Lloyd Bridges
Author
Language
English
Description
Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography. The author's role in Sea Hunt made him keenly aware of the revolution developing in the fields of salvage diving, treasure hunting, search and rescue, science, gold mining, and other virgin areas open to skin divers with imagination and enterprise. He described...
3) High Noon
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Gary Cooper won the **Academy Award** for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, Cooper stands to lose not only the town but his new wife, Grace Kelly. The film also stars one of Hollywood’s most beloved and prolific actors, Lloyd Bridges, and marks the first starring role for a beautiful...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mater Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 975 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danger and excitement are always lurking below the surface in this underwater adventure classic. Mike Nelson is a scuba diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone and outwits villains, salvages anything from a bicycle to a nuclear missile from the sea, and rescues those trapped underwater.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (11 hr.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colton, a former Union cavalry captain rides the American West in search of himself. His journey finds him crossing paths with a range of men and women emblematic of the best and worst in humanity.
6) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (573 min.) : sound (stereo.), color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An six part series, which chronicles a black man's search for his heritage and reveals an epic panorama of America's past.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former renegade pilot Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is coaxed out of retirement in a Buddhist temple by a beautiful CIA agent to undertake a do-or-die mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Iraq. Topper and his Hot Shots follow an action-packed trail booby-trapped with spoofs of Apocalypse now and the Rambo movies and filled with famous faces in hilarious cameos.
8) Sahara
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small group of Allied soldiers try to defend themselves from Germans in the Sahara desert outside of Tobruk.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 671 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a minor heart attack - and a major midlife crisis - Chicago lingerie salesman Dave Hart says adios to the big city, uproots his less-than-enthusiastic family and heads West in search of his inner hombre.
10) Hot shots!
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
12) Ramrod
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Connie Dickason has inherited a sheep ranch from her ex-husband and is determined to run the ranch with the help of her new Ramrod and his crew of anti-Ivey locals despite the opposition of Ivey and her father. The resulting bloody range war is much to the dismay of Dave, who wants to resolve Connie's problems with Ivey legally.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 382 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
16) Wichita
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home VIdeo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the final cycle of classical westerns of the mid to late Fifties which culminated in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. McCrea plays the legendary Wyatt Earp whose reluctant acceptance of the role of town marshal brings him into conflict with cattle interests and the town's businessmen.
17) The Rainmaker
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood.
18) The giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
19) High noon
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.
20) East of Eden
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 382 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...