Catalog Search Results
61) Border incident
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gang smuggles illegal Mexican farmworkers across the California border and kills the immigrants before they can return home. When federal agents Pablo Rodriguez and Jack Bearnes go undercover to overturn the organization, they find themselves face-to-face with its leader, Owen Parkson. The agents quickly realize that what began as a routine murder case has become a struggle for survival.
62) Footlight parade
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A timid stenographer removes her glasses and - wow - she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, a greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer and his Girl Friday work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times.
63) The Frisco Kid
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber and the two cut a pratfall-filled path across the wild west.
64) The naked spur
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas.
65) Olympia
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
The first of two films made to record the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Although controversial for its ties to, and representation of National Socialism, it is considered by many to be a brilliant and ground-breaking sports documentary.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.
67) Sergeant York
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend. He finds he is still regarded by others as an unsavory and unwelcome hustler, especially by the father of his ex-girlfriend, a local political boss.
70) Tiefland
Publisher
Pathfinder Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 18th century Catalonia, the story of the love of a selfish feudal lord and a handsome, brave shepherd for the same beautiful gypsy dancer.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A movie "about a very big woman with a very bad attitude, The woman is wealthy Nancy Archer, fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her rat of a husband has been at play while the cat's been away, putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy's fortune will be theirs. That day will never come--not after Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her body into overdrive. Soon, Nancy's size matches her rage. She'll prove big...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of bush pilots from Northern Canada feel their patriotic spirit roused during Winston Churchill's famous "Blood, sweat and tears" radio speech to pump up the British/Allied morale. They decide to enlist as pilots, only to find their age and attitude working against them. One of the pilots, Brian McLean, finds that his commander is the former boyfriend of his wife. To make matters worse, Brian needs to do things his way, leading to a tragedy...
73) The clock
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A soldier on a two-day pass meets an office worker who agrees to show him New York City. They spend the day together and find themselves falling in love.
74) The jazz singer
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Jakie Rabinowitz is the son of a Jewish cantor. Turning his back on family tradition, Jakie transforms himself into cabaret-entertainer Jack Robin. When Jack comes home to visit his parents, he is warmly greeted by his mother, but is given the cold-shoulder by his father, who feels that Jack is a traitor to his heritage by singing jazz music. On the eve of his biggest show business triumph, Jack receives word that his father is dying. Out of respect,...
76) The Yakuza
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan - and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. He returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the brutal Japanese mafia.
77) Cimarron
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.
78) Kismet
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hafiz, the jovial King of Beggars, dons new garments and slips into the royal palace to woo his regal 'Lady of the Moonlight.' Meanwhile, Bagdad's new Caliph carries out his own masquerade, posing as a gardener's son and roaming the city ... where he falls in love with a peasant girl who happens to be Hafiz's daughter. How will it all work out? It depends on the machinations of court intrigue and on fate -- kismet"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screen adaptation of John Le Carre's bestseller about a pro-Palestinian actress who gets recruited to impersonate an Israeli agent and gets caught in the world of terrorists.
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase