Roddy McDowall
Publisher
Paramount Home Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A gambler runs a card game in a small western town. One night an amateur tries to cheat and is hung by the other players. The gambler leaves town but comes back after hearing the other players are being murdered, all by hanging
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Splendor in the grass: Warren Beatty made his film debut in this story of a girl (Natalie Wood) whose love for a local boy and pressure to be a "good girl" from her parents drives her to madness. The film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay
Gypsy: The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother
Sex and the single girl: A sex farce very loosely based on Sex and the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After crash-landing on an uncharted planet, astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Soon, Taylor's life depends on the kindness of the chimpanzee scientists Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) and his escape to the Forbidden Zone, where he uncovers an earth-shattering secret that may hold the key to his own destiny
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century-a 1976 bank heist accomplished, as a note left in the empty vault said, "Without guns, without violence, without hate". He and his 20 men had dug a 25 foot tunnel from the city sewer system into the back, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine and clearing out a total of $8 to $10 million in gold, jewelry, gems and cash reserves. Tracked down and captured, Spaggiari
...8) Fear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor James Lowry didn't believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning...
Author
Language
English
Description
If he had been just another married man, and she a beautiful woman- it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president. Will this dangerous liaison change the course of history? Matthew Underwood- former anchorman and now U.S. President- is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of the tiny country of Lampang. After they fall in love, Underwood becomes mired in Lampang's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Renegades with telekinetic and telepathic abilities, " scanners" know your innermost secrets. They see through your own eyes, and they kill by thought. David Ketchum has no idea about scanners- until the night he saves a young girl's life by thinking a gunman to his horrific death. And now Commander Wayne Forrester has plans for young David. Forrester wants to rule America with a secret army of drugged, zombie...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Marlene Dietrich was an icon who embodied glamour and sophistication for audiences around the globe. In a grand and sweeping biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on this singular star, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth. Based on six years of meticulous research and hundreds of interviews- including conversations with Dietrich-...
12) Billy: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Every parent's worst fear: A young child is kidnapped by a deranged misfit. When Barton Royal finds Billy at a video arcade, it' s a dream come true for Barton, but a terrifying nightmare for Billy. A shocking look into the dark soul of a psychopath, this chilling tale will leave listeners breathless.
Author
Language
English
Description
As big as Star Wars. As desperate as Hunger Games. A thousand years in the future, an alien empire has overrun the planet and the human race has become an endangered species. Now all that stands between mankind and total extinction is a courageous young man determined to rally the scattered tribes of his species to take on the technologically advanced oppressors. It's one of the bestselling sci-fi novels of all time-nonstop action, adventure and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1895, teenager Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto to become Samuel Goldwyn, one of the most acclaimed producers in Hollywood history. Among Goldwyn' s films are such classics as The Pride of the Yankees, Wuthering Heights, and The Bishop' s Wife - all famous for conveying the " Goldwyn Touch." In this detailed biography, acclaimed author A. Scott Berg recounts the fascinating life of one of the most colorful personalities of Hollywood' s Golden...
Author
Language
English
Description
One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century.
A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut - from the inside - with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars...
16) Cutting Class
Author
Language
English
Description
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
17) The Grass Harp
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet memoir, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the deep south in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick, played by Edward Furlong ("American History X," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"), finds himself living in a small town with his two aunts, Dolly, played by Academy Award-nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Piper Laurie ("Carrie," TV's...
18) Five Card Stud
Author
Language
English
Description
A stranger is caught cheating in a game of five-card stud in a Rincon, Colorado saloon in 1880. Van Morgan (Dean Martin) unsuccessfully tries to save the gambler's life as the other five players lynch the cheat. Meanwhile, a gold rush has brought a group of outsiders to Rincon, like gun-toting preacher Jonathan Rudd (Robert Mitchum) and Lily Langford (Inger Stevens), with her collection of beautiful lady "barbers." When two townspeople are murdered,...
19) Hello Down There
Author
Language
English
Description
This 1969 screwball comedy involves a scientist who is given the assignment of spending one month in a simulated underwater home. Once he brings his family around to the idea, underwater mayhem takes over. Look fast for an early appearance by Richard Dreyfuss.