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1) Cisco Pike
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A once famous rock singer is released from prison where he served time for drug dealing. He wants to go straight but is blackmailed by a crooked cop and is forced back into the drug dealing business.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
4) Cry terror!
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wife, a daughter, a steady job. Yesterday Jim Molner was an ordinary guy. Today he's a desperate man, frantically trying to save himself and his family, held hostage by a demented terrorist who's demanding $500,000 not to detonate a bomb he's planted on a domestic airliner.
5) 52 pick-up
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After indulging in an illicit affair with a young woman, a wealthy executive falls prey to blackmailers. His wife is running for political office, and he refuses to involve the police.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
7) Pitfall
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Harry Palmer is blackmailed into working for MI5 again on his wildest and most dangerous assignment yet. An insane oil billionaire, intent on destroying Communism by starting a new world war, is close to achieving his goal with the help of the world's largest and most powerful computer. Harry is the only man who may be able to stop him, but as he races from London to Finland to Latvia to Texas and back, he must determine who of his supposed...
9) Blowing wild
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bandits destroy the oil well of Jeff Dawson and his partner, Dutch Peterson. Desperate, they accept a dangerous transportation job, but are swindled out of their payment. With nowhere else to turn, they are hired by their old friend, Ward Paco Conway, an oil baron and married to Dawson's ex-love Marina. The bandits threaten to dynamite Paco's 18 wells unless he pays them a bounty of $50,000. Marina, still in love with Dawson, will stop at nothing...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. A tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; things quickly turn nasty.
15) Cymbeline
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
16) Gator
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A convicted moonshiner is blackmailed into becoming an undercover government agent in a criminal organization.
17) Whirlpool
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full frame version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her subconscious mind"--Container.
18) Detour
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run--a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage's snarling, monstrously conniving drifter...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. Jesse Gemstone, the eldest of three grown children, receives a blackmail video that could put his reputation at risk.
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