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[1999], p1954., Madacy Entertainment Group Call No: DVD Fic Beat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a steamer needs to be repaired, six people are stranded en route to Africa where they are secretly trying to buy land with uranium deposits.
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2004., General, Alpha Video Call No: DVD Fic Big C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alpha video classics.Summary Note: Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
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(2005, p1946)., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic BigS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
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2001, p1961., General, Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic Cape Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When pyschopath Max Cady is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence, his single purpose in life is to destroy his lawyer Sam Bowden. He menaces Bowden's family and the lawyer must resort to unorthodox measures to get rid of Cady.
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By Evans, Robert, 1930- Polanski, Roman Alonzo, John A., 1934-2001 Towne, Robert Nicholson, Jack Dunaway, Faye Hillerman, John Lopez, Perry Young, Burt Glover, Bruce, 1932- Mantell, Joe, 1920- Jenson, Roy, 1935- Ladd, Diane Bakalyan, Richard, 1931- Huston, John, 1906-1987 Paramount Pictures Corporationc2006, p1974., General, Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Chinatown Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Widescreen DVD collection.Summary Note: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
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-- Dead on arrival.[2004], p1950., Movie Classics Call No: DVD Fic D.O.A. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While on vacation in San Francisco, Frank Bigelow is poisoned by a deadly, slow-acting poison. Can he find his murderer before time runs out?.
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2012, p1944., General, Universal Pictures Call No: DVD Fic DoubleIn Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Universal legacy series.Summary Note: Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
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-- Film noir classic collection.[2007]., General, Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Film Noir 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Film noir classic collection double feature.Summary Note: They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
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2007., General, Turner Entertainment Co. : distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Film Noir 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Film noir classic collection double feature.Summary Note: Where danger lives: Jeff Cameron is a young intern at the beginning of his career who links his destiny to that of a patient who is brought to to San Francisco General Hospital after a suicide attempt. Jeff dumps the secure, rather plain nurse Julie, for the passionate but perplexing Margo. Confused and caught up in Margo's deceptions, Jeff loses his sense of reality and finds himself fleeing with her for the Mexican border.
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2005, p1948., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Key Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
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2004., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Laura Edition: Full frame ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Fox film noir Volume: 1.Summary Note: A detective is hired to find out who killed a Park Avenue society beauty. Soon, he falls in love with her picture.
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-- Maltese Falcon.c2006., General, Warner Home Video Call No: NEW DVD Fic Maltese Edition: Three-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this 1941 film, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the "Maltese Falcon," a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. (This 1941 film comes with the 1931 version and with the film Satan Met a Lady.) .
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1996., General, MGM Call No: DVD Fic Mulholland F Edition: Deluxe letter-box edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: What begins as a simple murder case, turns into a politically embroiled tug of war. Several clues seem to lead towards a restricted government post in the Nevada desert where nuclear bombs are being tested for military use. Includes original theatrical trailer.
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1997., Video Images Call No: DVD Fic OpenSe Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Newlyweds come to visit an old friend of the groom, but find him missing and later his body turns up. As they investigate what happened to him, they encounter brewing hatred in the neighborhood.
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-- Life at stake2007., General, Alpha Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Please Edition: Film noir double feature. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Please murder me: A lawyer wins an a acquittal for his client, a woman accused of murder. After the verdict, he finds out that she indeed did commit the murder and manipulated him to win her acquittal. Guilt-ridden, and knowing that she can't be tried again for the murder, he devises a plan to bring her to justice. -- http://imdb.com.
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c2004, p1946., General, Turner Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Postman Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
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-- patch of blue[2009]., Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: BLK DVD Fic Sidney Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A patch of blue: A blind girl from an abusive family does not know that the Good Samaritan helping her learn simple task like how to use a pay phone is black. A landmark of social-conscience filmaking.
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-- Frank Miller's Sin City.2012., Adult, Lionsgate Call No: DVD Fic Sin Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of intertwined stories stemming from corruption, revenge and the criminal underworld.
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2002, 1950., Adult, Paramount Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Sunset Edition: Special collector's ed. Full screen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2000., Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic Touch Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.