Richard Conte
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1955
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 blu-ray (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a woman learns that her murdered sister was the victim of a black market adoption ring, she sets out to find the killer; a woman finds her life falling apart when she becomes addicted to gambling; after a New York City doctor is killed, a detective goes undercover and discovers a narcotic selling ring.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story. The "Doolittle Raiders" are put on trial in a Japanese civil court, not as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder. As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their only hope of avoiding execution is to reveal to their...
7) Whirlpool
Series
Fox film noir volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her subconscious mind."--Container
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Biographical film that tells the story of Lillian Roth, who battled alcoholism as she worked her way to Broadway stardom. After her fall from fame to a booze-hazy existence on L.A.'s Skid Row, she fought her way back with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Series
Fox film noir volume 8
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Description
"A man awakens in a Honolulu hospital with no memory of his identity. He has three personal items : a wallet, a letter from an angry ex-lover, and a note from one Larry Cravat, an apparent business associate. Searching for Cravat, the amnesiac heads to Los Angeles, enlisting the help of a saloon singer, her boss and a police lieutenant. When he starts asking questions, he's blindsided by goons and chased by cops, but ultimately makes a shocking discovery."--Container....
Series
Fox film noir volume 17
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When Max Monetti first gets out of prison, life seems good. The bank founded by his father and now run by his brothers is thriving. The society woman he loves has waited seven long years for him. But for Max, every day of those seven years was filled with hatred. And when he learns that his father died because he was squeezed out of the bank by the brothers after Max took a rap for him, that hatred bubbles to the surface, obliterating everything,...
11) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (248 min.) : black & white, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Singapore (1947): In pre-war Singapore, Matt Gordon falls in love with the beautiful Linda Grahame, but loses contact with her when the Japanese attack. Five years later, he returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls and accidentally reconnects with Linda, now married to a rich planter Van Leyden and suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, the sinister Mauibus schemes to steal Matt's pearls.
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949): They cracked...
13) The Godfather
Formats
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A working girl wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of a brutish playboy. She flees leaving behind a blue gardenia, which prompts a sensational columnist to brand her "The Blue Gardenia". Struggling to conceal her involvement with the playboy and to remember the details of that night, she eventually turns for help to the journalist who transformed her into such a notorious public figure.
15) Thieves' highway
Series
Criterion collection volume 273
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. But when Figlia gets wise to his plan, Nick finds himself in a web of treachery and heartbreak."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Human desire] A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion, and murder .
[Pushover] A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But he makes the mistake of really falling for her, testing his loyalties with deadly results.
[The brothers Rico] A businessman and...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (585 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terror street: A U.S. Air Force pilot becomes the logical suspect after his wife is shot and killed. The thirty-six hours he has to clear himself are filled with twists and turns culminating in an exciting climax.
Wings of danger: A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is supected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entagled in a morass of suspicion.
Glass...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 or 4 DVDs (491 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
Ocean's eleven (117 min.): Hollywood's A list stars come together...