Richard Fleischer
1) Mandingo
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (127 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, MANDINGO takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1967.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A doctor discovers that he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's abolishment of the death penalty.
7) Barabbas
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (135 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulphur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixion, that he discovers his faith....
Publisher
Warner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen letterbox edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
21st century New York is teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent green. As police detective Thorn investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous...
9) Barabbas
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulphur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixion, that he discovers his faith....
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version (2.55:first).
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
11) Fantastic voyage
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version ; special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen letterbox ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mother lode: It's Silas McGee's gold. He just hasn't found it yet, although he's searched for his mother lode for more than 30 years in the remote high country of British Columbia. Strangers with a similar bent for gold had best stay away: folks like that may never come out of McGee's mine alive.
Soylent Green: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens,...
13) Tora!Tora!Tora!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
14) Mame
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucille Ball stars in this film of the blockbuster Broadway musical that tells the story of the flamboyant, unconventional and, above all, glamorous Mame. In 1928, nine-year-old Patrick Dennis (Kirby Furlong) comes to live with his Auntie Mame (Ball), who has a generous heart, believes life should be a party and collects fascinating friends. But the stock market crash of 1929 ends a decade-long fete and forces Mame into disastrous forays as an actress...