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Series
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
2) Gung Ho
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
Series
Language
English
Description
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
5) The dish
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Story telling how the biggest television event in history was almost not televised. Apollo 11 goes to the moon and the first step is to be televised around the globe. But right before the landing, the dish flatlines. Its up to the unconventional Aussie crew and the by-the-book NASA supervisor to work together to fix the dish before the landing occurs.
Series
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School.
11) The singing nun
Series
Language
English
Description
With lilting melodies and an earnest sense of higher calling, Ann takes her faith where it might not otherwise go - onto the world's airwaves. Her "Dominique" becomes a smash single.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, and world traveler. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself. Traced here is Twain's remarkable life.
13) The Badlanders
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Quinto is a sack full of rattlesnakes, an Oklahoma Territory-panhandle town outside U.S. jurisdiction. Here, the James Gang, the Daltons, Belle Starr and other desperados take refuge from the law. Then along comes the last person any criminal wants to see: Sheriff Mark Rowley, who's searching for his missing brother."--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
16) Cry havoc
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant. Make do: supplies will not arrive. Stay strong, despite the overwhelming odds.
17) Edison, the man
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Audie Murphy, World War II's most-decorated GI, portrays an Old West detective who purposely lands behind bars so he can infiltrate a secret gang with a vicious MO: spring prisoners from their cells, force them to be front men for notorious crimes, then kill them to collect the reward money for their dead-or-alive capture.
20) Honky tonk
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A gambler attempts to settle into honest life in a small town by falling in love with a young local and opening up a saloon with his gambling winnings.
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