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Call Number: DVD00892 Copy 1

DVD00892 Copy 2

by: John Wayne; Jeffrey Hunter; Vera Miles; Ward Bond; Natalie Wood; Henry Fonda; Shirley Temple; Pedro Armendáriz; George O’Brien; Victor McLaglen; Anna Lee; Irene Rich; Dick Foran; Guy Kibbee; Grant Withers; Mae Marsh; John Agar; Dean Martin; Rick Nelson; Angie Dickinson; Walter Brennan; John Russell; Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez; Estelita Rodriguez; Roscoe Lee Browne; Bruce Dern; Colleen Dewhurst; Frank S Nugent; John Ford; Jules Furthman; Leigh Brackett; Dimitri Tiomkin; Howard Hawks; John Williams; Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank; William Dale Jennings; Mark Rydell;

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009];

Notes:  Films Released between 1948 and 197, (431 mins.) Special features: disc [1], side A. Commentary by director, Peter Bogdanovich; disc [1], side B. Featurette, Monument Valley: John Ford country; theatrical trailer; disc [2], side A. Director, John Carpenter and historian/critic, Richard Schickel; John Wayne movie trailer gallery; disc [2], side B. Featurettes, The cowboys: together again and The breaking of boys and the making of men; theatrical trailer.
Ride the high country: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
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The Searchers – A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother’s daughter.

Fort Apache – A calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.

Rio Bravo – A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.

The Cowboys – A rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers for the gold mines.

OCLC #: 327431576

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: DVD00890

by: James Dean; Natalie Wood; Paul Newman; Elizabeth Taylor; Marlon Brando; Stewart Stern; David Weisbart; Nicholas Ray; Elia Kazan; Paul Osborn; Richard Brooks; James Poe; Lawrence Weingarten; Charles K Feldman; John Steinbeck; Tennessee Williams; Warner Home Video (Firm); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2009];

Notes:  Films Released between 1958 and 1983, (459 mins. Black and White & Color); Summary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.

East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.

Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.

A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman’s mental collapse through exposure to her brother-in-law’s animal magnetism.

OCLC #: 308528741

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: DVD00889

by: by Cary Grant; Katharine Hepburn; James Stewart; Spencer Tracy; George Cukor; Howard Hawks; George Cooper Stevens; Turner Classic Movies (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2009;

Notes:  Films Released between 1938 and 1966, (426 mins. Black and White & Color);

Summary: Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.

Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.

Adam’s rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.

Woman of the year (1942, 112 min.): In this hilarious excursion into the Battle of the Sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper’s bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for each other.

OCLC #: 310976949

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: DVD00895

by: Gabriel Katzka; Harold Loeb; Troy Kennedy Martin; Sidney Beckerman; Brian G Hutton; Kenneth Hyman; Nunnally Johnson; Lukas Heller; Robert Aldrich; Clint Eastwood; Telly Savalas; Don Rickles; Carroll O’Connor; Donald Sutherland; Lee Marvin; Ernest Borgnine; Charles Bronson; Jim Brown; John Cassavetes; Richard Jaeckel; George Kennedy; Trini Lopez; Ralph Meeker; Robert Ryan; Clint Walker; Robert Webber; E M Nathanson; Richard Burton; Mary Ure; Patrick Wymark; Michael Hordern, Sir.; Van Johnson; John Hodiak; Ricardo Montalbán; George Murphy; Marshall Thompson; Jerome Courtland; Don Taylor; Bruce Cowling; James Whitmore; Douglas Fowley; Leon Ames; Guy Anderson; Thomas E Breen; Denise Darcel; James Arness; Scotty Beckett; Brett King; Jerry Gershwin; Elliott Kastner; Alistair MacLean; Dore Schary; Robert Pirosh; William A Wellman; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2007.

Notes: Films Released between 1949 and 1970, (566 mins. Black and White & Color);

Summary: Kelly’s heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing, including the search-and-rescue order just issued to them. Battleground: The gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler’s fierce, final counteroffensive at Bastogne. A feisty sergeant and a wisecracking private show a rugged and unsparing look at men in combat.

OCLC #: 422596010 & 704115891

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: DVD00886

by: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon; Teresa Wright; May Whitty, Dame; Reginald Owen; Henry Travers; Richard Ney; Henry Wilcoxon; Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier; Louis Jourdan; Hermione Gingold; Eva Gábor; Jacques Bergerac; Isabel Jeans; Gene Kelly; Oscar Levant; Georges Guétary; Nina Foch; Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Jan Struther; Colette; Hal B Wallis; Julius J Epstein; Philip G Epstein; Howard Koch; Michael Curtiz; Sidney A Franklin; Arthur Wimperis; George Froeschel; James Hilton; Claudine West; William Wyler; Arthur Freed; Alan Jay Lerner; Vincente Minnelli; Max Steiner; Herbert Stothart; Frederick Loewe; Ira Gershwin; George Gershwin; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); First National Pictures, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Arthur Freed Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.

Notes: Films Released between 1942 and 1958, (462 mins. Black and White & Color); Casablanca is based on the play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, Mrs. Miniver is based on the book by Jan Struther, Gigi is based on the novel by Colette; Special features: Disc 1, Side A: 2 commentaries with critic Roger Ebert and historian Rudy Behlmer; introduction by Lauren Bacall. Side B: Greer Garson Academy Awards footage; photo gallery; 2 World War II-era shorts: “Mr. Blabbermouth” and “For the common defense.” Special features: Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; vintage short “The million dollar nickel;” classic CinemaScope cartoon “The vanishing duck;” theatrial trailer. Side B: Commentary hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly and featuring rare interviews with Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Michael Feinstein, Preston Ames and Irene Sharaff, and new observations by Leslie Caron and Nina Foch; vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks short “Paris on parade;” classic cartoon “Symphony in slang;” theatrical trailer

Summary: [Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick’s cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick’s life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver’s are an English ‘middle-class’ family who, together, experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs. The Miniver’s son beings courting Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and it is entered into a competition where her rose will go up against Lady Beldon’s rose.

[Disc 2]: Gigi: Gaston is the scion of a wealthy Parisian family who finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, request he become her provider. An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan is a struggling American painter in Paris who is ‘discovered’ by an influential heiress. She just happens to an interested in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. His relationshp with Lise is filled with romantic complications.

OCLC #: 312174857

Added: March 18, 2011

Call Number: VHS01441

by  Erich Pommer; Tess Slesinger; Frank Davis; Dorothy Arzner; Maureen O’Hara; Louis Hayward; Lucille Ball; Russell Metty; Robert Wise; Edward Ward; George Forrest; Robert Wright; Vicki Baum; RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; Turner Home Entertainment (Firm);

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [S.l.] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1989]

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1940 (89 mins. Black & White); Based on a story by Vicki Baum;

Summary: A couple of ambitious chorus girls compete for the men in their lives as well as for the chance to make it big in the world of show business.

OCLC #: 20462103

Added: January 26, 2011

Language: English

Publisher:  [S.l.] : Thorn EMI Video, [1980?]

Notes: Originally released in 1963 (112 Mins. Black & White)

Summary: A tale of hypocrisy and hatred until a corrupt servant becomes the master.

OCLC #: 10919183

Added: November 10, 2010

Language: English

Publisher:  Creepy Classics, Ligonier, PA [?]

Notes: Originally released in 1932 (71 Mins. Black & White)

Summary: A scientist is kidnapped and his experimental death ray falls into the wrong hands. The scientist enlists the help of his brother-in-law, Chandu the magician, to find the gun and save humanity.

OCLC #: 246725044

Added: November 10, 2010

Language: English

Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA. : Nelson Entertainment, 1988.

Notes: Documentary (91 Minutes)

Summary: Originally produced as a newsreel by Time Magazine, The March of Time is an award-winning documentary series which takes a fascinating look at the world during the first half of the 20th century.

OCLC #: 21436548

Added: November 9, 2010