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Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans in the late 1950s gearing up for the Civil War centennial--one claiming to be the last Confederate soldier and one claiming to be the last Union soldier--and one of them a fraud. Last of the Blue and Gray sets the stage for the centennial anniversary of our nation's most difficult period, with notions of ethics and honor and also dishonesty...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 312 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The perfect furlough: A scheming corporal with a personnel file that reads like a stag movie rigs a raffle and wins a trip to Paris with a beautiful movie star.
The great impostor: The incredible but true story tells of how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian Navy, while outrunning the FBI, the police, a priest, and...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
5 Blu-rays + 5 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays (569 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Saboteur: A young factory worker is accused of sabotage and sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase to clear his name.
Shadow of a doubt: A teenage girl comes to suspect that the uncle she idolizes may in fact be the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
The trouble with Harry: While no one really minds that Harry is dead, everyone has a different idea about what should be done with his body.
Marnie: Marnie is a compulsive...
207) Off the rails
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for impersonating New York City bus drivers and subway conductors and driving their routes. Over three decades, Darius commandeered hundreds of trains and buses, staying en route and on schedule, without ever getting paid. He attended transit worker union meetings, lobbying for better pay and working conditions....
208) Spring fever
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : silent., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Golf nut Jack Kelly gets a chance to play golf at an exclusive club. There he pursues Allie Monte telling her he is a wealthy golf pro. When she learns the truth she'll have nothing to do with him. In the end love prevails as Kelly becomes a golf champion and wins the girl as well.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging apple seller poses as a wealthy grande dame to help her daughter marry into a legitimately wealthy family. A comic collection of gangsters help her in her charade.
211) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"-- an apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
212) The imposter's war: the press, propaganda, and the newsman who battled for the minds of America
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the lead-up to America's entry into the First World War, Germany spent the modern equivalent of one billion dollars to infiltrate American media, industry, and government to undermine the supply chain of the Allied forces. If not for the ceaseless activity of John Revelstoke Rathom, editor of the scrappy Providence Journal, America may have remained committed to its position of neutrality. And yet John Rathom was not even his real name. And his...
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
"Combining the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, The Red Chapel is a one-of-a-kind documentary that reveals the injustices of North Korea with a hilariously dark wit ... a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel", pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. This stunt is led by the acerbic director Mads Brügger, and assisted by Simon Jul and Jacob...
214) Regeneration
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[1st work] Regeneration follows the rise of a child of the slums from impoverished orphan at age ten to successful Bowery hoodlum at twenty-five. On the vice-ridden streets of New York, however, he rediscovers his forgotten innocence through the encouragement of Mamie Rose, the proprietress of a downtown mission, but must resist the influences of his colleagues to whom he is bound by criminal codes of honor. [2nd work] A shopgirl reads a romance serial...
215) The ladykillers
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor Marcus rents a London flat, telling his landlady that he and his friends are musicians who will be rehearsing in the flat. In reality, neither the professor nor his friends can play a note. He is a criminal mastermind, holding court over his gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Harry, the homicidal Louis and punch-drunk One-Round. The gang uses the professor's flat as a headquarters, where they conceive a daring 60,000 pound robbery....
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