Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4+4294941266&No=20 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349171 Mia... lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mias adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mothers new boyfriend... enters the picture--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208691 When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1091645 The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670779 In a Japanese prison camp on Java in 1942, two British officers, John Lawrence and Jack Celliers, encounter camp commander Yonoi and his sergeant Hara. Things had been going pretty well, until charismatic, rebellious Celliers arrived. Yonoi is a devotee of the samurai ideal; neither he nor Hara can understand the stoic way in which the British prisoners accept their situation of defeat. Lawrence speaks Japanese, and ceaselessly tries to mediate between the prisoners and their overseers, translating both the words and the values of the two races. Celliers attitude, however, is more comprehensible to Yonoi. He and Celliers arrive at a sort of dtente, based on an admiration for the other, but this eventually turns into a contest of wills as the camps carefully nurtured equilibrium is destroyed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113871 After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1379745 Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208748 A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=884372 Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, uneducated, and illegal immigrants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349052 An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York-honed personas, the two dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto. All captured in a delicate, but artful detachment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349054 Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968061 Georges Danton, the popular revolutionary leader, returns to Paris at a time when the new Republic is in disarray. Robespierre and his allies have set up a monstrous dictatorship, beginning the infamous Reign of Terror. Danton pleads with the people for an end to the bloodshed which violates the spirit of their revolution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968183 U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. Memories inspire him to take up, after initially refusing, to take on the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a prophetic gift. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729407 Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208723 The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montss scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696811 David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, clashes with his coach, who tries to temper the upstarts narcissistic drive for glory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431878 An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978827 X attempts to convince A that they met last year in this same hotel (or maybe it was in a different one). They loved each other, emotionally and physically. She agrees to elope with him and get away from M, her husband (or lover). At the last moment, she refuses (for whatever reason) and asked for a one year postponement. Now, the year has passed and X has come to their agreed rendezvous to take her away. A claims she does not recognize X and does not remember any agreement between them. At first, X is surprised, and he recounts conversations the two of them had, supporting details, relating scenes convincingly. A persists in not remembering, even though X produces a photograph of her as a proof of his claim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1229214 The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive teleplays constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to all of America--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208684 Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064883 In Northern Irelands Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British governments refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624269 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978707 World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie Fingers Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, hes forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579855 Paula, a leftist writer, goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cit when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978890 Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country, he is actually hiding in the basement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1017930 Junon is the matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. The Vuillards shared history of physical and mental illness, estrangement, self harm, and loss doesnt lead itself to the idea of a cheerful holiday season. Hopefully the Christmastime reunion, a scheme concocted by three of the youngest family members, will finally bring peace to their family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579854 Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001450 Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous, adulterous affair between the British Royal Navy officer and the renowned beauty, Emma begins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968324 Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Mara Jos, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=830405 Nino is an auto-factory foreman who takes his proper, modern wife and two blonde daughters from industrial Milan to the antiquated, rural Sicily to visit his family and get back in touch with his roots. Nino gets more than he bargained for when he discovers some harsh truths about his ancestors and himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=964570 After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=813179 The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821864 Told in three parts, a mysterious incident in the Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, eventually threatening a full-blown civil war. A silent young monk offers protection to an ethnic Albanian girl who is suspected of murder. A London photojournalist who is pregnant, needs to deal with her estranged husband and desires a permanence with her lover. Her lover is a prize-winning Macedonian photographer, just back from Bosnia, who finds himself changed by the violence. Linked by events and explores the uncompromising nature of war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968184 A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208751 Northern England, the early 1960s. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weavers, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation. His situation is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821867 This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddins mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773197 Antonio Gaud designed some of the worlds most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks. Takes viewers on a tour of Gauds truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821879 In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743380 Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The threepenny opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. With a palpable evocation of corruption and dread, set to Weills irresistible score, The threepenny opera remains a benchmark of early sound cinema. -- container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1314318 In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821889 The daughter of a rich businessman falls for her fathers servant, and a battle of sexes and classes ensues. Bonus features includes interviews, video essay, and a booklet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=985711 Offbeat, influential road story about a man and woman on the lam in southern France. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=813047 When a safari hunting ivory offends an African tribe, they are captured and tortured. One man is released without weapons or clothing, to be hunted in a life or death race. Includes essay booklet; interviews; and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734681 A dancers world: Martha Graham discusses the dancer as a creative artist, as members of her dance company illustrate her theories in a dance choreographed by Miss Graham. Woven into the movements of the dance are all the basic techniques required by the modern dancer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726796 An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boys war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729808 Two French beggars on their way to Spains holy city of Santiago de Compostela meet stigmatic children, crucified nuns, and others on their pilgrimage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580158 Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=686629 Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653881 A sixteen-year-old Parisian girl embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=669609 Don Juan-ish yuppie Toms Toms spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he cant keep their names straight. That is until one spurned nurse gives him a taste of his own medicine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=768662 Sensitively recreating the trials of Truffauts own childhood, portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623075 Viridiana, who is about to become a nun, does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968027 Spy networks gather information for the clans supporting and opposing the shogunate.--Www.kitparker.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=585176 Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton, Maxs hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy, Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. Riton gets kidnapped by a mob boss in the hopes that there will be an exchange for the money, but nothing turns out as anyone has it planned. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128329 In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579853 Volunteering as a comfort woman on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Naritas direct subordinate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=555417 When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, want to see him brought down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978742 The story of an interracial romance and the obstacles it puts on family relationships. When appearing on Jean Shepherds radio program Night People, Cassevetes mentioned the improvisation work he had done with his acting class, and asked for funding to film it. When listeners actually sent in money, he worked up a script based on the classwork, and with additional funding filmed his story of three siblings, two of whom can pass as white. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=660679 A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=555415 The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with the biggest budget in the history of Hollywood, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into one of the highest-grossing films of all time http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1145349 Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscars mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscars early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd household becomes the childrens refuge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1145351 Chronicles the methods of one of cinemas luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=667729 Offbeat homage to Hollywood musicals finds a stripper rousing her lovers jealousy by seducing his best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1145350 Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscars mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscars early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable, but befriend a local Jewish merchant whose odd household becomes the childrens refuge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020579 Powerful story of the disintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584164 In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. When he is asked to assist a troubled parishioner with his debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can offer nothing but his own uncertainty.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584165 The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422009 Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=422016 Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434763 The famous Dr. Edwardes takes over as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum and finds himself attracted to Dr. Constance Petersen, but she soon realizes he is a paranoid amnesiac imposter and tries to cure him while finding out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433067 When Veronicas lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430786 A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427200 Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a mans murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432131 Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432101 A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821870 After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African village is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife, and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid of the evil ones in his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427204 A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nave snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=416376 A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that hes loved her all along. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492855 Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1349302 In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432132 An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434740 In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Includes theatrical trailer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=432935 A young prostitute who works in the streets of Rome is continually deceived by men who claim to love her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434746 A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=429774 A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427206 The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=424107 British comedy thriller about a racketeer who attempts to transform the London dockyards into a potential Olympics site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431618 A landmark film in early sound production this is a left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom works his way up from salesman to factory owner. He oversees a highly mechanised operation where the workers are reduced to mere automatons. Blackmailed over his past, he joins up with his old cellmate, and the pair take to the road as tramps. Frequently acknowledged as the inspiration for Chaplins Modern times http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656977 Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholms outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.