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61) Hard Luck
Pub. Date
1921.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
62) The Oscar
Pub. Date
1966.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Oscar night. The crowd cheers Frankie Fane for the top award. Not far from him, sits the actor's best friend who knows that fame has been achieved by cynical manipulation of past events. Frankie deliberately leaked true stories about his disreputable life on the basis that they were falsehoods spread by his opponents. He hopes that the subsequent wave of public sympathy will sweep him to the Oscar... Nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume...
63) Palmy Days
Pub. Date
1931.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (77 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
64) Seven Chances
Pub. Date
1925.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o’clock that evening he will inherit {dollar}7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish. *"a work of relentless hilarity and visual invention of another order, highlighted by a majestic chase scene.."...
65) Save the Tiger
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. Winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon) and nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Gilford) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting...
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The glorious epic style of Cecil B. DeMille is exemplified in this story of the Bible's legendary strongman and the woman who seduces and betrays him. Victor Mature is the classic Samson, muscular and fearless in his barehanded battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, his struggle with a giant, and the spectacular Old Testament climax where he pulls down the pagan temple. The enormous cast and the splendor of...
67) The Scarecrow
Pub. Date
1920.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (19 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
68) Cops
Pub. Date
1922.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
69) Almost a Bride
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A teenage girl named Corliss (Shirley Temple) who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way around the town in this classic comedy.
70) Strike Me Pink
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
71) The Intruder
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
73) Elmer Gantry
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (146 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
When traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, he converts to evangelism. Joining forces with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing oratories that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) reappears, Gantry is forced to confront long-buried secrets that will make his "saintly" life a Hell...
Pub. Date
1923.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, while the atheist brother's breaking of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leads to tragedy. This is the first film in Cecil B. DeMille's biblical trilogy.
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Frank Pierson's energetic and ambitious film KING OF THE GYPSIES is a fascinating saga of three generations of a violent Romani family. Eric Roberts makes an impressive screen debut as Dave, grandson of the aging King Zharko, who is chosen by him to lead the clan at his death. Dave's only inclination is to join the American mainstream, but he knows that the mantle of Romani power cannot be taken lightly or denied. Based on the best-selling non-fiction...
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Starring studio-era legends Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, IT STARTED IN NAPLES follows an American lawyer who travels to the Italian city to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, leaving their son Marrietto in the guardianship of an aunt he hardly knows. Though the two share a mutual suspicion towards one another at first, they eventually...
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Comedy legend Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The "Jekyll and Hyde" game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious...
78) Misty
Pub. Date
1961.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on Marguerite Henry's award-winning novel, this heartwarming drama centers on Paul and his sister, Maureen, who set out to catch a beautiful, elusive mare called Phantom during Chincoteague Island's annual Pony Penning event.
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Peter Churchman and his crew spend a long time robbing German banks to get enough money to restore a French cathedral they bombed inadvertently during WW II. Churchman then moves to a Spanish village where he leads a peaceful life, until a former accomplice pays a visit to persuade him to return to his bank-robbing skills, under threat of blackmail. Churchman sets about robbing a bank during Pamplona's famed Festival of San Fermin.
80) Guys and Dolls
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (150 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. **Academy Award** nominee.
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