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Valentino mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Struggling to keep his run-down movie palace from being condemned, film archivist Valentino attends a gala party held in memory of Greta Garbo and learns about a letter revealing the icon's scandalous affair, a situation that is complicated by a blackmailer's untimely murder.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist. In the surreal world of Hollywood filmdom truth is often stranger than celluloid fiction. When Valentino buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement, he's not really surprised. But he's staggered by a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing...
5) Alive!
Author
Series
Valentino mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous 1930s Hollywood icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist. In the surreal world of Hollywood filmdom truth is often stranger than celluloid fiction. When Valentino buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement, he's not really surprised. But he's staggered by a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The LAPD wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing...
Author
Series
Victorian mansion flower shop mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"This series from Annie's Fiction features a florist living on Orcas Island in Puget Sound. Kaylee Bleu is asked to arrange flowers for a Hitchcock-style thriller being filmed on the island. She is soon embroiled in solving the mysterious deaths of the director's former wives, while trying to prevent a young actress from meeting the same fate"--Author's website.
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"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guz̀mn, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Oǔdraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The great escape: A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape ; Junior Bonner: With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father....
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Austin Powers, international man of mystery: Secret agent Austin Powers is thawed back into action after being frozen for thirty years. The time-warped swinger has to battle again with his archenemy Dr. Evil and stop his plot to control the world.
Austin Powers: the spy who shagged me: Dr. Evil travels back to 1969 and steals Austin's "mojo". Now Austin must return to the 60's to recover his mojo and stop his arch enemy from liquidating the world.
Austin...
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Seeking revenge against the people who killed him, Freddy Krueger haunts the dreams of teenagers, and when he kills them in their sleep they are dead in real life; Freddy tries to possess a teenage boy so he can continue his killing in the real world; Freddy haunts the dreams of teenagers at a mental hospital, but Nancy helps the teens to discover they power they hold in their dreams to fight him; Kristen passes on her power of pulling people into...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Training day: a rookie narcotics cop learns the hard way that even good cops can go very, very bad.
John Q: Police have surrounded the ER where a desperate man holds hostages and demands that the hospital do what his HMO refuses to allow, provide an operation for his critically ill son.
Fallen: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Crocodile Dundee: Paul Hogan's hilarious, endearing performance made "Crocodile" Dundee the biggest box-office comedy smash of 1986 as a free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands and drinks mere mortals under the table. But he's about to face the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York gangsters are pursuing Sue, so for...
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The lady vanishes: During a transcontinental train trip in Europe, a young woman is alarmed to discover a passenger has disappeared ; The farmer's wife: (silent) A lonely widowed farmer is looking for a new bride, not realizing the housekeeper helping him with his search is secretly in love with him ; The manxman: (silent) A romantic tale of intrigue involving a love triangle concerning three residents of the Isle of Man ; the Chaney vase: An elderly...
Series
James Bond blu-ray volume 2
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures filled with outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. James has a lethal determination to find himself infiltrating the Greek underworld and races against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines.
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