Arthur Kennedy
22) Boomerang
Series
Fox film noir volume 16
Language
English
Description
A prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder. Based on a true story.
23) Murder she said
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English
Description
Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling clues to a manor house inhabited by a quarrelsome family.
25) A summer place
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English
Description
An enduring favorite about desire and tumult at an elite Maine resort. Johnny Hunter is strong, handsome and unshakably devoted to 17-year-old pixiesh Molly, a woman-child struggling to cope with adult emotions. All of the adults are also romantically at odds. As they all discover, love will find a way. They've already found the locale: a summer place.
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English
Description
Stationed in Cairo in 1916, T. E. Lawrence languished in the mapmaking department of British Intelligence until he was asked to find and gather information on Prince Feisal, leader of the Arab Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence of Arabia chronicles his desert journey inspired by his first military success when he led a small contingent of Arabs against the Turkish stronghold of Aqaba.
27) High Sierra
Language
English
Description
A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side, a side that will ultimately be his downfall.
28) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Palmer and her husband Alan mysteriously have $60,000 literally dropped in their laps. The circumstances seem mighty suspicious to Alan, who wants to turn the money over to the police. But in a materialistic rapture, Jane won't let it go. She doesn't care where it came from, or what danger it might ensue. Enter Danny Fuller, who claims the money belongs to him. Let the games begin!
30) Anzio
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English
Description
" ... After landing with Allied troops in Anzio Italy in 1944, war correspondent Dick Ennis and buddy Corporal Rabinoff tell Anzio commander General Lesley that the road to Rome is wide open. But instead of heading to Rome, Lesley attempts to build a coastal stronghold, only to discover that the Germans have outflanked them by enclosing the Anzio beachhead ..."
33) Murder, she said
Series
Language
English
Description
"Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting a tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling...
34) Fantastic voyage
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Language
English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from a blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced, along with their craft, to microscope size, and to enter the bloodstream to save him.
35) High Sierra
Series
Criterion collection volume 1099
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Roy Earle, a career criminal plagued by his checkered past, longs for a simpler life, but after getting sprung on parole, he falls in with a band of thieves for one last heist in the Sierra Nevada. Marie, a fellow outcast also desperate to escape her past, [they] hurtle inexorably toward an unforgettable cliffside climax and a rendezvous with destiny"--Container.
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English
Description
Three escaped cons, led by the ruthless Glenn Griffin, force their way into a suburban home, intending to hide out while they await the arrival of an all-important package. But what should have been an overnight stay extends into a protracted hostage situation, pitting Glenn against the embattled family patriarch, Daniel Hilliard, a man with everything to lose.
38) Bright victory
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English
Description
During World War II, Sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by enemy fire and lands in a military hospital with African -American soldier Joe Morgan and attending nurse Judy Greene. Though he's engaged to a young woman back home, Larry finds himself falling for Judy. Meanwhile, his casual racism damages his friendship with Joe. On the long and painful road to recovery, Larry begins to realize how much he truly cares for Judy and how wrong he was to judge...
39) Nevada Smith
Series
Language
English
Description
A boy witnesses the murder of his parents at the hands of three men. He devotes his whole life to finding these men in order to kill them.
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English
Description
3 godathers. After discovering a dying woman and a newborn baby in the desert, three outlaws vow to look after the child.
She wore a yellow ribbon. Captain Nathan Brittles' mission to stop an imminent attack is complicated by a group of women to be evacuated.
Wagon master. A Mormon wagon train is guided by two drifters.
Cheyenne autumn. A cavalry officer sympathetic to the Cheyennes is tasked with bringing them back to their reservation.