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Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.
3) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At a Caribbean resort, Kevin Riley and his family take a carefree boat ride that turns tragic when they���re stranded on an island. Near death, they���re rescued by a local fisherman who demands a million dollars, then vanishes. Riley must race to find his dying wife and son on an unknown island before their time runs out.
5) Cymbeline
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1967 a young woman came to Dr Bertram Wainer's Melbourne surgery seeking emergency medical attention after a backyard abortion. She was desperately ill yet too afraid to go to hospital. For Wainer this was the start of a long, hard campaign to overturn laws that made abortion an offence punishable by up to 15 years in jail and forced women to turn to unskilled operators. In the process, Wainer uncovered a web of corruption involving highly paid...
7) Love, Simon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen year old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life changing.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) A bug's life
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray discs (ca. 202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank accounts?--Container.
Uniform justice. Brunetti is deeply affected...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (431 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: The Maltese falcon: Some high-living lowlifes want to get their hands on a bejeweled falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why and find out who will take the fall for his partner's murder. The big sleep: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and ends up wearing out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.
Disc 2: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her...
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