Truman Capote
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxii, 177 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already recognizable. His prose: witty, poignant, and crystal-clear....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold...
11) The grass harp
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A teenaged boy is sent to live with his aunts in a small Southern town in the 1930's.
12) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Formats
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
13) Beat the devil
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
14) In cold blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 781
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers.
15) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
Series
Formats
Description
Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min., 89 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
19) Murder by death
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lionel Twain, an eccentric millionaire, invites five famous detectives to dinner and reveals to them that someone will die at midnight.