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Field of dreams
by Phil Alden Robinson
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33 editions published between 1989 and 2012 in English and German and held by 3,678 WorldCat member libraries worldwide If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life
From here to eternity
by Fred Zinnemann
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70 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 3,062 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Judgment at Nuremberg
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23 editions published between 1961 and 2007 in English and held by 2,270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career
Sweet smell of success
by Alexander Mackendrick
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29 editions published between 1957 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,652 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success"--Container
Elmer Gantry
by Richard Brooks
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32 editions published between 1959 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt
Local hero
by Bill Forsyth
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49 editions published between 1982 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland
Il gattopardo The leopard
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14 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,029 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version and special features
Separate but equal
by Sidney Poitier
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7 editions published between 1991 and 2003 in English and held by 1,019 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The year is 1950 ... and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains and buses ... even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal ... and the tension has reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by whiteschool officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins ... putting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country
Birdman of Alcatraz the story of a real and living man--
by John Frankenheimer
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23 editions published between 1962 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The true story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
by Kirk Douglas
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30 editions published between 1956 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 924 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Wyatt Earp and John "Doc" Holliday team up to rid Tombstone, Arizona of the murderous Clanton gang
Run silent, run deep
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19 editions published between 1958 and 2006 in English and Multiple languages and held by 917 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet
Ernest Hemingway's The killers
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10 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and held by 892 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead
Atlantic City
by Louis Malle
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26 editions published between 1980 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City. DVD
Seven days in May
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16 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in English and held by 875 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a disaster?" -- Container
The professionals
by Richard Brooks
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19 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 817 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Soldier of fortune Burt Lancaster leads a rugged team of mercenaries to rescue a beautiful woman who has been kidnapped by Mexican revolutionary Captain Rasa (Jack Palance)
Sorry, wrong number
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6 editions published between 1984 and 2003 in English and held by 815 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered
The rose tattoo
by Daniel Mann
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8 editions published between 1955 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this troubling time
Come back, little Sheba
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9 editions published between 1952 and 2005 in English and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous Marie arousing his baser instincts
The Rainmaker
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9 editions published between 1956 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 674 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Under the spell of a wandering charlatan named Starbuck, a lonely ranch girl blossoms into full womanhood
Separate tables
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11 editions published between 1958 and 2005 in English and Multiple languages and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England more
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Lancaster 1913-1994
Lancaster, Burton Stephen.
Lancaster, Burton Stephen, 1913-1994
Lankaster, Bert, 1913-1994
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French (18) German (12) Italian (9) Multiple languages (9) Spanish (4) Russian (1) Dutch (1) Covers
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