John Travolta
Author
Series
Hollywood's Stories volume 8
Description
John Travolta began his career as Vinny on "Welcome Back Kotter." The legend then went on to star in some of Hollywood's greatest success stories. Unfortunately, with success often follows scrutiny and scandal, and both found Travolta in spades. Throughout it all, though, and after more than four decades, Travolta continues a career that has experienced both the zeniths and the nadirs of fame.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A gang of armed professionals hijack a New York subway train somewhere outside the Pelham station threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met. Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue is made, Detective Anthony Piscotti (Edward James Olmos) must shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains (Vincent D'Onofrio) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or...
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
STAYING ALIVE takes Saturday Night Fever’s Tony Manero out of Brooklyn to Broadway. As a wannabe dancer struggling to make it on the stage, John Travolta is at his sexy, sizzling best. Girl-next-door Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance, Dirty Dancing) and vampy Finola Hughes (General Hospital, All My Children) compete for Tony’s heart. Co-written and directed by superstar Sylvester Stallone, STAYING ALIVE features an electrifying Bee Gees soundtrack and...
4) Blow Out
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
John Travolta ("Get Shorty") gives an outstanding performance as a B-movie sound-effects editor who inadvertently records the car crash of a presidential hopeful. But the more he listens to his recording, the more he comes to believe that the accident was hardly that, but, rather, an act of political assassination. With the help of an eyewitness (Nancy Allen, "RoboCop"), Travolta attempts to unravel the web that has been unwittingly spun around him...
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
There’s the right way, the wrong way and the Army way. But there’s no way military investigator Paul Brenner is going to participate in a cover-up when Fort MacCallum officials try to hide the motive behind the murder of a beautiful female officer.
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After losing his wife to a drug overdose, a man addicted to both drinking and gambling struggles to raise his ten-year-old daughter. Together they hit the road for a new start in California, followed by the daughter's adopted dog.
7) The forger
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
8) Mob land
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-town sheriff must protect his citizens when the New Orleans mafia comes to town seeking revenge for the robbery of one of their illegal drug-making labs.
10) Wild Hogs
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four middle-aged men decide to take a motorcycle road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. These "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink, not knowing that the bar belongs to the Del Fuegos, a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, Woody, one the the Hogs decides to steal the bike back. Woody cuts the fuel...
11) Pulp fiction
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
12) Michael
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.