Marlon Brando
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (150 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. **Academy Award** nominee.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
3) The Men
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this emotional drama, the incomparable Marlon Brando plays former GI, Ken, who has become paralyzed as a result of the war. After fighting through an intense battle with depression following his injuries, Ken soon focuses on his physical therapy and eventually believes that he may gain the use of his limbs again. But after falling in love and marrying the woman of his dreams, problems arise that puts Ken right back into the hospital. Nominated...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When their parents died in an accident, Flora and Miles were looked after by their governess, Miss Jessel and the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But it is Peter Quint (Marlon Brando), the Irish servant, who really rules the house and particularly Miss Jessel who submits herself totally to him. Under Quint's influence, the children receive a fiendish initiation. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Actor (Marlon Brando).
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway star with Johnny Depp in this romantic drama about a man who believes himself to be the legendary Don Juan—and who attempts suicide after the loss of his one true love. But placed under the care of a world-weary therapist, the patient begins to cure the doctor.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
7) The freshman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A naive young student accepts a job working for a powerful New York importer and finds himself drawn deep into a complex scam.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...
11) Bedtime story
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The classic comedy caper is about two cunning conmen on the French Riviera. The caddish Freddy Benson enjoys setting up elaborate ruses to seduce women. The suave Lawrence Jameson likes to pose as a prince to swindle the wealthy. When the two men meet, each perceives the other as an interloper and a threat. Upon the arrival of vacationing soap heiress Janet Walker, the two sweet -talking scoundrels compete to trick her out of both her clothes and...
12) Guys and dolls
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (149 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.
13) The score
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Persuaded to help a desperate friend for a $6 million payday, an expert safecracker postpones his retirement to pull off one last heist with a novice thief. Their foolproof plan turns into a high risk gamble when a clash of egos threatens to bring them both down.
14) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
15) One-eyed Jacks
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rio, a bank robber, is bent on revenge against his one-time partner in crime.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (459 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...