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Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Language
English
Description
A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Winner of the Best Director Award and Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the...
Series
Language
English
Description
The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
3) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call are now young men dealing with the ever increasing tensions of adult life-- Gus with his great love, Clara, and Call with Maggie, the young prostitute who is in love with him. McCrae and Call join a Ranger troop in pursuit of three outlaws: Comanche Chief Buffalo Hump, Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf and Ahumado, the deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for slow torture. Together, they struggle...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1986.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is pregnant. The story of unselfish love between a man and a woman and the abiding love within a family, this American classic explores the enduring themes of human existence.
7) Courtship
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the gifted pen of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) comes a touching trilogy of American tales set in early 20th Century Texas. Elizabeth has fallen in love with a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her parents cannot deter their daughter's growing independence. This carefully nuanced portrait of a family in conflict displays a master's feel...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While a middle-aged Dallas gynecologist whose wife has become mentally ill falls for his sexy new golf pro, chaos surrounds the wedding of his daughter, and his alcoholic sister-in-law arrives with three nieces in tow.
12) The Hot spot
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harry Madox, a charismatic drifter finds work as a car salesman in a small town in Texas. He quickly becomes involved with two beautiful, complex women. When Madox hatches a sure-fire plan to rob the local bank, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal web of lust, greed, and extortion, whose only escape is murder.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A show about a rigid redneckish propane salesman with a good heart and wacky friends and family. All 24 episodes from season 4, 1999-2000.
14) Texas born
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gabriel Brandon had been her hero ever since she was a girl and he'd rescued her, an orphan, from sure ruin. And Michelle Godrey had loved him forever, the mysterious rancher with the dark eyes, her protector and guardian angel. Now she'd blossomed into a woman. Could Michelle ever cast aside the shadows between them? Could she show Gabriel that their Lone Star love was true?"--Publisher.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Jack Ridge, a former piano prodigy once mentored by Van Cliburn, who has retreated to his family's farmland in north Texas. His wife has left him, and the week of the annual county piano competition, he punches his fist into a wall, threatening his first public performance in years. When the local corporate farm ratchets up the pressure on him to sell his land, his only allies are Phillip and Alyssa.
17) San Antonio
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rustlers have taken Clay Hardin's cattle and have holed up in San Antonio. So Clay does what any cowboy in his position would do: strap on his sidearm, ride into town and settle the score.
18) The getaway
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The setting is East Texas, where Mitchum's philandering patriarch rules the local area. His wife (Eleanor Parker) has raised their son (George Hamilton) as a momma's boy, the kind of soft kid who gets bamboozled into going on a "snipe hunt" with the pranking locals. His opposite number is a manly farmhand (George Peppard) with his own bond with Mitchum.
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