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1) The thin man
Language
English
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The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
Another...
Series
Classic archive volume 36
Publisher
EMI Classics
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A film about Yehudi Menuhin's career, including his first steps into the limelight as a child, his development into a star violinist, expansion into jazz and Indian music, his close family ties, and his great humanity to those less fortunate than himself.
9) Les girls
Language
English
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Description
Music by Cole Porter, winner of Best Costume Design Oscar. An entertainer's memoir chronicling her cabaret days unleashes a talons and fact-baring litigation that proves girls will be girls.
Language
English
Description
This romantic drama is set during post-WWII high society Paris. Writer and war veteran Charles Wills returns to the Left Bank to reminisce about his life after the liberation of the City of Lights. There he meets wealthy American eccentric James Ellswirth and his daughters, Marian and the beautiful but frivolous Helen. Although Marion loves Charles, he marries Helen instead, and the two begin a family. Their happiness soon spirals into tragedy when...
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Language
English
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Description
Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul. Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Medici Arts
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"The great Israeli-born violinist Itzhak Perlman has already left a huge number of sound recordings of his interpretations, but it adds an extra dimension to be able to watch him execute, for instance, the brilliant spiccato bowing in Saint-Saens's Introduction et rondo capriccioso. A master of the French style through his teacher Ivan Galamian, Perlman at 25 is seen in the first full flush of his talent. Ten years later the mature soloist shows his...
14) Samson François
Series
Classic archive volume 19
Publisher
EMI Classics
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
15) Ivry Gitlis
Author
Series
Classic archive volume 50
Publisher
EMI Classics
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
None
20) Illegal
Language
English
Description
Illegal: Ambitious D.A. Victor Scott zealously prosecutes Ed Clary for a woman's murder. But as Clary walks to the electric chair, Scott receives evidence that exonerates the condemned man. Realizing that he's made a terrible mistake he tries to stop the execution, but is too late. Scott resigns as a prosecutor and enters private practice. He draws the attention of mob kingpin Frank Garland. Scott represents one of Garland's stooges on a murder rap...
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