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A Walk in the Night

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
A Walk in the Night
Call Number: VHS00162
by Mickey Madoda Dube;
Format: VHS
Language: In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1999?]
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (78 mins.); Adaptation of Alex La Guma’s 1962 novella;
Summary: A Walk in the Night recounts a single terrible night during which the fragile world of Mikey Adonis, a young Coloured steel worker, disintergrates. As the pressures on Mikey build, we see a decent man driven to an act of brutality by a racist society which humiliates him at every turn.
OCLC #: 43210809
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Siegfried

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Nibelungen: Siegfrieds Tod
Call Number: VHS00160 Copy 1
VHS00160 Copy 2
by Paul Richter; Margarete Schön; Theodor Loos; Hanna Ralph; Georg John; Hans Adalbert Schlettow; Fritz Lang; Erich Pommer; Thea von Harbou; Katharine Hilliker; H H Caldwell; Arthur Lennig; Gaylord Carter; Decla-Bioscop.; UFA.; UFA Films.; Blackhawk Films.; Republic Pictures Home Video (Firm);Greene; Goodtimes Home Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Republic Pictures Home Video, ©1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1924 (95 mins.); An originally silent motion picture with German intertitles reissued with music and English intertitles; Originally called Nibelungen: Siegfrieds Tod or Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die; Companion to: The Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s revenge; Silent film with organ accompianment, performed by Gaylord Carter;
Summary: Siegfried recounts the story of Siegfried, the heroic knight whose exploits range from slaying a monstrous 70-foot dragon to wooing the lovely Kriemhilde. His quest for her hand is thwarted when he learns he must first find wife for her brother – a reequisite that leads to Siegfried’s downfall.
OCLC #: 26880436
Added: October 21, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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The White Cliffs of Dover

Monday, October 20th, 2008
The White Cliffs of Dover
Call Number: VHS00159
by Irene Dunne; Alan Marshal; Roddy McDowall; Frank Morgan; Van Johnson; C Aubrey Smith, Sir; May Whitty, Dame; Gladys Cooper; Clarence Brown; Claudine West; Jan Lustig; George Froeschel; Alice Duer Miller; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, [1993]
Notes: Originally released in 1944 (126 mins.); Nominated for one 1945 Academy Award;
Summary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son’s own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
OCLC #: 28054680
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Boom Town

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Boom Town
Call Number: VHS00157
by Clark Gable; Spencer Tracy; Claudette Colbert; Hedy Lamarr; James Edward Grant; John Lee Mahin; Jack Conway; Loew’s Incorporated.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm); Turner Entertainment Co.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1940 (120 mins.);  Based on a story by James Edward Grant; Nominated for two 1941 Academy Awards;
Summary: Hard-hitting yarn of wildcat days and wildcat ways in the development of the American oil business
OCLC #: 22434112
Added: October 20, 2008
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Song of Love

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Song of Love
Call Number: VHS00156
by Katharine Hepburn; Paul Henreid; Robert Walker; Ivan Tors; Irma von Cube; Allen Vincent; Robert Ardrey; Clarence Brown; Turner Entertainment Co.; MGM/UA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : MGM/UA Home Video, 1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1947 (119 mins.);
Summary: A woman truly ahead of her time, Clara Wieck lights up the stage with her beauty and talent, captivating some of the greatest musicians of the period. But at the height of her career, Clara leaves the stage to marry composer Robert Schumann and raise their children. When Schumann dies, his student, now-famous Johannes Brahms, reappears to ask Clara to be his wife but Clara is consumed by a mission to return to the stage so the world will hear her husband’s music.
OCLC #: 25126710
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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All That Jazz

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
All That Jazz
Call Number: VHS00155 Copy 1
VHS00155 Copy 2
by Roy Scheider; Jessica Lange; Ann Reinking; Leland Palmer; Erzsebet Foldi; Bob Fosse; Robert Alan Aurthur; Cliff Gorman; Ben Vereen; Daniel Melnick; Giuseppe Rotunno; Alan Heim; Philip Rosenberg; Ralph Burns; Stanley Lebowsky; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; CBS Fox Video.; Columbia Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1979 (123 mins.); Nominated for nine 1980 Academy Awards;
Summary: Bob Fosse’s spellbinding film and four time Academy Award winner is a powerful story of a man driven compulsively to find perfection in his work. It is a musical which celebrates show business, yet strips it of its glitter.
OCLC #: 32775034
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Out of Africa

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Out of Africa
Call Number: VHS00153
by Robert Redford; Meryl Streep; Isak Dinesen; Judith Thurman; Errol Trzebinski; Universal Pictures (Firm); MCA Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Universal City, CA : MCA Home Video, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1985 (161 mins.); Based on the books “Out of Africa,” Shadows on the grass” and “Letters from Africa” by Isak Dinesen ; “Isak Dinesen, the life of a storyteller” by Judith Thurman ; and “Silence will speak” by Errol Trzebinski; Nominated for 10 1986 Academy Awards;
Summary: The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and the mysterious white hunter.
OCLC #: 14222269
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Body Heat

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Body Heat
Call Number: VHS00151
by Lawrence Kasdan; William Hurt; Kathleen Turner; Richard Crenna; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York : Warner Home Video, ©1981.
Notes: Originally released in 1981 (113 mins.);
Summary: Ned Racine is a lawyer until he meets Matty Walker. They plot the murder of Matty’s husband
OCLC #: 43043177
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection

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Notorious

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Notorious
Call Number: VHS00150
by Cary Grant; Ingrid Bergman; Claude Rains; Louis Calhern; David O Selznick; Alfred Hitchcock; CBS Fox Video.; ABC Video Enterprises.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher:  Beverly Hills, CA : CBS Fox Video : ABC Video Enterprises, ©1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1946 (103 mins.); Nominated for two 1947 Academy Awards;
Summary: Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
OCLC #: 28370122
Added: October 20, 2008
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No Way Out

Monday, October 20th, 2008
No Way Out
Call Number: VHS00149
by Kevin Costner; Gene Hackman; Roger Donaldson; HBO Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HBO Video, ©1987.
Notes: Originally released in 1987 (114 mins.); Based on the book by Kenneth Fearing;
Summary: A powerful tale of intrigue set in the political whirl of Washington and the inner corridors of the Pentagon
OCLC #: 17429714
Added: October 20, 2008
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