Clifton James
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes.
2) Superman II
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This continuation of the adventures of the Man of Steel takes up where the original left off. Three fugitive super-powered Kryptonian do-badders plan to enslave Earth -- just when Superman decides to show a more romantic side to Lois Lane. The timing is off for the son of Jor-El, but it's ideal as Metropolis comes under siege"--Container.
3) Juggernaut
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Britannic is halfway across the Atlantic when an anonymous telephone caller threatens to blow up the ship unless he receives 1 1/2 million dollars.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Peter Churchman and his crew spend a long time robbing German banks to get enough money to restore a French cathedral they bombed inadvertently during WW II. Churchman then moves to a Spanish village where he leads a peaceful life, until a former accomplice pays a visit to persuade him to return to his bank-robbing skills, under threat of blackmail. Churchman sets about robbing a bank during Pamplona's famed Festival of San Fermin.
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the African American communities. Includes a bonus disc with the documentary "Uncommon vision:...
9) Will Penny
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman and her son, on her way to join her husband, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known as he falls in love with her, but the gang is on its way to finish him off.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, p1974]
Language
English
Description
Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 and faces off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga. Features a wild car chase through Bangkok and Bond's stunning confrontation with an entire martial arts school.
14) Lone star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love. Includes original theatrical trailer.
16) Live and let die
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
James Bond battles the forces of black magic that hurtles him from the streets of New York City to Louisiana's bayou country. With charm, wit and deadly assurance, James takes on a powerful drug lord with a diabolical scheme to conquer the world.
Language
English
Description
The Bad News Bears (1976): Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlitzer, the daughter of a former girlfriend, and Kelly Leak, a motorcycle punk who happens to be the best player around. Brimming with confidence, the...
20) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Language
English
Formats
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...