John Schuck
Series
Criterion collection volume 827
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
Publisher
VEI (Visual Entertainment Inc.)
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco Police Commissioner Stuart McMillan solves the cities toughest crimes, despite facing some setbacks from his wife Sally, crazy housekeeper Mildred, and his slow-witted Sergeant Charlie Enright. Includes all 7 episodes of Season 5: Deadly Inheritance, Requiem for a Bride, Aftershock, Secrets for Sale, The Deadly Cure, Greed, and Point of Law.
8) Project Alf
Publisher
Patchett Kaufman Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Six years ago, space alien ALF was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to terminate him.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
11) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
12) Brewster McCloud
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?
13) Roots
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[℗2011]
Language
English
Description
Roots, adapted from the Alex Haley novel that traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction in Africa to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Roots, the next generations follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s...