John Frankenheimer
1) 52 pick-up
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Life is good for Los Angeles entrepreneur Harry Mitchell, great business, beautiful home and a gorgeous wife. Just when he thinks he'll land a seat n the city council, Harry's life suddenly spins out of control when a trio of pornographers, shows up with a video of Harry in bed with his mistress.
3) Ronin
Language
English
Description
In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emerged -- free-agent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin, " are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Upon release from a stint in prison, Rudy impulsively decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to make time with Nick's beautiful penpal Ashley. But Rudy's ruse blows up when he realizes that Ashley was doublecrossing Nick...and now he's inescapably part of an armed robbery plot being hatched by her evil brother.
5) Seconds
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity, but after he begins his new life, but he soon realizes that his rebirth comes at a terrible price.
7) The train
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
Series
Criterion collection volume 803
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
11) The gypsy moths
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
13) George Wallace
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Two-disc special edition.
Language
English
Description
George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Features television plays from 1953-1958 and includes Marty (1953); Patterns (1955); No Time for Sergeants (1955); A Wind From the South (1955); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956); Bang the Drum Slowly (1956); The Comedian (1957); and Days of Wine and Roses (1958).
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Moreau is brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits the island laboratory he discovers experiments turning animal life forms into human-like beasts. The beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind.
16) Andersonville
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War explodes, air thick with musket fire, soil drenched with the blood of kinsmen, bodies piling up like cords of wood. In the madness and fury, a small group of Union soldiers fall into the hands of the Confederate army. Overnight, they find themselves herded aboard a prison train bound for the deepest regions of the South, to a slice of Hell carved out of the Georgia clay known as Andersonville. A moving drama that tells the most tragic...
17) Black Sunday
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Black September terrorist group attempts to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the President of the United States in attendance.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Noel Holcroft has inherited an awesome legacy. His father, Hitler's financial wizard, and two other prominent Nazis had re-routed staggering sums of money into a Swiss bank. Supposedly the money was to relieve the suffering of Holocaust victims a generation later. The three Nazis' own children would administer the fund. Now after 40 years, Holcroft must find the other two offspring as the signatures of all three are needed to release the funds.
19) The Train
Pub. Date
℗1999, ©1964.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train.
20) The Train
Pub. Date
[200?][1964]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train.
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