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1) Black widow
Series
Fox film noir volume 22
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nancy Ordway is an aspiring writer hoping to make it big in New York at the expense of everyone around her, including Broadway producer Peter Denver, who reluctantly lets her use his apartment to work during the day. And when Peter's wife, Iris, comes home from a trip to find Nancy dead in the bathroom, the assigned detective, Lt. Bruce, soon realizes this assumed suicide is more likely a murder. Everyone Ordway knew is suddenly suspect, while a series...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police psychologist Sarah Taylor becomes involved with Tony Ramirez as the result of a chance encounter. As their involvement escalates, so do a series of anonymous threats directed at Sarah.
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 132 p. ; 19 cm.).
Description
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 17 hrs. 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mystery writer turned amateur detective Jessica Fletcher is back with another season of solving crimes and finding the clues that nobody even knew were there.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (574 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"Jean Rouch was an inspiration for the French New Wave, and a revolutionary force in ethnography and the study of Africa. Beginning in 1955 with his most controversial film The Mad Masters, through 1969's darkly comic Little by Little, these films represent the most sustained flourishing of Rouch's practice of "shared anthropology," a process of collaboration with his subjects. Astonishing on their own terms, now restored and released for the first...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,320 mins) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development: slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1089 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Reunite with Jim Rockford, the quintessential antihero detective, in all 22 season three episodes of the action-packed, five-time Emmy award-winning mystery series The Rockford files. James Garner stars as the wisecracking ex-con-turned-private-eye whose approach to crime is cooler than his sleek Pontiac Firebird and more casual than his mobile home in Malibu. Filled with wry humor, chilling suspense and engaging mysteries, this five-disc collection...
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