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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 675 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Johnny Staccato, starring legendary actor, writer and director John Cassavetes, first appeared on television in 1959, and although it lasted only 27 episodes, the unique mixture of big-city mystery-adventure and jazz left an indelible impression on a generation of TV viewers. Johnny Staccato (Cassavetes) is an ex-jazz musician/detective who would prefer to play the piano, relax on a beach, or just talk about life. At his home-away from home, Waldo's...
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.
43) Elena
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...
44) Union Station
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the city from her wealthy employer's residence, Joyce Willecombe spots two armed men on the train. She reports them to the conductor who radios the station's police. Once at Union Station, she points out the men to Lt. William Calhoun, who discovers that the gunmen are members of a gang who have kidnapped her employer's blind daughter, and are seeking a ransom. The Chicago police, headed by inspector Donnelly, and the FBI are both called...
45) The stranger
Series
Killer classics volume Disc 3
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles directs and stars in this thriller about a monstrous Nazi official who's hiding out as a small-town American college professor. A war crimes detective turns up determined to expose him -- even if it means endangering the Nazi's innocent wife.
46) The bigamist
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The title character is not only a two-timer; he's a traveling salesman as well. But, the bigamist comes across as a victim of his own sensitivity. Caught between two complementary spouses, the bigamist's dazed indecisiveness dominates the narrative. One wife is an upper-crust "lady," reverently attached to her dying father, while the other is a tough-talking working woman, waitressing in a cheap Chinese restaurant. As always in Ida Lupino's directorial...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Bowman is a new bride glowing with delight as she and her charming new husband, John, set sail on the SS Monrovia for a transatlantic honeymoon. But when John inexplicably vanishes, Ruth discovers that no one on the ship has any record of his existence. As she slips into hysteria, Ruth has to prove that her marriage and John's existence is not just her own delusion. The ship's physician, Dr. Paul Manning, might be the only person on board who...
48) Deadline-U.S.A
Series
Publisher
Twentieth-Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An editor at a newspaper due to fold in three days intends to use the remaining time to expose the criminal activities of a vicious crime boss.
49) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
50) True Confessions
Author
Language
English
Description
Two of the finest actors of our time, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, star in this must-see tale of two brothers set on a collision course as the result of a brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles.
51) A life at stake
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film is also known as Key Man. In this picture, an out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. But the architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial. She may actually be deadly!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect.
53) The long night
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Adams, a factory worker trapped inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious gentleman, reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting through an intricate series of flashbacks.
54) The racket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A straight-arrow cop and an old-school gangster find a common foe: big shots who run crime like a corporation.
55) Gilda
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015], 1946.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded-out sheet.
Language
English
Description
A deceitful woman plays with the lives of her husband, his crimelord boss, and his right-hand man.
56) The dark corner
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A detective, already framed for murder once, is framed for the murder of his ex-partner, the man who framed him the first time.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Postal Inspector Al Goddard is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The only witness to the crime is Sister Augustine, who identifies the photograph of one of the assailants. This leads Goddard to a seedy hotel where he learns that the assailant is a member of a gang headed by Earl Boettiger, and he soon discovers that the gang is planning a million-dollar mail robbery.
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
59) Comedy of power
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
After locking up an embezzling CEO, Jeanne pushes the limits of her power even further and winds up in a dangerous game of threats and intimidation.
60) Bodyguard
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
Warner Home Video,
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. While the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bluebloods, the meat-packing industry and cop corruption.
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