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Jules and Jim

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Jules et Jim
Call Number: VHS00177 Copy 1
VHS00177 Copy 2
by François Truffaut; Oskar Werner; Henri Serre; Jeanne Moreau; Henri Pierre Roché; Films du carrosse (Firm); Video Dimensions.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: New York : Video Dimensions, [1984?]; Copy 2: [S.l.] : Janus Films : Public Media Home Vision [distributor], 1992.
Notes: Originally released in 1962 (100 mins.); Based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche;
Summary: The friendship of Jules, who is German, and Jim, who is French, and their twenty year love for the same woman.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 11586736; Copy 2: 82545836
Added: October 27, 2008
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Gentleman's Agreement

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Gentleman’s Agreement
Call Number: VHS00173
by Gregory Peck; Dorothy McGuire; John Garfield; Celeste Holm; Elia Kazan; Darryl Francis Zanuck; Moss Hart; Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson; Fox Video (Firm); Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: New York : Jewish Media Fund, 1997
Notes: Originally released 1947 (118 mins.); nominated for eight 1948 Academy Awards; Based on the novel Gentleman’s agreement by Laura Z. Hobson.
Summary: A writer who is assigned to do a magazine series on anti-Semitism decides to pose as a Jew, and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance.
OCLC #: 39446754
Added: October 22, 2008
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Rowing with the Wind

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 
Remando al viento
Call Number: VHS00171
by Hugh Grant; Lizzy McInnerny; Valentine Pelka; Elizabeth Hurley; José Luis Gómez; Virginia Mataix; Ronan Vibert; Jose Carlos Rivas; Gonzalo Suárez; Yvonne Blake; Alejandro Masso; Jose Salcedo; Carlos Suarez; Wolfgang Burman; Jose Jacoste; Miramax Films.; Iberoamericana de TV.; Viking Film (Firm); Ditirambo Films.; Televisión Española.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: [S.l.] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1999?]
Notes: Videocassette release of the 1987 Spanish-Norwegian production (126 mins.);
Summary: While visiting friends at a secluded estate, an extraordinary woman, Mary Shelley, envisions a terrifying beast that turns into a human creation! From that moment on, she is powerless to stop the relentless torment of her sinister brainchild– a living nightmare that threatens to destroy all that she loves!
Also: See other films about the creation of the book Frankenstein: the Ken Russell directed Gothic (VHS00734); and the Ivan Passer directed Haunted Summer (VHS00720); In addition see other interpretations of Frankenstein: The James Whale directed, Frankenstein (VHS00354); the Charles Barton directed Bud Abbott & Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (VHS00759); the Roger Corman directed Frankenstein Unbound (VHS00760); and Kenneth Branagh directed Frankenstein (VHS00758/DVD00062);
OCLC #: 41408293
Added: October 21, 2008
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Titanic

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
 
Titanic
Call Number: VHS00169
by Leonardo DiCaprio; Kate Winslet; Billy Zane; Kathy Bates; Frances Fisher; Bernard Hill; Jonathan Hyde; Danny Nucci; Gloria Stuart; David Warner; Victor Garber; Bill Paxton; James Cameron; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Lightstorm Entertainment (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, [1998]
Notes: Originally released in 1997 (194 mins.); Nominated for 14 1998 Academy Awards;
Summary: Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
OCLC #: 39779624
Also: See the earlier release, Titanic – directed by Jean Negulesco (VHS00128);
Added: October 21, 2008
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Smiles of a Summer Night

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Sommarnattens leende
Call Number: VHS00163
by Ingmar Bergman; Allan Ekelund; Gunnar Fischer; Erik Nordgren; Ulla Jacobsson; Harriet Andersson; Gunnar Björnstrand;
Format: VHS
Language:  Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (108 mins.); Original title: Sommarnattens leende;
Summary: Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.
OCLC #: 26737008
Added: October 21, 2008
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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
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You've Got Mail

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
You’ve Got Mail
Call Number: VHS00158
by Nora Ephron; Tom Hanks; Meg Ryan; Jean Stapleton; Greg Kinnear; Dabney Coleman; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Originally released in 1998 (120 mins.); Based on the movie “The Shop Around the Corner” (VHS00130) and its musical remake “In the Good Old Summertime;” Also based on a play by Nikolaus Laszlo;
Summary: A romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children’s bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware that they are combative business rivals.
OCLC #: 41288346
Added: October 20, 2008
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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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Romeo & Juliet

Monday, October 20th, 2008
 
Romeo and Juliet
Call Number: VHS00146
by Olivia Hussey; Leonard Whiting; Franco Zeffirelli; William Shakespeare; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures Corp., ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1968 (138 mins.); Based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; 1968 Royal Film Performance; Nominated for four 1969 Academy Awards;
Summary: Teenagers fall in love, but are opposed by their families.
Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); the Baz Luhrmann version, Romeo + Juliet (VHS00060); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (VHS00318); the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise interpretation, West Side Story (VHS00557);
OCLC #: 19225475
Added: October 20, 2008
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Born Yesterday

Monday, October 20th, 2008
Born Yesterday
Call Number: VHS00138
by Garson Kanin; Judy Holliday; William Holden; Broderick Crawford; George Cukor;
Format: VHS
Language: English  
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, ©1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1950 (103 mins.); Based on the stage play by Garson Kanin; Nominated for five 1951 Academy Awards;
Summary: A millionaire junk dealer arranges for his unsophisticated girlfriend to take a course in “culture.”
Also: See the later-released version Born Yesterday (VHS00670)
OCLC #: 14709790
Added: October 20, 2008
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