Paul Newman
Author
Description
The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's own...
4) The sting
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (3 hrs. 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when the troupe discovers it must put on a special command...
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (478 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Features plays from 1953-1958 and includes Marty (1953); Patterns (1955); No Time for Sergeants (1955); A Wind From the South (1955); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956); Bang the Drum Slowly (1956); The Comedian (1957); and Days of Wine and Roses (1958).
9) Cars
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"El Rayo" McQueen, un novato pero prometedor auto de carreras, vive en el carril de alta velocidad hasta que se topa con una desviaci?n en el camino a la carrera m?s importante de su vida. Atrapado en Radiador Springs, un pueblo olvidado en la vieja Ruta 66, conoce a Sally, Mate, Doc Hudson y un gran variedad de pecuilares personajes que lo ayudan a descubrir que la vida es mucho m?s que trofeos y fama. Acelerada con una sensacional banda sonora que...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
12) Slap shot
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The coach of a third-rate hockey team signs up some rough and tough players to help his team win.
13) Hombre
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A white man raised as an Apache faces confrontation with society.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Formats
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
15) Twilight
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Ross is a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups.
16) Cool hand Luke
Formats
Description
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Description
Elevators turn into crematoria, rooms explode into a living hell. and one by one, avenues of escape disappear. The celebrated opening of the world's tallest skyscraper turns into horrifying disaster as a holocaust leaps up and traps hundreds. A fireman and the building's architect lead the rescue efforts, but the pyrotechnics remain the center of attraction.