Dennis Dun
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of graduate students and scientists discover an ancient cannister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. Shortly after the discovery, the liquid seems to come alive, generating an evil energy that systematically turns members of the group into zombies. It also releases Satan, thus paving the way for the return of his father, the all-powerful Anti-God.
Formats
Description
Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who goes beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to battle an army of spirits when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped.