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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme--and the beloved films that made them stars.
5) K2
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two friends, one an attorney and the other a physics professor, share a dream--they want to climb K2. They finally have an opportunity to do so when they are asked to join an international climbing team, put together by a legendary mountaineer. Little do they know that their survival will rest on the one thing they can't depend on--their loyalty to each other.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen format (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A generally light-hearted Western tale of would-be retiree Jack Beauregard, the fastest gun alive. Jack's plans of leaving gunfighting for a quiet life in Europe are put on hold when a man named Nobody tells Jack that there's a 150 hired hitmen on Jack's trail.
7) The mechanic
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A clever hired assassin suffering from remorse & anxiety finds himself the object of another assassin; he must try to outsmart his hunter.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special collector's edition ; widescreen version (16x9).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
9) Desperado
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.
10) The hurricane
Series
Publisher
Cine Korea
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Determined to escape unjust imprisonment on a South Pacific island, Terangi breaks out of jail and makes the perilous journey back to his wife in the face of a vicious hurricane.
11) The atomic city
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nuclear physicist Frank Addison and his wife are living every parent's worst nightmare after their son Tommy gets kidnapped. And it just so happens that the kidnapper's ransom demands are the secrets behind the H-bomb!
12) Predators
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royce is a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human 'predators' find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it's the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
TV personality John Tanner is looking forward to a reunion party with his closest friends. That is, until the CIA warn him that they are all Soviet agents. Suddenly, he and his family are caught in a nightmare of terror, deception, helplessness and violent death.
14) Bellflower
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.
15) The buccaneer
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The debonair pirate Jean Lafitte, who historically aided General Andrew Jackson against the British during the War of 1812, has been carrying on a discreet love affair with Annette Claiborne, the daughter of governor William Claiborne, who promises to pardon the pirate and his men.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pilot flying for drug smugglers looks the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a beautiful woman he has misused. Veronica Lake stars as the antihero's girlfriend.
17) Parker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
18) Hickey & Boggs
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp are united again as private eyes in a Walter Hill-scripted 'film noir'. Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.
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