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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dinah Hunter, a career woman, picks up a pair of hitchhikers who rob her and drop her off on the roadside. Her attempts to find help result in a horror-filled nightmare.
2) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn't bother to explain why he's there, and Riktor is too afraid to ask. He knows he's guilty of a terrible crime and he's sure the policeman has found him out. But when the policeman finally does confront him, Riktor freezes. The man is arresting him for something...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-cop Nick Cassidy escapes from prison to plan the ultimate heist: steal a $40 million diamond from cutthroat businessman David Englander, and in the process prove his innocence. From the ledge of the famous Roosevelt Hotel, with the whole world watching, Cassidy plays a clever game of cat & mouse with the NYPD while his dutiful brother Joey works against the clock to extract the diamond and clear his brother's name.
Publisher
Distibuted by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ill-fated young couple are separated when he is put in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Convicted felon Eddie Taylor decides to lead the straight life with his devoted girlfriend, Joan, who arranges for his early parole. She agrees to marry him, but a bank robbery gone bad points accusing fingers at the innocent Eddie. Taking Joan on the lam, Eddie is caught in a cat-and-mouse chase with the law closing in just a few steps behind them! This...
Author
Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Thrown in jail after preventing a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene, unlicensed private detective Rushmore McKenzie is caught up in the nightmare of his own past as he investigates a case involving a cheating boyfriend.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (12 hrs. 51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After being wrongly accused of murdering his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble escapes custody and sets out to find the real killer: a one-armed man."--Volume 1.
"Prison escapee Richard Kimble is a doctor who has been falsely convicted of killing his wife. He is determined to prove his innocence by leading Lt. Philip Gerard to the one-armed man who committed the crime. Because the compassionate Dr. Kimble has a natural inclination to help people, he always...
11) The Mauritanian
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
This is the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable...
12) The wrong man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Formats
Description
The true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 19
Description
As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
"When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments. But can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless. and more than a little reckless--the opposite of her ambitious...
15) American violet
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young, single mother of four is wrongly accused of selling drugs near a school and is offered a plea deal that would force her to admit to a crime she didn't commit. She challenges the laws of Texas when, instead of ruining her life with a conviction, she decides to sue the DA for racial discrimination in a case that changes her life as well as the laws of her state. Based on a true story.
17) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and formal rigor to a new astringency. Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver, leading him to incarceration and violence.
18) The jacket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Gulf War veteran has returned home with amnesia only to be convicted of a murder he didn't commit. While in an institution for the criminally insane he is put on a heavy course of experimental drugs and restrained in a jacket-like device and locked away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process mysteriously transports him to the future where he hopes to make changes that can alter the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. Includes his companion essay, "Memories of My Grandmother""--
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (161, 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The good, the bad, and the ugly: A spaghetti western tale of greed, revenge and epic warfare. Three ruthless outlaws avidly search for a treasure chest containing $200,000.
Hang 'em high: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
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