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The ten commandments
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2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 915 libraries worldwide To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt, Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him.
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5 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in English and held by 510 libraries worldwide Parody of college life with the fun-loving president of Huxley College wooing a floozie who is secretly trying to rig the big football game between Huxley and archrival Darwin U.
Make way for tomorrow
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3 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 510 libraries worldwide In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
The scarlet empress
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6 editions published between 1934 and 2001 in English and held by 503 libraries worldwide Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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7 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in English and held by 438 libraries worldwide Horror film about the cultured Dr. Jekyll who, as the result of an experiment he's conducted on himself, can change into the hideous Mr. Hyde.
Marlene Dietrich the glamour collection
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 423 libraries worldwide Morocco: A cabaret singer arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight, until she finally falls in love. Blonde Venus: An aspiring young actress gives up the stage to marry a scientist who becomes afflicted with radium poisoning. She returns to cabaret life and meets a wealthy playboy who gives her the money for her husband's treatment. The devil is a woman: At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both. The flame of New Orleans: An impoverished countess arrives in New Orleans with one thing in mind, to marry a wealthy man. Golden earrings: A Hungarian gypsy rescues a British intelligence officer and helps him to accomplish his mission.
Little Miss Marker
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1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 383 libraries worldwide Shirley Temple melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gamblers when she is left as an IOU or "marker" for debt.
Wings
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6 editions published between 1989 and 2002 in English and held by 380 libraries worldwide The story of two men who have gone to war and the girl they both leave behind.
Grass a nation's battle for life
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5 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 340 libraries worldwide A documentary in which Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison travel through Asia Minor and Iraq to reach a tribe of nomads in Iran known as the Bakhtyari. They follow the tribe on its forty-eight day trek across deserts, streams, and mountains to reach pasture for their flocks. These three people were the first Westerners to cross the Zardeh Kuh Pass and the first to make this migration with the tribes.
The public is never wrong; the autobiography of Adolph Zukor, with Dale Kramer
by Adolph Zukor
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7 editions published between 1953 and 1954 in English and held by 325 libraries worldwide
Mae West the glamour collection
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 315 libraries worldwide Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were enough to seal her fame and launch a legend. In her first film appearance, "Night after night," a successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. As the bold Tira in "I'm no angel," she works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. For "Goin' to town," West goes Western. Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich. She falls for--and pursues--an upper crust Englishman. This is followed by "Go west young man," where she plays Mavis Arden, a movie star stranded in the country. To stifle her boredom, she trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee" pairs West with a legend of similar stature, W.C. Fields. As Flower Belle Lee, she is rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, and run out of Little Bend. Surprisingly, things change very little when she arrives in Greasewood City to start over.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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4 editions published between 1991 and 2003 in English and held by 284 libraries worldwide Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
Easy living
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 244 libraries worldwide "Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 227 libraries worldwide Egypt, 48 B.C. Cleopatra is facing palace revolt in her kingdom. She decides to embrace the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Roman rule. When Caesar is led astray by Cleopatra and is killed, she transfers her affections to Marc Antony. She does all that she can to dazzle Marc on a barge fit for a king. But her trick may not work this time around. A web of royal deception and betrayal.
The best of jazz & blues
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 201 libraries worldwide "Musicals shorts, produced to merely fill out the film program, have in many cases acquired more value than the features they once supported. Filmed at the Paramount Studios in Astoria, Queens, these films offer unparalleled opportunities to see and hear great artists in action -- and sometimes present surprisingly gutsy subject matter via truly innovative film technique." -- Container.
The love parade
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2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 183 libraries worldwide The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Cleopatra
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3 editions published between 1934 and 2006 in English and held by 168 libraries worldwide "Claudette Colbert gives a stunning performance as the alluring Queen of the Nile in this colossal epic of passion and deception. Determined to exert her power over Julius Caesar, Cleopatra uses her beauty and wit to seduce the Roman leader into leaving his wife for her. After Caesar's downfall, Cleopatra turns her attention to the dashing Marc Antony. But as their passionate love affair threatens the peace of the empire, Cleopatra fights a desperate battle to hold onto her happiness and her throne." From container.
Classic Western round-up. Volume 1
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 160 libraries worldwide Journey back to the Old West and relive all the gunfights, barroom brawls and romance in these four classic Westerns.
Peter Pan
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1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 143 libraries worldwide "Betty Bronson stars as Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up, who charms Wendy and her brothers to fly with him to Never Never Land. On this island of dreams and magic, they struggle to rescue the Lost Boys from Captain Hook and his band of pirates, encountering along the way the delightful fairy Tinkerbell, a man-eating crocodile, and a band of valiant Indians"--Container.
The Vanishing American
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7 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in English and held by 137 libraries worldwide Indian warrior Nophate strives to maintain ancient and honorable customs among his people in the face of abuse and exploitation by whites in the early 20th century. more
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Actresses Adultery Bible films Catherine--II,--Empress of Russia,--1729-1796 Children's films Cleopatra,--Queen of Egypt,--d. 30 B.C Comedy films Comedy films Depressions Drama Egypt Elderly poor Exodus, The Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Film and video adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Films--for the hearing impaired Foreclosure Good and evil Historical films History Horror films Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) Kings and rulers Lawrence, Josephine,--1897?-1978 Man-woman relationships Married people Melodramas (Motion pictures) Middle East Moses--(Biblical leader) Motion pictures Parent and adult child Religious films Romantic comedy films Russia Separation (Psychology) Silent films Silent films Singers Ten commandments Triangles (Interpersonal relations) United States Video recordings for the hearing impaired Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Women Women--Conduct of life Zukor, Adolph,--1873-1976
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