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- Headed for a hearse / by Latimer, Jonathan,1906-1983,author.; Collins, Max Allan,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)354104;
"Robert Westland's date with thie executioner is just around the cor ner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap sending him to the electric chair. Framed for his wife's grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who's as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago's most brutal criminal element. Crane's got just six days to suss out the real killer; he sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters, aided by a lime squeezer, a quart of whiskey, a monkey wrench, a taxicab, a stopwatch, and a deep sea diver...but in 1930s Chicago, everyone's got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it's too late."--- Subjects: Fiction.; Murder;
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- They won't believe me [videorecording] / by Pichel, Irving,1891-1954film director(CARDINAL)751042; Latimer, Jonathan,1906-1983screenwriter; McDonell, Gordonscreenwriter; Harrison, Joan,1907-1994film producer(CARDINAL)824337; Young, Robert,1907-1998actor(CARDINAL)747686; Hayward, Susan,1917-1975actor(CARDINAL)505079; Johnson, Rita,1912-1965actor; Greer, Jane,1924-2001actor; Powers, Tomactor(CARDINAL)765394; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm)publisher(CARDINAL)344968;
Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Rita Johnson, Jane Greer, Tom Powers.The original RKO publicity tells the story: "When a man goes to the devil he usually takes a woman with him...this man took THREE!" Young plays a dirty rotten scoundrel who sponges off his wealthy wife, seduces and abandons another woman and runs off with a third. Returning home, Young plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leave him battling for his life. The role of faithless cad was a startling change of pace for Young, and he pulls it off brilliantly. Irving Pichel directed Jonathan Latimer's uncompromising script.Rating: Not rated.DVD-R, full screen (4x3 ; 1.37:1) presentation, Dolby Digital mono.- Subjects: Classics.; Feature films.; Film noir.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Trials (Murder); Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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- Copper Canyon [videorecording] / by Amfitheatrof, Daniele.; Bachelin, Franz.; Carey, Harry,Jr.,1921-2012.(CARDINAL)381817; Carey, Macdonald.(CARDINAL)718883; Dreier, Hans,1885-1966.; Epstein, Mel,1910-1994.; Farrow, John,1904-1963.(CARDINAL)763247; Freeman, Mona.; Head, Edith.(CARDINAL)169975; Lamarr, Hedy,1913-2000.(CARDINAL)183884; Lang, Charles B.; Latimer, Jonathan,1906-1983.; Milland, Ray.(CARDINAL)348268; Steele, Gile.; Warren, Eda.; Paramount Pictures Corporation.(CARDINAL)141482;
Director of photography, Charles B. Lang, Jr. ; art directors, Franz Bachelin, Hans Dreier ; editor, Eda Warren ; original music, Daniele Amfitheatrof ; costume designers, Edith Head, Gile Steele.Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, Harry Carey, Jr.In the early days after the Civil War, Johnny, a vaudeville sharpshooter, tries to outrun his past as a hero in the Confederate Army. But when some ex-Confederate miners need protection from Unionists and corrupt lawmen who run Copper Canyon, Johnny decides to fight for justice. Along the way he wins the heart of a local beauty.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby digital mono, Region 1 encoding.- Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western films.; Man-woman relationships; Miners; Sharpshooting (Military science); Unionists (United States Civil War);
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- Topper [videorecording] ; Topper returns / by Bennett, Constance,1904-1965.(CARDINAL)756358; Grant, Cary,1904-1986.(CARDINAL)712740; Young, Roland,1887-1953.; Blondell, Joan.; Landis, Carole,1919-1948.(CARDINAL)194603; Roach, Hal,1892-1992.; McLeod, Norman Z.,1898-1964.; Jevne, Jack.; Hatch, Eric,1901-1973(CARDINAL)216089; Moran, E. Edwin,1899-; Latimer, Jonathan,1906-1983.; Douglas, Gordon,1907-1993.(CARDINAL)528219; Del Ruth, Roy,1893-1961.; Carmichael, Hoagy,1899-1981.(CARDINAL)128417; Heymann, Werner Richard,1896-1961.; Smith, Thorne,1892-1934.Topper.; Film Classics.; Hallmark Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340738; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.(CARDINAL)150193; United Artists Corporation.(CARDINAL)715521;
Photography, Norbert Brodine (Topper & Topper returns) ; film editor, William Terhune (Topper), James Newcom (Topper returns) ; original music by Hoagy Charmichael (Topper), musical score by Werner R. Heymann (Topper returns).Topper: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young ; Topper returns: Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis.Dull and stodgy banker Cosmo Topper is spooked by ghosts. In Topper he finds himself the object of his deceased friends' desire to perform a good deed by getting him to loosen up and have some fun. In Topper returns, a beautiful young ghost enlists his help in catching a murderer.DVD; Dolby 2.0 and 1.0 mono.- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Comedy films.; Topper, Cosmo (Fictitious character); Bank employees; Ghost plays.; Benevolence; Inheritance and succession; Murder;
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- The big clock [videorecording] / by Anderson, Roland,art director.; Comer, Sam,set designer.; Corrigan, Lloyd,1900-1969,actor.; Dowd, Ross,set designer.; Dreier, Hans,1885-1966,art director.; Farrow, John,1904-1963,film director.(CARDINAL)763247; Head, Edith,costume designer.(CARDINAL)169975; Johnson, Rita,1912-1965,actor.; Lanchester, Elsa,1902-1986,actor.(CARDINAL)726499; Latimer, Jonathan,1906-1983,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)891768; Laughton, Charles,1899-1962,actor.(CARDINAL)133220; Letondal, Henri,1901-1955,actor.; Macready, George,1909-1973,actor.; Maibaum, Richard,film producer.; Milland, Ray,actor.(CARDINAL)348268; Morgan, Harry,1915-2011,actor.; Nozaki, Albert,1912-2003,art director.; O'Sullivan, Maureen,1911-1998,actor.(CARDINAL)864959; Orth, Frank,1880-1962,actor.; Riley, Elaine,1917-actor.; Seitz, John F.(John Francis),1892-1979,cinematographer.; Spencer, Douglas,1910-1960,actor.(CARDINAL)871079; Tobin, Dan,1909-1982,actor.; Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin,actor.(CARDINAL)842235; Van Zandt, Philip,actor.; Vermilyea, Harold,1889-1958,actor.; Warren, Eda,editor of moving image work.; Webb, Richard,1915-1993,actor.; Young, Victor,1900-1956,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)843998; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Fearing, Kenneth,1902-1961.Big clock.(CARDINAL)767598; Paramount Pictures, Inc.,production company.(CARDINAL)344903; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)318694;
Director of photography, John F. Seitz ; art direction, Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, and Albert Nozaki ; set decoration, Sam Comer and Ross Dowd ; music score, Victor Young ; editorial supervision, Eda Warren ; costumes, Edith Head.Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester, Harold Vermilyea, Dan Tobin, Henry Morgan, Richard Webb, Elaine Riley, Luis Van Rooten, Lloyd Corrigan, Frank Orth, Philip Van Zandt, Henri Letondal, Douglas Spencer."Hotshot crime magazine editor George Stroud inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress"--Container.Not rated by the MPAA.DVD, Fullscreen, region 1, NTSC; Dolby 2.0 mono.- Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film noir.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Murder; Periodical editors;
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