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1. End of the
Road |
Aram Avakian |
1970
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Filmed before Easy Rider but released afterwards, End
of the Road has |
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1. Seize the
Day |
Fielder Cook |
1986
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Robin Williams plays
Tommy Wilhelm in this faithful adaptation of the |
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1. Ambrose
Bierce's Civil War Stories |
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This two-volume set
features An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert |
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2. American
Avant-Garde Films |
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A collection of five
experimental American films spanning 1906-1933; Edwin S. |
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5. La Jetee/An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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One of the most
challenging films ever made, Chris Marker's neo-science |
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6. The Man and
the Snake/The Return |
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Two tales by Ambrose
Bierce from the American Short Story collection which |
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7. An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Robert Enrico |
1962
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Award winning short
film based on a story by Ambrose Bierce about the |
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8. Parker
Adderson, Philosopher |
Arthur Barron |
1974
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Harris Yulin tops the
cast of this television version of the Ambrose Bierce story |
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1. ABC Stage
67: Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory |
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Geraldine Page and
Donnie Melvin star in this dramatic television |
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2. Beat the
Devil |
John Huston |
1953
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Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer
Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre top the cast of
this audacious, offbeat comedy about a motley group of petty thieves and
con artists hoping to grab some valuable uranium deposits. "The
birthplace of camp, with John Huston parodying the kind of material that
made him a star director (The Maltese Falcon) and Truman Capote
providing a ragged, day-by-day screenplay that left the actors stranded
(and in Humphrey Bogart's case, visibly annoyed)" (Dave Kehr, Chicago
Reader). |
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3. Breakfast at
Tiffany's |
Blake Edwards |
1961
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Audrey Hepburn is superb in
this dazzling romantic comedy based on Truman Capote's novella. Audrey
is the New York playgirl with a secret, determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire, who falls in love
with her next-door neighbor, George Peppard. |
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4. Breakfast at
Tiffany's: Collector's Edition |
Blake Edwards |
1961
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Audrey Hepburn and George
Peppard star in this classic film based on a story |
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5. The Glass
House |
Tom Gries |
1972
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Vic Morrow, Alan Alda, Billy
Dee Williams, Clu Galager and Dean Jagger star in this excellent
adaptation of Truman Capote's story of the hard truths of prison life.
Filmed on location, with real-life prisoners among the supporting cast,
this stark drama is considered one of the best made-for-television films
of its era. This edition includes all the original footage, some of
which was cut for subsequent airings following its initial broadcast. |
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7. The Grass
Harp |
Charles Matthau
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1996
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Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon,
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Mary Steenburgen, |
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8. Great
Writers: Truman Capote |
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A fascinating series of
informative and entertaining programs about the lives and works |
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9. In Cold
Blood
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Richard Brooks |
1967
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Based on Truman Capote's
novel, which in turn is based on an historical incident: the |
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10. In Cold
Blood |
Jonathan Kaplan
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1996
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ER's
Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts star as Dick Hickock and Perry Smith,
whose senseless slaughter of a Holcomb, Kansas, family
in 1959 was examined in Truman Capote's famous book. Sam Neill is
Detective Alvin Dewey, who breaks the case as the killers flee to Mexico
in this psychologically riveting, true story. Made for television. |
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13. Master
Misery |
Elizabeth Dimon
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1989
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Based on short story by
Truman Capote, this film involves a young woman |
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14. Murder by
Death |
Robert Moore |
1976
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Truman Capote is at the
center of this film featuring a great comic cast. Peter Falk, Alec
Guinness, David Niven, Dame Maggie Smith, Peter
Sellers, Eileen Brennan, Nancy Walker, James Coco and Elsa Lanchester
star as just a few of the detectives put in an untenable situation by an
eccentric millionaire. He has invited the world's best sleuths to solve
a murder for one million dollars. It's a great spoof of over-complicated
murder mysteries. Written by Neil Simon. |
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15. One
Christmas |
Tony Bill |
1994
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This touching holiday film,
based on Truman Capote's bittersweet story, |
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2. My Antonia
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Joseph Sargent |
1994
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Willa Cather's book has been
adapted for the screen in this sensitive film |
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3. O Pioneers!
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Glenn Jordan |
1991
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The astonishing Jessica Lange
stars in this handsome and impeccable |
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4. O' Pioneers!
(American Playhouse) |
Kirk Browning |
1990
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Willa Cather's novel of
immigrant life in turn-of-the-century Nebraska was brought |
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5. Paul's Case
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Lamont Johnson |
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Based on the short story by
Willa Cather, and starring Eric Roberts and Lindsay |
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1. Classic Literary Stories, Vol. 1 |
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All The Troubles of the
World, from a story by Isaac
Asimov, exploring the implications of a world served by an all-knowing, benevolent computer, and The Bear, from a story by William
Faulkner, based on the second of his short story versions in which a boy
confronts the legend and finds the truth of an old bear. 37 mins.
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2. Classic Literary Stories, Vol. 2 |
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The Cash of Amontillado, based on a story by
Edgar Allan Poe, one of the masterpieces of horror fiction, and The
Necklace,
based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, in which the borrowed
necklace is lost, and the couple must mortgage the last ten years of
their life. 40 mins.
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3.
Classic Literary Stories, Vol. 3
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The Coup de Grace, based on a short story
by Ambrose Bierce, as a Union soldier searches for his childhood friend
amid the scattered dead and wounded, and Bierce's An
Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge, the great brooding story of a man's
life going before him shortly before his execution. 19 mins.
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1.
Chingachgook, The Great Snake |
Richard
Groschopp |
1967
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James Fenimore Cooper's The
Deerslayer was the basis for this German western with more
historical truth than the vast majority of Hollywood westerns made up to that point. As the
Hurons fight alongside French colonists and the Delaware aid English
troops, a young Delaware warrior comes to the realization that the white
men intend to expel and exterminate the Indians in the region. In German
with English subtitles. |
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2. The
Deerslayer |
Arthur Wellin |
1920
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Bela Lugosi is featured as a
Native American in this silent adaptation of James |
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3. James
Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales: I & II:James Fenimore
Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Part I |
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"The true American
myth"--D.H. Lawrence. PBS's authentic adaptation of Leatherstocking
Tales (I & II): Deerslayer, Pathfinder, Last of the Mohicans,
Pioneers, and Prairie. Natty Bumpo (Hawkeye) and Chingachgook, Delaware
chief, bring alive the early 1700s, when Americans, French and Huron
were fighting for the vast, uncharted wilderness. |
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4. James
Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales: I & II:James Fenimore
Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Part II |
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"The true American
myth"--D.H. Lawrence. PBS's authentic adaptation of Leatherstocking
Tales (I & II): Deerslayer, Pathfinder, Last of the Mohicans, Pioneers,
and Prairie. Natty Bumpo (Hawkeye) and Chingachgook, Delaware chief,
bring alive the early 1700s, when Americans, French and Huron were
fighting for the vast, uncharted wilderness. |
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5. The Last
Tomahawk |
Harald Reinl |
1965
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This West German/Italian
production is a colorful and action-packed |
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6. The Last of
the Mohicans |
Maurice
Tourneur/Clarence
Brown |
1920
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This silent adaptation of
James Fenimore Cooper's novel is set in colonial |
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7. The Last of
the Mohicans |
Ford Beebe/B.
Reeves Eason
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1932
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All the excitement and
memorable characters of James Fenimore Cooper's |
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8. The Last of
the Mohicans |
George B. Seitz
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1936
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In 1757, colonial America is
being torn apart by the French and Indian War. When the daughter of a
British General is captured, Hawkeye,
played by Randolph Scott, is set in action by his desire to free the
woman he loves. Based on James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel. |
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9. The Last of
the Mohicans (1985) |
James L. Conway
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1985
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James Fenimore Cooper's
classic tale of friendship and adventure during the French and Indian
War is given a sturdy re-telling in
an above average made-for-tv version. It stars Steve Forrest as Hawkeye
and features Andrew Prine, Ned Romero and Robert Tessier in this rousing
tale of Colonial America. |
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10. The Last of
the Mohicans (1992) |
Michael Mann |
1992
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Michael Mann's impassioned
adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel about the French-Indian War
stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye, the
adopted son of the Mohicans; Madeleine Stowe is the beautiful daughter
of a British colonel. |
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3. Deliverance
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John Boorman |
1972
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Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,
Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty spend a weekend in the wilds canoeing and
trying to avoid inbred, hostile mountain folk
in Georgia. Based on the novel by James Dickey, this wilderness
nightmare chills to the bone. With Bill McKinney and Herbert Coward. |
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6. Whispers on
the Wind |
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Focusing on the distinct
voices of our poetic heritage, this is a |
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2. Carrie
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William Wyler |
1952
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Laurence Olivier and Jennifer
Jones star in this story of a middle-aged man who risks his marriage and
wealth for the love of young beauty.
Based on Theodore Dreiser's famous satirical novel, Sister Carrie.
"Graced by one of Olivier's finest screen performances"
(Pauline Kael). |
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4. Eminent
Scholars Series, Introduction to Theodore Dreiser's Ficti
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Distinguished educators and
critics in an organized syllabus of documented lectures on modern
American literature. Comes complete with
study guide. Each tape is 45 minutes. |
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5. Eminent
Scholars Series, Understanding Dreiser's Sister Carrie
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Distinguished educators and
critics in an organized syllabus of documented lectures on modern
American literature. Comes complete with study guide. Each tape
is 45 minutes. |
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6. A Place in
the Sun |
George Stevens |
1951
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Based on Theodore Dreiser's An
American Tragedy, this drama features strong performances from
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters. Clift is the
poor boy driven by the lure of wealth, with his success threatened by
complications from his simultaneous affairs with factory girl Winters
and socialite Taylor. Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best
Director, Screenplay, Music, and Cinematography. Selected for the
National Film Registry in 1991. |
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1. The Devil Is
a Woman |
Josef von
Sternberg |
1935
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In turn-of-the-century Spain,
carnival week becomes the setting for a deadly duel when two longtime
friends fall under the spell of a beautiful,
sly seductress (Marlene Dietrich), who ends up torturing them both.
Dietrich is fabulous as a femme fatale in this tale of decadent
romanticism in a film which is one of the high points of von Sternberg's
career--an amazing integration of image into a stylized visual rhythm.
With Cesar Romero and Lionel Atwill, based on a novel by Piere Louys,
with a script by von Sternberg, John dos Passos and S.K. Winston, and
cinematography by von Sternberg and Lucien Ballard. |
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2. Eminent
Scholars Series, Introduction to John Dos Passos' Fiction
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Distinguished educators and
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American literature. Comes complete with study
guide. Each tape is 45 minutes. |
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3. Eminent
Scholars Series, Understanding Dos Passos' U.S.A.
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Distinguished educators and
critics in an organized syllabus of documented lectures on modern
American literature. Comes complete with study
guide. Each tape is 45 minutes. |
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4. Ralph
Ellison: The Self-Taught Writer |
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Ralph Ellison's struggle with
poverty and segregation as a child shaped his character. Ultimately he
rose to world fame with his most popular
and insightful novel, The Invisible Man. 30 mins. |
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