Ruth Roman
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
2) Go ask Alice
Publisher
Wham! USA
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a teenage girl's downhill spiral into drug addiction and her painful struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005, c1957]
Language
English
Description
Captain Leith and Major Brand are a pair of British Army officers assigned to execute a daring commando raid on the Libyan stronghold of General Rommel. Once the mission is underway, Leith must save the day when Brand's cowardice is revealed, thus putting the mission and the lives of the men in jeopardy. As they struggle through the wastes of the Sahara we learn who will live, who will die and what is the price of glory.
4) The window
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
5) Champion
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
Publisher
[Olive Films]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption.
7) Dallas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Blayde Hollister, ex-Confederate from Georgia, has waged his own war to settle past injustices. Now he's a wanted man. And he can feel the law closing in on him.
8) Starlift
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Red-white-and-blue fun abounds as Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Virginia Mayo, Jane Wyman, Randolph Scott and others perform for - or just shoot the breeze with - starstruck flyboys in uniform.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This follows the intersecting lives of Western expatriates who are held in confinement by the communist Chinese government. Dr. Dan Maynard is a physician determined to uphold the hippocratic oath, without bending to the will of his heartless captors.
10) The far country
Series
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A loner and his sidekick try to get rich quick by selling a herd of cattle at a fancy price during the wild gold ruch days in Yukon Territory. They soon get caught up in a conflict with the local self-appointed lawman and his claim jumping henchmen which ultimately ends in a guns-blazing finale.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
The far country: A self-minded adventurer who locks horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson. It is one of the few Westerns, along with North to Alaska, to be set (not filmed) in Alaska.
Night passage: The workers on the railroad haven't been...