James Whitmore
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pappy Boyington is the squadron-leader of the "Black Sheep Squadron", a group of misfit Marine fighter pilots stationed on an island in the Pacific, during World War II. Pappy often needs to intercede in altercations at the base, but everyone seems to pull together when they are assigned missions in the air.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American trapeze act comes to pre-World War II Germany; two of the members are trapped inside Berlin after the other commits suicide. They find work with Dr. Vergerus at St. Ana's clinic, and soon discover that all is not what it appears to be.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Mr. Bevis] James Bevis a good-natured accident-prone eccentric is given a chance at success by his guardian angel but there's a catch: all the quirkiness in his personality has got to go. [The silence] Archie Taylor offers incessant talker Jamie Tennyson half a million dollars if he can keep quiet for a year. It's a bet that Tennyson can't resist. [On Thursday we leave for home] William Benteen has been the unquestioned leader of a stranded outpost...
6) Moses
Pub. Date
200u
Physical Description
1 video disc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enslaved by Pharaoh, monarch of ancient Egypt, the Hebrews are forced to labor beneath the blazing desert sun, without rest and without hope. But then, from among the slaves, there emerges a leader who's not afraid to confront Pharaoh. His name is Moses.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four American astronauts crash land on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An NYPD detective's wife is dying while he takes on a tough murder case. The circumstances are wearing on him, and he might just bend the rules to nail the killer. He orchestrates a meticulous manhunt, but one slip and the killer goes free. His plan must not fail.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Description
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises-- and he saves his best for last." -from container.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Where the red fern grows : Where the Red Fern Grows is, quite simply, a wonderful story for all ages and for all time. A boy's yearning for two Redbone Hound dogs, which his parents couldn't afford during the desolate times of the Depression in the Ozarks, is the setting for this truly triumphant film. Billy's grandfather promises the lad that God will meet him halfway if he believes in himself and his beloved dogs. Billy faces adventure, suspense,...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I will fight no more forever: Shows events that led to the conflict in 1877 between the Nez Perces and the U.S. Army. Chief Joseph led the 300 Nez Perce braves, their women and children in the historic running battle against ten separate commands of the Army.
14) Them!
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing...
15) Black like me
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this action-packed World War II drama, two daredevil U.S. Army captains are assigned the impossible task of infiltrating Nazi-occupied France to retrieve and destroy a killer toxin capable of destroying mankind.
19) The relic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A plucky evolutionary biologist joins forces with a tough Chicago cop to unravel the mystery behind the horribly mangled corpses that keep popping up around her museum during an opening night gala. Sure enough, there's a monster to blame, sprung from a strange artifact of South American origin.
20) Madigan
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran New York City detective is given only a few hours to track down a vicious killer.
