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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of an Englishman touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Moriarty has at long last been brought to trial for murder, but is acquitted after the court finds a lack of sufficient evidence. Moriarty wastes no time in plotting his next crime, but he must first divert the attention of the Great Detective.
24) The thin man
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Standard edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white.
Language
English
Description
Crime/comedy thriller featuring Nick Charles, private eye, and his wife Nora. The plot unfolds at Christmas when an eccentric inventor disappears after threatening his mistress with a lawsuit for embezzlement.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 7 hr., 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective, and his trusted companion Dr. Watson pursue and solve mysteries in a variety of locations throughout England.
26) Stakeout
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two plainclothes cops are convinced that a dangerous escaped convict is headed for his ex-girlfriend's apartment. They "stakeout" her apartment and the watch remains routine until one of the detectives falls in love with the woman under surveillance.
29) Rope
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brenda Marshall stars as Nora Goodrich, a scientist working on an anesthesiology project. Her lab partner sabotages an experiment leaving Nora's face badly scarred. After her face is surgically altered, she plots revenge on her enemies.
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (188 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dick Tracy meets Gruesome: TRacy's hot on the trail of some bank robbers who use a drug to freeze people in their tracks. Their leader is Gruesome, who gets his jollies by killing his enemies and stuffing their bodies into a roaring furnace -- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball: The local cops are delighted when jewel thief Cueball starts killing members of his own gang after they've double-crossed him. Unfortunately, Dick Tracy is also in the balg guy's sights...
33) The interview
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A detective matches wits with a man suspected of being a serial killer.
34) The third man
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
35) Murder by decree
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson conduct a gruesome and dangerous search through London's squalid east end for the legendary Jack the Ripper. They soon discover that he is no ordinary murderer, but one with influential and determined friends.
37) Road to Bali
Publisher
Marengo Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Road to Bali, Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unscrupulous South Sea island prince. In My favorite brunette, Hope plays a photographer who substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery.
Series
Criterion collection volume 193
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
39) Even money
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes, and away from police cavalcades, as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust.
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