Edward G. Robinson
Series
Film noir killer classics volume Disc 4
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homely, henpecked Chris Cross leads an honorable, if tedious, middle-class life until he falls madly in love with the dangerously seductive young Kitty.
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Key Largo: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There...
10) Key Largo
Series
The signature collection volume Bogie & Bacall
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
11) Scarlet Street
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.
12) Manpower
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only thing more dangerous than their job was the woman they both loved.
13) The stranger
Series
Film noir killer classics volume Disc 3
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.
14) Scarlet Street
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.
17) Double indemnity
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
18) Soylent green
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The stranger (94 min.): An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after WWII to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation.
Orson Welles on film (30 min.): A documentary exploring Orson Welles' career as a filmmaker in Hollywood.
