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Victim
Call Number: VHS00258
by Basil Dearden; Michael Relph; Dirk Bogarde; Sylvia Syms; Dennis Price; Nigel Stock; Public Media Incorporated.; Home Vision (Firm); Janus Films.; Allied Film Makers.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Chicago : Home Vision Cinema, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1961 (100 mins.);
Summary: Dramatization of the problems of the criminalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults. Bogarde plays a successful barrister who places his career on the line by ‘coming out’ in order to expose a blackmail racket. It was the first British film to concentrate on male homosexuality and was made with the specific intention of supporting the new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee for the partial decriminalization of male homosexual acts.
OCLC #: 37729923
Added: November 4, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Victim
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Pépé le Moko
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Pépé le Moko
Call Number: VHS00253
by Julien Duvivier; Ashelbe.; Jean Gabin; Murray Hill Video.;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill Video, [198-?]
Notes: Originally released in 1937 (90 mins.); Based on the novel by Roger d’Ashelbé (Henri La Barthe);
Summary: A Parisian gangster is safe from the police while hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers, but he falls in love and follows the lady into danger.
OCLC #: 19686306
Added: November 3, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Point of No Return
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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Point of No Return
Call Number: VHS00225
by Luc Besson; John Badham; Bridget Fonda; Gabriel Byrne; Dermont Mulroney; Warner Bros.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Video, 1993.
Notes: Originally released in 1993 (109 mins.); Based on Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita;
Summary: Bridget Fonda stars as Maggie, a woman transformed by a covert government agency from a Death Row inmate into an elite assassin living on borrowed time.
OCLC #: 28773244
Added: October 29, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Zou Zou
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Zouzou
Call Number: VHS00221
by Bernard Goldberg; Arys Nissotti; Marc Allégret; Carlo Rim; G Abatino; Josephine Baker; Jean Gabin; Kelber.; D Batcheff; Van Parys-Scotto; Al Romanis;
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: [New York, NY] : Kino International ; [Chatsworth, Calif.] : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainmen, ©1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1934 (92 mins.); Based on the story by G. Abatino;
Summary: Backstage musical, in which a talented laundress takes the place of the lead on opening night and saves the show.
OCLC #: 148112243
Added: October 29, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Call Number: VHS00217
by Peter Greenaway; Richard Bohringer; Michael Gambon; Helen Mirren; Alan Howard; Vidmark Entertainment.; Miramax Films.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [S.l.] : Vidmark Entertainment, 1990.
Notes: Originally released in 1970 (123 mins.); Edition contains the original uncut letterboxed version;
Summary: Set in an indefinite future, this is an outrageous and satirical film about love, sex, food, power, murder and revenge.
OCLC #: 23176703
Added: October 28, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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Diabolique
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
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Les Diaboliques
Call Number: VHS00211 Copy 1
VHS00211 Copy 2
VHS00211 Copy 3
by Simone Signoret; Vera Clouzot; Charles Vanel; Paul Meurisse; H -G Clouzot; Boileau-Narcejac.; Jérôme Geronimi; René Masson; Frédéric Grendel; Crown Video (Firm);
Format: VHS
Language: French with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1 and 2: New York, NY : Crown Video, [198-?]; Copy 3: North Hollywood, CA : Hollywood Select Video, Inc. : Distributed by Timeless Video, ©1994.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (109 mins.); Based on novels by Boileau & Narcejac
Summary: A mystery drama about murder in a private school for boys. The wife and the mistress of a tyrannical headmaster dispose of him only to be mystified by the disappearance of his body and ghostly hints of his presence.
OCLC #: 12191813
Added: October 28, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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A Walk in the Night
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008A 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
Body Heat
Monday, October 20th, 2008Body 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
Wild at Heart
Monday, October 20th, 2008David Lynch’s Wild at Heart
Call Number: VHS00135
by David Lynch; Nicolas Cage; Laura Dern; Willem Dafoe; Diane Ladd;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: New York : CBS/Fox Video, [1991].
Notes: Originally released in 1990 (125 mins.); Based on the novel by Barry Gifford; Nominated for one 1991 Academy Award;
Summary: Two young lovers are on the run from one’s nasty mother. Filled with David Lynch’s trademark offbeat characters.
OCLC #: 23378978
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
Some Like it Hot
Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Some Like it Hot
Call Number: VHS00133 Copy 1
VHS00133 Copy 2
by Billy Wilder; I A L Diamond; Marilyn Monroe; Tony Curtis; Jack Lemmon; MGM Home Entertainment (Firm); MGM/UA Home Video (Firm); United Artists Corporation.; Ashton Productions.; Mirisch Corporation.;
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: [California?] : MGM Home Entertainment ; Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, ©1997.
Notes: Originally released in 1959 (122 mins.); Nominated for six 1960 Academy Awards; Based on a story by R. Thoeren and M. Logan; Copy 2 contains the original theatrical trailer;
Summary: Two unemployed musicians accidently witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians.
OCLC #: 39089854
Added: October 20, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
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