andrei’s and self-styled intellectual who is not interested in fighting. Pierre’s life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov, Nicholas’s sister, but she is too young, so he gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, manipulative Princess Helene. The marriage ends when Pierre discovers his wife’s true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. Months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year until Natasha turns 17…

OCLC #: 319928601

Added: March 27, 2012

Call Number: DVD01063

by: Christian Clavier; Isabella Rossellini; Gérard Depardieu; John Malkovich; Jean-Pierre Guerin; Didier Decoin; Yves Simoneau; Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar] ©2004.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Alliance Atlantis in Association with France 2/RAI/Telecino/Kirchmedia/MA Films/ A & E Networks. [Remstar]  ©2004.

Notes: Originally released as a television mini-series in 2002. Disc 4 includes bonus material: Napoleon: Behind the scences; Napoleon and Wellington; Napoleon Bonaparte: The glory of France. Special features: behind the scenes featurette; bonus programs; cast biographies and filmographies; interactive menus; scene selections. Nominated for 7 Emmys in 2003 (4 discs 6 hours 4 min.).

Summary: Follow young Bonaparte’s ascent from a simple Corsican soldier to the most powerful man on earth, and go beyond the battlefield to examine the political intrigues, personal struggles, and complicated romances that mark Napoleon’s rise and fall.

OCLC #: [?]

Added: March 20, 2012

Call Number: DVD00495; DVD01158

by: Bruce A Block; Nancy Meyers; Jack Nicholson; Diane Keaton; Keanu Reeves; Frances McDormand; Amanda Peet; Jon Favreau; Paul Michael Glaser; Michael Ballhaus; Joe Hutshing; Hans Zimmer; Columbia Pictures.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Waverly Films.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2004.

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: optional audio commentary with writer/director Nancy Meyers, Diane Keaton and producer Bruce A. Block; optional audio commentary writer/director Nancy Meyers and Jack Nicholson; Harry sings karaoke to Erica – deleted scene (3 min.); Hampton’s house set tour with Amanda Peet (3 min.); filmographies (Meyers, Nicholson, Keaton, Reeves, McDormand, Peet, Block); theatrical trailer (3 min.). 128 min.

Summary: Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

OCLC #: 53997078

Added: March 16, 2012

Call Number: DVD01139

by: Billy Wilder; George Axelrod; Charles K Feldman; Marilyn Monroe; Tom Ewell; Evelyn Keyes; Sonny Tufts; Robert Strauss; Oscar Homolka; Marguerite Chapman; Roxanne; Alfred Newman; Charles K. Feldman Group Productions.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., ©2006.

Notes: Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1955. Based upon an original play “The Seven Year Itch” by George Axelrod as presented on the stage by Courtney Burr & Elliott Nugent. Special features: Backstory: ‘The Seven Year Itch’ [featurette] (24 min.); Deleted scenes (4 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Spanish theatrical trailer (2 min.); Fox Movietone news: “The Seven Year Itch” sneak preview (33 sec.); One sheet gallery [slide show]; Restoration comparison; [text and video feature] (3 min.); Marilyn Monroe theater [previews] (10 min.); Booklet includes an essay by Sylvia Stoddard. 104 min.

Summary: Like many other Manhattan husbands, Richard Sherman sends his wife and son to the country for the summer, while he stays behind to toil. Though reveling in temporary bachelor freedom of lifestyle, he’s resolved not to carouse and philander like some others. But his overactive, over-vivid imagination goes into overdrive when a delightfully unconventional, voluptuous blonde moves in upstairs.

OCLC #: 70134789

Added: March 16, 2012

Call Number: DVD00704

by: George Axelrod; Buddy Adler; Joshua Logan; Marilyn Monroe; Don Murray; Arthur O’Connell; Betty Field; Eileen Heckart; Robert Bray; Hope Lange; Hans Conried; Max Showalter;William Inge; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., ©2001.

Notes: Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1956. Based on the play by William Inge. Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Diamond collection [previews] (10 min.); Restoration comparison [text and video feature] (3 min.); Lobby cards [slide show]; Post card [poster reproduction]. 105 min.

Summary: Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board the bus to his home in Montana. When the bus stops at Grace’s Diner the passengers learn that the road ahead is blocked. By now everyone knows of the kidnaping, but Bo is determined to have Cherie.

OCLC #: 47093392

Added: March 16, 2012

Call Number: DVD01024

by: Fred Zinnemann; Robert Bolt; Wendy Hiller; Leo McKern; Robert Shaw; Orson Welles; Susannah York; Paul Scofield; Nigel Davenport; John Hurt; Corin Redgrave; Colin Blakely; Cyril Luckham; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Highland Films.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher:  Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]

Notes: From the play by Robert Bolt. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: The life of Saint Thomas More [featurette] (18 min); Trailers (3 min.). Production company: Highland Films. 120 min.

Summary: The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellor’s life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henry’s determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More’s inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.

OCLC #: 82144505

Added: March 16, 2012