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1) The Jackal
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
2) Vertigo
Language
English
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
4) Nixon
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A riveting look at a complex man, Richard Nixon, whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power--when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States.
5) The omen
Series
Collector's edition volume 29
Language
English
Description
When their child is stillborn in Rome--on the 6th day, of the 6th month, at the 6th hour--Robert Thorne, an American diplomat, and his wife Katherine are devastated. In his despair, Thorne exchanges his dead baby for one born at the same time. They unwittingly enter a bargain with the devil that culminates in a series of gruesome 'accidents' by a child that, one day, may destroy the world.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya (British East Africa) in 1914, and her passionate love affair with a big-game hunter. An epic romance of love and loss.
8) Metropolis
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
9) Road to Bali
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two vaudeville actors find a beautiful princess, cannibals, a giant squid, and more on a South Sea Island. The sixth entry in the Hope-Crosby "Road" series.
10) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
Series
Gold crown collector's edition volume 64
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Margaret Ryder, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, grows up during the Great Depression, she alone is the link between Mama and Papa's silent world and the hearing world they do not fully understand...and it does not understand them. Her youth is spent sacrificing friendships and romance as she struggles to keep her parents' deafness a secret from everyone who knows her. Torn between the responsibility she feels for her parents and her own...
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