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Little Women
Call Number: VHS00017 Copy 1
VHS00017 Copy 2
by Denise DiNovi; Robin Swicord; Gillian Armstrong; Winona Ryder; Susan Sarandon; Gabriel Byrne; Trini Alvarado; Samantha Mathis; Kirsten Dunst; Claire Danes; Thomas Newman; Louisa May Alcott; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm); Columbia Pictures.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1995
Notes: Originally released in 1994 (118 mins); Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott; Nominated for three 1995 Academy Awards
Summary: Classic story by Louisa May Alcott about the March family of four daughters, a strong mother and a father away during the Civil War.
OCLC #: 32679509
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Little Women
Thursday, October 9th, 2008The Lady Eve
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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The Lady Eve
Call Number: VHS00016
by Paul Jones; Preston Sturges; Barbara Stanwyck; Henry Fonda; Charles Coburn; Eugene Pallette; William Demarest; Eric Blore; Melville Cooper; Martha O’Driscoll; Janet Beecher; Monckton Hoffe; Paramount Pictures.; MCA Universal Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [Universal City, CA] : MCA Universal Home Video, ©1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1941 (93 mins); Nominated for one Academy Award;
Summary: Stanwyck portrays a calculating card shark who fleeces passengers on transatlantic ocean liners. When she discovers that an ingenuous young millionaire is on board, she figures he’ll be a pushover if she plays her cards right. Sure enough, he does fall for her, but surprise–she also falls for him. When he’s tipped off that true romance is not in the cards because she’s giving him a fast shuffle, his fondness fades. Now she realizes that if she wants to win him back, she’s got to stop her double-dealing, and she does but not before she turns up a few tricks of her own.
OCLC #: 33152219
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Call Number: VHS00015
by Frank Capra; Robert Riskin; Gene Havlick; Howard Jackson; Clarence Budington Kelland; Gary Cooper; Jean Arthur; George Bancroft; Lionel Stander; Douglass Dumbrille; Raymond Walburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1989]
Notes: Originally released in 1936 (115 mins); Nominated for five 1937 Academy Awards
Summary: Comedy about Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet who inherits $20 million from his uncle and is promptly declared insane by petty moochers, relatives, conniving lawyers and big business executives; they all want a piece of the pie and are upset because Longfellow decides to give the money away to needy people.
OCLC #: 42506599
Also: This item is also available on DVD format at DVD00014
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Call Number: VHS00013
by William Goldman; John Foreman; George Roy Hill; Paul Newman; Robert Redford; Katharine Ross; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Fox Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : FoxVideo, ©1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1969 (111 mins); Nominated for seven Academy Awards;
Summary: The exploits of the two outlaws of the West in their round-trip train robbery, their elusion of the posse and their capture in Bolivia after more bank robberies.
OCLC #: 39845695
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Romance on the High Seas
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Romance on the High Seas
Call Number: VHS00012
by Michael Curtiz; Julius J Epstein; Philip G Epstein; I A L Diamond; Alex Gottlieb; Jack Carson; Janis Paige; Don Defore; Doris Day; Oscar Levant; S Z Sakall; Fortunio Bonanova; Leo F Forbstein; Ray Heindorf; Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn; Busby Berkeley; Sixto Pondal Ríos; Carlos A Olivari; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Turner Entertainment Co.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1991]
Notes: Originally released in 1948 (99 mins); Doris Day’s first film role; Includes Academy Award nominated song;
Summary: Musical about a singer, Georgia Garrett, who takes the place of a socialite on a cruise and finds herself embroiled in the plots and counterplots of a suspicious husband and wife.
OCLC #: 24269771
Added: October 9, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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A Room with a View
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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A Room with a View
Call Number: DVD00017 Copy 1
DVD00017 Copy 2
by Ismail Merchant; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory; Maggie Smith; Denholm Elliott; Judi Dench; Simon Callow; Helena Bonham Carter; Julian Sands; Daniel Day-Lewis; E M Forster; Tony Pierce-Roberts; Merchant Ivory Productions.; Goldcrest Films International.; National Film Finance Corporation (Great Britain); Curzon Film Distributors.; Film Four International.; BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, ©2004.
Notes: Two-disc special edition DVD (117 mins); Based on the novel by E.M. Forster; Released as a film in England in 1985; Special features: disc 1. new restoration supervised by director James Ivory and cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts; commentary from Simon Callow, Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Tony Pierce-Roberts; disc 2. archive promotional appearances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Simon Callow; BBC report on the film’s success in the U.S.; E.M. Forster remembered; film scrapbook with never-before-seen photos and memorabilia; Merchant Ivory tribute; Nominated for eight 1987 Academy Awards;
Summary: Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
OCLC #: 54810705
Also: Available in VHS format at VHS00050.
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Babel
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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Babel
Call Number: DVD00016
by Steve Golin; Alejandro González Iñárritu; Jon Kilik; Guillermo Arriaga Jordán; Brad Pitt; Cate Blanchett; Gael García; Kōji Yakusho; Adriana Barraza; Rinko Kikuchi; Mustapha Rachidi; Rodrigo Prieto; Gustavo Santaolalla; Stephen Mirrione; Anonymous Content (Firm); Central Films (France); Dune Films.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Zeta Films.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, ©2007.
Notes: Released in 2006 (143 mins); Nominated for seven 2007 Academy Awards;
Summary: A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general that has been upended by the death of her mother. It’s about a gun. It’s about communication – or the lack of it – both intercultural and intracultural. Raises issues like terrorism and immigration, and is as basic as husbands talking to their wives and parents understanding their children.
OCLC #: 77216065
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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The Departed
Monday, October 6th, 2008
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The Departed
Call Number: DVD00001
by Brad Pitt; Brad Grey; Graham King; William Monahan; Martin Scorsese; Leonardo DiCaprio; Matt Damon; Jack Nicholson; Mark Wahlberg; Martin Sheen; Ray Winstone; Vera Farmiga; Anthony Anderson; Alec Baldwin; Thelma Schoonmaker; Howard Shore; Andrew Lau Wai Keung; Zhaohui Mai; Zhuang Wenqiang.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Plan B (Firm); Initial Entertainment Group.; Vertigo Entertainment (Firm); Huan Ya zong yi ji tuan (Hong Kong); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]
Notes: 2-disc special edition set (151 min); Nominated for five 2007 Academy Awards; 9 additional scenes with introductions from director Martin Scorsese; feature-length TCM career profile “Scorsese on Scorsese;” “The story of the Boston mob:” the real-life gangster behind Jack Nicholson’s character; “Crossing criminal cultures:” how Little Italy’s crime and violence influence Scorsese’s work; theatrical trailer.
Summary: In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly thrust into danger. Afraid of being caught and exposed to the enemy, each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself
OCLC #: 76891049
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Call Number: DVD00014
by Frank Capra; Robert Riskin; Gene Havlick; Howard Jackson; Clarence Budington Kelland; Gary Cooper; Jean Arthur; George Bancroft; Lionel Stander; Douglass Dumbrille; Raymond Walburn; Columbia Pictures Corporation.; Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1999.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936 (115 mins); Based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Special features include: a featurette: Frank Capra Jr. remembers “Mr. Deeds goes to town”, theatrical trailers, vintage advertising, talent files; Interactive menus include: scene selection, language & subtitle selection, audio commentary track with Frank Capra Jr.; Nominated for five 1937 Academy Awards;
Summary: Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his uncle and wants to give it away to needy people. Petty moochers, greedy relatives, conniving lawyers and big executives, who all want a piece of the pie, attempt to have Deeds declared incompetent.
OCLC #: 43802354
Also: This item also available in VHS format at VHS00015
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Flags of our Fathers
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Flags of our Fathers
Call Number: DVD00008
by Clint Eastwood; Robert Lorenz; Steven Spielberg; William Broyles; Paul Haggis; Ryan Phillippe; Jesse Bradford; Adam Beach; John Benjamin Hickey; John Slattery; Barry Pepper; Jamie Bell; Paul Walker; Robert Patrick; Melanie Lynskey; Tom McCarthy; Chris Bauer; Tom Stern; Henry Bumstead; Steve Riley; Michael Owens; James Bradley; Dreamworks Pictures.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Amblin Entertainment (Firm); Malpaso (Company); Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: English
Publisher: Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Pictures ; Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor], 2007.
Notes: Based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers (132 mins); Released in 2006; Nominated for two 2007 Academy Awards;
Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
OCLC #: 77122195
Added: October 6, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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