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Gandhi (VHS). 187 min.

Videocassette release of the 1982 motion picture.

CAST: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen.

CREDITS: Production designer, Stuart Craig; editor, John Bloom; in charge of production, Terence A. Clegg; co-producer, Rani Dube; music, Ravi Shankar; orchestral score & additional music, George Fenton; directors of photography, Billy Williams, Ronnie Taylor; executive producer, Michael Stanley-Evans; written by John Briley; produced and directed by Richard Attenborough.

SUMMARY: Chronicles the life of Mahatma Ghandi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.

Ghosts of Mississippi (VHS & DVD). 131 min.

Videocassette release of 1996 motion pictures.

CAST: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods.

CREDITS: Produced and directed by Rob Reiner.

SUMMARY: The film features the final trial of the assassin of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Gideon's Trumpet (VHS & DVD). 105 min.

Based on the book by Anthony Lewis.
Originally broadcast as a production of Hallmark Hall of Fame on television in 1980.
Special DVD features: Insert with production notes by Anthony Lewis and cast filmographies.

CAST: Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, John Houseman, Fay Wray, Sam Jaffe, Dean Jagger.

CREDITS: Executive producer, John Houseman; producers, Robert H. Justman and David W. Rintels; screenplay, David W. Rintel; directed by Robert E. Collins; cinematography by Donald H. Birnkrant; editor, Frank Bracht; music, Joseph Weiss.

SUMMARY: Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he asks the court to appoint a lawyer for his defense because he cannot afford one, his request is denied. Acting as his own lawyer, Gideon is convicted and sent to jail. While in prison, he begins a hand-written campaign directed to the U.S. Supreme Court,contending that every defendant is entitled to legal representation. The Court agrees to hear Gideon's case, and, in a landmark decision, rules in his favor.

The Gingerbread Man (VHS). 115 min.

Videocassette release of the 1997 motion picture.
Based on an original story by John Grisham.

CAST: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Daryl Hannah, Robert Duvall, Tom Berenger.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Al Hayes; produced by Jeremy Tannenbaum; directed by Robert Altman; director of photography, Changwei Gu; editor, Geraldine Peroni; music, Mark Isham.

SUMMARY: Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case

Glengarry Glen Ross (VHS). 100 min.

Videocassette release of the 1992 motion picture.
Based on David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning play.

CAST: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce.

CREDITS: Screenplay, David Mamet; executive producer, Joseph Caracciola, Jr.; photography, Juan Ruiz Pryce; editor, Howard Smith; music, James Newton Howard.

SUMMARY: A powerful story set in the world of real estate. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

The Godfather DVD Collection. 12 hr., 10 min.

Based on the novel "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo.

CAST: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna.

CREDITS: Producers, Albert S. Ruddy (Godfather), Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather II, Godfather III); director, Francis Ford Coppola; Director of photography, Gordon Willis ; editors, Marc Laub et al. (Godfather), Barry Malkin et al. (Godfather II), Lisa Fruchtman et al. (Godfather III); original music, Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola (Godfather III); costume designer, Anna Hill Johnstone (Godfather), Theadora Van Runkle (Godfather II), Milena Canonero (Godfather III); production designer, Dean Tavoularis.

SUMMARY: Coppola paints a chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. He masterfully balances the story between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. The Godfather (175 min.) -- Disc 2-3. The Godfather, Part II (200 min.) -- Disc 4. The Godfather, Part III (170 min.) -- Disc 5. Bonus materials (ca. 180 min.)

The Good Mother (VHS). 104 min.

Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Sue Miller.

CAST: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Ralph Bellamy.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Michael Bortman; produced by Arnold Glimcher; directed by Leonard Nimoy.

SUMMARY: Discovering true passion for the first time in her life, Anna's life couldn't have been more perfect. But shocking charges against her force her to prove that she is a good mother.

Guilty as Sin (DVD). 107 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

CAST: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson.

CREDITS: Produced by Martin Ransohoff; written by Larry Cohen; directed by Sidney Lumet; director of photography, Andrzej Bartkowiak; film editor, Evan Lottman; music, Howard Shore.

SUMMARY: A criminal attorney who plays to win meets her match when she represents a playboy who is accused of murdering his wealthy wife.

Guilty by Suspicion (DVD). 105 min.

DVD release of the original Warner Bros. motion picture, released in 1988.

CAST: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker.

CREDITS: Producer, Arnon Milchan; director/writer, Irwin Winkler.

SUMMARY: Based on the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950's, Guilty by Suspicion tells the story of the destruction of the career of a director. All he has to do to revive his stalled career is testify against friends who are suspected of being Communists.

Having Wonderful Crime (VHS). 70 min.

Videocassette release of the 1944 motion picture.
Based on a story by Craig Rice.

CAST: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Howard J. Green, Stewart Sterling, Parke Levy; producer, Robert Fellows; director, Eddie Sutherland; photography, Frank Redman; music, Leigh Harline; editor, Gene Milford.

SUMMARY: A criminal lawyer is hooked into investigating the disappearance of a famous magician by his newlywed friends.

Heavens Fall (DVD). 105 min.

Originally produced in 2006 as motion picture.
Based on a true story.

CAST: Timothy Hutton, Anthony Mackie, Bill Sage, Azura Skye, James Tolkan, Bill Smitrovich, Maury Chaykin, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, David Strathairn.

CREDITS: Produced by Anna Marie Crovetti, Gloria Everett, and Wade W. Danielson; directed by Terry Green; written by Terry Green; director of photography, Paul Sanchez; edited by Suzy Elmiger; music by Tony Llorens.

SUMMARY: A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.

High Crimes (DVD). 115 min.

Based on the novel by Joseph Finder.
English, French or Spanish dialogue, Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.
Bonus features: full-length audio commentary by the director; 6 never-before-seen featurettes, including "Liar liar" (how to beat a polygraph) and "A different kind of justice" (military vs. civilian law); original theatrical trailer.

CAST: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower, Michael Gaston, Jude Ciccolella.

CREDITS: Producers, Arnon Milchan, Janet Yang, and Jesse B'Franklin; screenplay writers, Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley; director, Carl Franklin; director of photography, Theo van de Sande; editor, Carole Kravetz-Aykanian; music, Graeme Revell; costume designer, Sharen Davis; production designer, Paul Peters.

SUMMARY: Claire is a high-powered attorney whose perfect life comes crashing down around her when her husband is charged with high crimes of murder. Enlisting the aid of a shrewd military attorney, Claire will risk her career and even her life to find out the truth.

High Noon (VHS or DVD). 85 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.

CAST: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney, Henry Morgan, Lee Van Cleef.

CREDITS: Producer, Stanley Kramer; screenplay, Carl Foreman; director, Fred Zinnemann; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.

SUMMARY: This is the classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, the lawman stands to lose not only the town but his new wife.

Holly (DVD). 113 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.

CAST: Ron Livingston, Virginie Ledoyen, Chris Penn, Udo Kier, Thuy Nguyen.

CREDITS: Produced by Guy Jacobson, Adi Ezroni, and Guy Moshe; directed by Guy Moshe; screenplay by Guy Jacobson and Guy Moshe; director of photography, Yaron Orbach; editor, Isabella Monteiro de Castro; original music, To?n-Tha?t Thie?t.

SUMMARY: The notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, Cambobia. Patrick is an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts who has been living in Cambodia for years. He encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. Sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute. Holly's virginity makes her a lucrative prize. She is sold to a child trafficker. Patrick embarks on a frantic search to bring her to safety.

The Hurricane (DVD). 146 min.

Based on Rubin Carter's autobiography.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

CAST: Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, Vicellous Reon.

CREDITS: Produced by Armyan Bernstein, John Ketcham, and Norman Jewison; directed by Norman Jewison; screenplay by Armyan Berstein and Dan Gordon.

SUMMARY: Fighter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is convicted of murder at the height of his boxing career and after 20 years in prison, four people go to extraordinary lengths to prove his innocence.

I Am Sam: Love Is All You Need (VHS). 134 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

CAST: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning.

CREDITS: Directed by Jessie Nelson; produced by Marshall Herskovitz, Jessie Nelson, Richard Solomon, and Edward Zwick; written by Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson; cinematography by Elliot Davis; edited by Richard Chew; music by John Powell.

SUMMARY: Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than he is. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.

I Am the Law (VHS). 83 min.

Videocassette release of the 1938 motion picture.
Story based upon Liberty Magazine serial by Fred Allhoff.

CAST: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, John Beal, Wendy Barrie, Otto Kruger.

CREDITS: Produced by Everett Riskin; directed by Alexander Hall; screenplay by Jo Swerling.

SUMMARY: A dynamic law professor is drafted by a civic leader to investigate the city's gangster activities in this lurid expose of the inner workings of the urban underworld.

I Confess (VHS). 95 min.

Videocassette release of the 1952 motion picture.
Based on the play "Nos deux consciences" by Paul Anthelme.

CAST: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne.

CREDITS: Director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, George Tabori, William Archbald; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.

SUMMARY: Father Logan, stolid, stalwart, to all appearances the embodiment of priestly piety, hears a murderer's confession. Almost immediately Logan is plunged into peril, for circumstantial evidence and eyewitness accounts point to a priest as the killer. The sacrament of penance forbits him to reveal what he knows. As calamity and coincidence conspire to paint Logan into a hopeless corner, it becomes the priest who must admit to himself, and confess his own human frailty.

I Want To Live! (VHS). 122 min.

Videocassette release of the 1958 motion picture.

CAST: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel.

CREDITS: Director, Robert Wise; producer, Walter Wanger; screenplay, Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz; original jazz score, John Mandel.

SUMMARY: Based on the true story of Barbara Graham, a fast-living party girl, who suddenly finds herself accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to the gas chamber. Only a psychologist and a reporter can help her in the desperate struggle to prevent the final judgment.

I'm No Angel (VHS). 88 min.

Videocassette release of the 1933 motion picture.

CAST: Mae West, Cary Grant, Kent Taylor.

CREDITS: Director, Wesley Ruggles; screenplay, Mae West.

SUMMARY: Tira (West), in addition to circus acts, performs some shady business maneuvers and takes a job as a lion tamer to escape jail. She attracts the attention of wealthy but engaged Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor). Kirk's business partner Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) blows his friend's cover and begins a romance with Tira. This time Tira is in love for real and is devastated when a misunderstanding causes Jack to break off the affair. Serving as her own counsel, Tira sues Jack for breach of contract and takes him through a cross-examination he'll never forget!

In the Name of the Father (VHS). 133 min.

Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture.

CAST: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite.

CREDITS: Executive producer, Gabriel Byrne; co-producer, Arthur Lappin; producer/director, Jim Sheridan; screenplay, Terry George and Jim Sheridan.

SUMMARY: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, the young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.

Indictment: The McMartin Trial (DVD). 132 min.

DVD release of the 1995 television motion picture.

CAST: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Sada Thompson, Henry Thomas, Shirley Knight, Lolita Davidovich.

CREDITS: Producer, Diana Pikorny; writers, Abby Mann and Myra Mann; director, Mick Jackson; director of photography, Rodrigo Garcia; editor, Richard A. Harris; music, Peter Rodgers Melnick.

SUMMARY: Fact-based film about the child molestation trial involving the McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach, California.

Inherit the Wind (VHS). 128 min.

Videocassette release of the 1960 motion picture.
Based upon the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

CAST: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan.

CREDITS: Producer/director, Stanley Kramer; screenplay, Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith.

SUMMARY: A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.

Intolerable Cruelty (DVD). 101 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

CAST: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton.

CREDITS: Produced by Ethan Coen, Brian Grazer; screenplay by Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen; directed by Joel Coen; director of photography, Roger Deakins; editor, Roderick Jaynes; music, Carter Burwell; costume designer, Mary Zophres; production designer, Leslie McDonald.

SUMMARY: Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless romantic pursuit to out-swindle each other.

Jagged Edge (VHS). 108 min.

Videorecording of the 1985 motion picture.

CAST: Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia.

CREDITS: Music, John Barry; camera, Matthew F. Leonetti; screenplay, Joe Eszterhas; producer, Martin Ransohoff; director, Richard Marquand.

SUMMARY: An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.

JFK (DVD). 3 hr., 25 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Based on the books On the trail of the assassins by Jim Garrison and Crossfire : the plot that killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs.
Includes the documentary: Beyond JFK : the question of conspiracy.

CAST: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Oldman, Michael Rooker, Jay O. Sanders, Sissy Spacek.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar; produced by A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone; directed by Oliver Stone.

SUMMARY: The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.

CONTENTS:
Disc A: JFK [feature film]. Disc B: Feature-length Oliver Stone audio commentary; deleted/extended scenes; multimedia essays on the JFK assassination; interactive menus; production notes; theatrical trailer; scene access; DVD-ROM features.

Judgment at Nuremberg (VHS & DVD). 190 min. (2 videocassettes)

Videocassette release of the 1961 motion picture.
From the play by Abby Mann.

CAST: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner, Edward Binns, Kenneth MacKenna.

CREDITS: Producer/director, Stanley Kramer; writer, Abby Mann; music, Ernest Gold.

SUMMARY: This fictionalized account of a war crimes trial of four eminent Nazi judges at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II provides insight into Nazi brutality and raises questions about freedom of choice, loyalty to one's country, and responsibility to mankind.

The Juror (VHS & DVD). 118 min.

Videocassette release of the 1996 motion picture.
Based on the book by George Dawes Green.

CAST: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Ted Tally; produced by Irwin Winkler and Rob Cowan; directed by Brian Gibson.

SUMMARY: A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she's forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.

Just Cause (VHS & DVD). 102 min.

Videocassette release of the 1995 motion picture
Based on the novel by John Katzenbach.

CAST: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby Dee, Ed Harris.

CREDITS: Co-producers, Gary Foster, Anna Reinhardt; editor, William Anderson; production designer, Patrizia Von Brandenstein; director of photography, Lajos Koltai; music, James Newton Howard; executive producer, Sean Connery; screenplay, Jeb Stuart, Peter Stone; producers, Lee Rich, Arne Glimcher, Steve Perry; director, Arne Glimcher.

SUMMARY: A Harvard Law School professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a Death Row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straight-ahead case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, set in the Florida swamplands.

Kavanagh Q.C. (VHS). 4 videocassettes (5 hr., 30 min.)

Originally appeared as a series on BBC.

CAST: John Thaw, Lisa Harrow, Daisy Bates.

CREDITS: Director of photography, Nigel Walters ; series created by Ted Childs and Susan Rogers.

SUMMARY: James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most respected criminal adovcates in London, has earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and opponents alike. However, the long hours, difficult cases and dedication to his work have taken their toll on his wife and two children.

CONTENTS:
Nothing but the truth -- Heartland -- A family affair -- The sweetest thing.

Knock on Any Door (VHS). 100 min.

Videorecording of the 1949 motion picture.
From the novel "Knock on any door" by Willard Motley.

CAST: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Susan Perry.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Daniel Taradash, John Monks, Jr. ; director, Nicholas Ray ; producer, Robert Lord.

SUMMARY: A young hoodlum from the slums is tried for murdering a cop. He is defended by a prominent attorney who has known him from childhood.

Kramer vs. Kramer (VHS & DVD). 105 min.

Videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Avery Corman.

CAST: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry.

CREDITS: Produced by Stanley R. Jaffe; written for the screen and directed by Robert Benton; director of photography, Nestor Almendros; editor, Jerry Greenberg.

SUMMARY: When his wife walks out on Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son they have a chance to really get to know each other. When Ted's wife returns she wants her son back.

L.A. Law (VHS). 97 min.

Videocassette release of the 1986 motion picture.

CAST: Harry Hamlin, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michele Greene, Jimmy Smits ; Michael Tucker, Susan Ruttan, Richard Dysart.

CREDITS: Producer-director, Gregory Hobbit; executive director, Steven Bochco; writers, Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher; supervising producer, Terry Louise Fisher; music, Mike Post.

SUMMARY: Exciting litigators wrestle with cases of rape, murder, discrimination as well as problems of drug abuse, illness, and romance.

The Lady from Shanghai (VHS). 87 min.

Originally released as motion picture in 1948.
Based on the novel: If I die before I wake, by Sherwood King.

CAST: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Orson Welles; produced and directed by Orson Welles; photographer, Charles Lawton, Jr.; editor, Viola Lawrence; music, Heinz Roemheld.

SUMMARY: A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal frustrated wife. The film culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors.

Ladybird, Ladybird (VHS). 102 min.

Videocassette release of the 1994 motion picture. he lady from Shanghai [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures Corporation. Publisher: Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1991. Description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. Series: Columbia classics Summary: A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal frustrated wife. The film culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors. Notes: Originally released as motion picture in 1948. Based on the novel: If I die before I wake, by Sherwood King. "60451." Credits: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders. Screenplay by Orson Welles; produced and directed by Orson Welles; photographer, Charles Lawton, Jr.; editor, Viola Lawrence; music, Heinz Roemheld.
Winner of 1994 Berlin Film Festival International Critics Award.

CAST: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Ray Winstone, Sandie Lavelle.

CREDITS: Director, Ken Loach; producer, Sally Hibbin; photographer, Barry Ackroyd; editor, Jonathan Morris; music, George Fenton; screenplay, Rona Munro.

SUMMARY: Maggie Conlon (Rock) is an unwed mother with four children by four different fathers. While she loves her children deeply, she seems unable to escape the self-destructive behavior that repeatedly brings her into conflict with the local social services department. A new love affair with Jorge (Vega), a gentle political refugee, may be her last chance to break the vicious cycle she's trapped in, and her only hope for building a better life for her family and herself.

The Last Wave (DVD). 104 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1977.

CAST: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula M.B.E., Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedric Lalara, Morris Lalara.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Peter Weir, Tony Morphett, and Petru Popescu; produced by Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy; directed by Peter Weir; director of photography, Russell Boyd; editor, Max Lemon; music, Charles Wain; production designer, Goran Warff.

SUMMARY: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.

Law & Order. The 1st Year (DVD). 17 hr. 20 min.

Originally broadcast Sept. 13, 1990 through June 9, 1991 on the TV series Law & Order.

CAST: George Dzundza, Chris Noth, Dann Florek, Michael Moriarty, Richard Brooks, Steven Hill.

CREDITS: Executive producer, creator, Dick Wolf.

SUMMARY: The first season of the NBC-TV drama series, which follows three city cops as they track down criminals and concentrates on three lawyers who prosecute them.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. Prescription for death. Subterranean homeboy blues -- Disc 2. The reaper's helper. Kiss the girls and make them die. Happily ever after. Everybody's favorite bagman -- Disc 3. By hooker, by crook. Poison ivy. Indifference. Prisoner of love -- Disc 4. Out of the half-light. Life choice. A death in the family. The violence of summer -- Disc 5. Torrents of greed (part 1). Torrents of greed (part 2). Mushrooms. The secret shares -- Disc 6. The serpent's tooth. The troubles. Sonata for solo organ. The blue wall.

Law & order. The 2nd Year (DVD). 17 hr. 26 min.

Originally aired on television during the 1991-1992 season.
Based on the characters created by Dick Wolf.

CAST: Paul Sorvino, Chris Noth, Dann Florek, Michael Moriarty, Richard Brooks, Steven Hill.

CREDITS: Producers, Roz Weinman and others; writers, Noah Baylin and others; directors, Jace Alexander and others; director of photography, Ernest R. Dickerson and others; editors, Billy Fox and others; original music, Mike Post; costume designers, Thomas Lee Keller and Jennifer von Mayrhauser; production designers, Richard Bianchi, Robert Thayer, and Gary Weist.

SUMMARY: New York City Detective Mike Logan and Sargeant Paul Cerreta are working the streets of the 31st precinct in relentless persuit of criminals. Once the criminals are caught by Logan and Cerreta, it is up to Executive ADA Ben Stone and his assistant ADA Paul Robinette to bring them to justice.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. Confession. The wages of love. Aria. Asylum. God bless the child. Misconception. In memory of. Out of control -- Disc 2. Renunciation. Heaven. His hour upon the stage. Star struck. Severance. Blood is thicker. Trust. Vengeance -- Disc 3. Sisters of mercy. Cradle to grave.The fertile fields. Intolerance. Silence. The working stiff.

Law & Order. The 3rd Year (DVD). 17 hr. 25 min.

Originally broadcast on television during the 1992-1993 season.
Includes all 22 episodes plus bonus material.
Special features: a Jerry Orbach profile; tribute to Jerry Orbach.

CAST: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, Michael Moriarty, Richard Brooks, Steven Hill, Dann Florek.

CREDITS: Created by Dick Wolfe.

SUMMARY: New York's toughest team of prosecutors and investigators face the complex process of determining guilt and innocence.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. Skin deep. Conspiracy. Forgiveness. The corporate veil. Wedded bliss. Helpless. Self defense. Prince of darkness -- Disc 2. Point of view. Consultation. Extended family. Right to counsel. Night and fog. Promises to keep. Mother love. Jurisdiction -- Disc 3. Conduct unbecoming. Animal instinct. Virus. Securitate. Manhood. Benevolence.

Law & Order. The 4th Year (DVD). 17 hr. 10 min.

Originally broadcast on television during the 1993-1994 season.
Contains all 22 episodes from the fourth season.
Special features: 43 never-before-viewed deleted and extended scenes.

CAST: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Michael Moriarty, Jill Hennessy.

CREDITS: Created by Dick Wolf.

SUMMARY: Relive each gripping moment as New York's toughest detectives and prosecutors take on the hard-hitting cases that make the news.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. Sweeps. Volunteers. Discord. Profile. Black tie. Pride and joy. Apocrypha. American dream -- Disc 2. Born bad. The pursuit of happiness. The golden years. Snatched. Breeder. Censure. Kids. Big bang -- Disc 3. Mayhem. Wager. Sanctuary. Nurture. Doubles. Old friends.

Legal Eagles (VHS). 116 min.

Videocassette release of the 1986 motion picture.

CAST: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, Steven Hill.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr.; story, Ivan Reitman, Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr.; producer-director, Ivan Reitman; executive producers, Joe Medjuck, Michael C. Gross.

SUMMARY: A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.

Legally Blonde (VHS). 95 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

CAST: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge, Holland Taylor, Ali Larter.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith; directed by Robert Luketic; director of photograpy, Anthony B. Richmond; editors, Anita Brandt Burgoyne, Garth Craven; music Rolfe Kent; costume designer, Sophie de Rakoff Carbonell; production designer, Melissa Stewart.

SUMMARY: When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.

Legally Blonde 2 (DVD). 95 min.

CAST: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill, Dana Ivey, Bob Newhart, Luke Wilson.

CREDITS: Producers, Marc Platt, David Nicksay; screenplay writer, Kate Kondell; director, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld; director of photography, Elliot David; editor, Peter Teschner; music, Rolfe Kent; costume designer, Sophie de Rakoff Carbonell; production designer, Missy Stewart.

SUMMARY: When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the ins and outs of the political machine. With his help, Elle attempts to convince disillusioned U.S. Representative Rudd to help her get her voice heard in front of the stodgy old coots of the legislative branch.

The Letter (VHS). 96 min.

Based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham.

CAST: Bette David, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard.

CREDITS: Directed by William Wyler; screenplay by Howard Koch; music by Max Steiner.

SUMMARY: Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.

Liar Liar (DVD). 87 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.

CAST: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Jason Bernard, Mitchell Ryan, Anne Haney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes.

CREDITS: Written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur; produced by Brian Grazer; directed by Tom Shadyac; director of photography, Russell Boyd; music, John Debney; editing, Don Zimmerman.

SUMMARY: Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (DVD). 124 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.

CAST: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Anthony Zerbe, Ava Gardner.

CREDITS: Produced by John Foreman; screenplay by John Milius; directed by John Huston; music by Maurice Jarre.

SUMMARY: Judge Roy Bean is a self-made man who proclaims himself the law west of the Pecos, writes admiring letters to Lily Langtry, and rides into a gun-blaze of glory whooping, "For Texas and Miss Lily!". This film is the tell-tale saga of a frontier legend.

The Life of Emile Zola (VHS). 117 min.

Videocassette release of the 1937 motion picture, winner of the academy award for best picture.

CAST: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Erin O'Brien Moore, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky, Louis Calhern.

CREDITS: Directed by William Dieterle; screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg; music by Max Steiner.

SUMMARY: Explores the career of the novelist who championed the cause of France's oppressed, notably in the Dreyfus case..

Madame X (VHS). 100 min.

Videocassette release of the 1966 motion picture.
Based upon the play: La femme X, by Alexandre Bisson.

CAST: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett, Keir Dullea.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Jean Holloway; directed by David Lowell Rich; produced by Ross Hunter.

SUMMARY: Blackmailed into leaving her politician husband and their baby, a woman, twenty years later, finds herself on trial for murder, inadvertently defended by her own son.

The Magnificent Yankee (VHS). 80 min.

Videocassette release of the 1950 motion picture.

CAST: Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Emmet Lavery, based on his play; director, John Sturges; producer, Armand Deutsch.

SUMMARY: A portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who filled a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency. For thirty years the gentile and wise justice left his mark and came to be known as the "Great Dissenter" for his independent and controversial views.

A Man for All Seasons (VHS & DVD). 120 min.

Videocassette release of the 1966 motion picture.
Based on the play by Robert Bolt.

CAST: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Robert Bolt; produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann; photography, Ted Moore; editor, Ralph Kemplen; music, Georges Delerue.

SUMMARY: Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King Henry VIII and the events which lead to More's execution.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (VHS). 123 min.

Videocassette of the 1962 motion picture.
Based on the story by Dorothy M. Johnson.

CAST: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray.

CREDITS: Screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck; produced by Willis Goldbeck; directed by John Ford; director of photography, William H. Clothier; editor, Otho Lovering; music, Cyril Mockridge.

SUMMARY: The story of a man who becomes a legend and an important political figure by falsely claiming he shot a ruthless gunman (Liberty Valance).

Manhattan Melodrama (VHS). 91 min.

Videocassette release of the 1934 motion picture.

CAST: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Oliver H.P. Garrett and Joseph Mankiewicz; original story, Arthur Caesar; producer David O. Selznick; director W.S. Van Dyke.

SUMMARY: Story about boyhood pals who end up on opposite sides of the law, and who fall for the same woman. Won Oscar for best original story. In film history, this motion picture is known for three reasons: It's the film John Dillinger saw with his Lady in Red before an FBI ambush; It's the only pairing of Gable and Powell; It's the first teaming of partners Powell and Loy.

Marked Woman (VHS). 97 min.

Videocassette release of the 1937 motion picture.

CAST: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Cianelli, Jane Bryan, Rosalind Marquis, Mayo Methot, Allen Jenkins, John Litel, Ben Welden, Henry O'Neill.

CREDITS: Director, Lloyd Bacon; music and lyrics, Harry Warren, Al Dubin.

SUMMARY: When a hostess's innocent sister vanishes from a party given by a racketeering boss, she threatens the boss, and is then herself in danger.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (DVD). 121 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
Based on the novel "McCabe" by Edmund Naughton.

CAST: Warren Beatty (McCabe), Julie Christie (Constance Miller), Renâe Auberjonois (Sheehan), William Devane (The Lawyer), John Schuck (Smalley), Corey Fischer (Mr. Elliot), Bert Remsen (Bart Coyle), Shelley Duvall (Ida Coyle), Keith Carradine (Cowboy), Michael Murphy (Sears), Tom Hill (Archer), Hugh Millais (Butler), Manfred Schulz (Kid), Jace Van Der Veen (Breed), Linda Sorenson (Blanche), Janet Wright (Eunice), Jack Riley (Riley Quinn), Graeme Campbell (Bill Cobbs), Don Francks (Buffalo).

CREDITS: Screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay; produced by David Foster and Mitchell Brower; directed by Robert Altman; photography, Vilmos Zsigmond; film editor, Louis Lombardo; songs, Leonard Cohen.

SUMMARY: Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation, which wants to buy out McCabe along with the rest. His decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller, and the town.

The Merchant of Venice (VHS & DVD). 131 min.

A television version of Jonathan Miller's 1973 London stage production of the play by William Shakespeare.

CAST: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston.

CREDITS: Adapted and directed by John Sichel; executive producer, Cecil Clarke.

SUMMARY: The play is set in the Venice of 1860. Laurence Olivier stars in Shakespeare's story of the young Venetian and the Jew who lends him money on the security of one pound of flesh. Upon default the Jew insists on payment of his bond and the young Venetian is rescued by the heroine disguised as a male lawyer.

Michael Clayton (DVD). 120 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: Additional scenes and commentary by writer/director Tony Gilroy and editor John Gilroy.

CAST: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe.

CREDITS: Produced by Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, Sydney Pollack, and Steve Samuels; written and directed by Tony Gilroy; director of photography, Robert Elswit; editor, John Gilroy; music, James Newton Howard; costume designer, Sarah Edwards; production designer, Kevin Thompson.

SUMMARY: Attorney Michael Clayton is a 'fixer' the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life --including Michael's.

Miracle on 34th Street (DVD). 97 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.
Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Gwenn), Best Original Story, and Best Screenplay.

CAST: Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan, Philip Tonge.

CREDITS: Written for the screen by George Seaton; story by Valentine Davies; produced by William Perlberg; directed by George Seaton; directors of photography, Charles Clarke and Lloyd Ahern; editor, Robert Simpson; music, Cyril Mockridge.

SUMMARY: The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit-- except for his boss, who's raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kris is declared insane and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as old and young alike face the age old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Mississippi Burning (VHS). 127 min.

Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture.

CAST: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe.

CREDITS: Producers, Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry; director, Alan Parker; writer, Chris Gerolmo.

SUMMARY: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (VHS). 115 min.

Videocassette release of the 1936 motion picture.

CAST: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn.

CREDITS: Screen play by Robert Riskin; story by Clarence Budington Kelland; directed and produced by Frank Capra; photography, Joseph Walker; film editor, Gene Havlick; musical director, Howard Jackson.

SUMMARY: Comedy about writer of greeting card verses who leaves his small town home for New York when he inherits $20 million dollars. In New York, "sophisticates," including relatives, lawyers, and business executives, attempt to have him declared insane in order to gain control of the fortune.

Mr. Smith goes to Washington (DVD). 2 hr. 10 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.
DVD special features include: Frank Capra Jr. commentary, Frank Capra Jr. remembers "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", vintage advertising, original theatrical trailer, bonus trailers, talent files.

CAST: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee.

CREDITS: Produced and directed by Frank Capra; screenplay by Sidney Buchman.

SUMMARY: Stewart plays a freshman senator in Washington, D.C. who becomes involved in political infighting when a project of his is undermined by unscrupulous others who want to build a dam.

Murder in the First (VHS). 123 min.

Videocassette release of the 1994 motion picture.

CAST: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, Brad Dourif, William H. Macy, R. Lee Ermey.

CREDITS: Music, Christopher Young; co-producer, Deborah Lee; editor, Russell Livingstone; production designer, Kirk M. Petruccelli; director of photography, Fred Murphy; executive producers, David L. Wolper, Marc Rocco; writer, Dan Gordon; producers, Marc Frydman, Mark Wolper; director, Marc Rocco.

SUMMARY: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on trial in his client's behalf.

A Murder of Crows (VHS). 101 min.

Rated R.

CAST: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mark Pellegrino, Eric Stoltz.

CREDITS: Producers, Elie Samaha, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ashok Amritraj; writer and director, Rowdy Herrington.

SUMMARY: The story of one man's struggle with his responsibilities as a lawyer and with the appetite of his ego. Prominent New Orleans attorney Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) puts his name on a best seller he didn't write. However, the novel he stole was a factual account of a series of murders.

Murder or Mercy (VHS). 78 min.

Videocassette release of the 1974 motion picture by QM Productions.

CAST: Bradford Dillman, Melvyn Douglas, Denver Pyle, Mildred Dunnock.

CREDITS: Executive producer, Quinn Martin; producer, Adrian Samish; director, Harvey Hart; writer, Douglas Day Stewart.

SUMMARY: A noted doctor stands trial for the mercy killing of his terminally-ill wife.

Music Box (VHS). 126 min.

Videocassette release of the 1989 motion picture.

CAST: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederick Forrest, Lukas Haas, Donald Moffat.

CREDITS: Written by Joe Eszterhas; produced by Irwin Winkler; directed by Costa-Gavras; director of photography, Patrick Blossier; production designer, Jeannine Claudia Oppewell.

SUMMARY: A Chicago attorney agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father against accusations of heinous war crimes committed fifty years earlier. As the trial unfolds, she probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.

My Cousin Vinny (VHS & DVD). 120 min.

Video release of the 1992 motion picture.
Available in both DVD and VHS.

CAST: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield.

CREDITS: Produced by Dale Launer and Paul Schiff; directed by Jonathan Lynn; writer, Dale Launer.

SUMMARY: Two carefree pals mistakenly arrested and charged with murder are defended by the cousin of one of them (Vinny), a former auto mechanic of Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court and this case quickly turns into a hysterical escapade.

North Country (DVD). 2 hr. 3 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Based on the book "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jensen and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy.

CAST: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Renner, Richard Jenkins, Sissy Spacek.

CREDITS: Produced by Nana Greenwald, Jeff Skoll, and Nick Wechsler; screenplay by Michael Seitzman; directed by Niki Caro; director of photography, Chris Menges; art director, Gregory S. Hooper; editor, David Coulson; music, Gustavo Santaolalla; costume designer, Cindy Evans; production designer, Richard Hoover; visual effects supervisor, Eric Durst.

SUMMARY: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Nuts (VHS). 116 min.

Videocassette release of the 1987 motion picture.
Based on the play by Tom Topor.

CAST: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss.

CREDITS: Teri Schwartz, Cis Corman, executive producers; Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, Alvin Sargent, screenplay; Barbra Streisand, producer; Martin Ritt, director.

SUMMARY: Courtroom thriller in which the accused (Streisand) fights to prove her competency to stand trial.

On the Waterfront (VHS). 108 min.

Videocassette release of the 1954 motion picture.

CAST: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning.

CREDITS: Director, Eliz Kazan; producer, Sam Spiegel; screenplay, Budd Schulberg; music, Leonard Bernstein.

SUMMARY: A young dockworker tries to break the hold of a waterfront boss.

The Onion Field (DVD & VHS). 126 min.

Videocassette release of the 1979 motion picture.
Based on the book of the same title by Joseph Wambaugh.

CAST: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ronny Cox.

CREDITS: Director, Harold Becker; producer, Walter Coblenz; screenplay, Joseph Wambaugh; music, Emuir Deodato.

SUMMARY: A true story about two Los Angeles cops who are kidnapped. One of the officers is murdered in a deserted onion field between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, Calif. The reality of day-to-day police work is scrutinized and while the wheels of justice turn slowly, the surviving policeman becomes an emotional cripple, believing that he is responsible for his partner's death.

Other People's Money (VHS). 101 min.

Videocassette release of the 1991 motion picture.

CAST: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie.

CREDITS: Music, David Newman; film editor, Lou Lombardo; production designer, Phillip Rosenberg; director of photography, Haskell Wexler; executive producers, Ellen Krass and Davina Belling; screenplay, Alvin Sargent; producers, Norman Kewison and Ric Kidney; director, Norman Jewison.

SUMMARY: Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield deals, connives, wheedles and cajoles as Garfield, the Wall Street buccaneer. But New England Wire and Cable's patriarch has been a fighter all his life and, to arm against a takeover, he's hired an attorney whose high style and high-stakes cunning rival Larry's.

Ox Bow Incident (VHS). 75 min.

Videocassette release of 1942 motion picture.
Based on a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

CAST: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Henry Morgan , Anthony Quinn.

CREDITS: Director, William A. Wellman.

SUMMARY: A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.

Pagliacci (VHS). 70 min.

Opera in two acts with prologue.
Performed in Italian, with English subtitles.

CAST: Teresa Stratas, soprano; Placido Domingo, Florindo Andreoli, tenors; Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi, baritones; chorus and orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Georges Pretre, conductor; chorus master, Romano Gandolfi.

CREDITS: Director, Franco Zeffirelli; set director, Gianna Quaranta; costumes, Anna Anni; musical supervision, Rudolf Werner; editing, Peter Taylor, Franca Silvi; executive producer, Horant H. Hohfeld.

SUMMARY: A traveling troupe of entertainers (Canio, his wife Nedda, Peppe and Tonio) arrive in the village for an evening performance. Nedda and her lover Silvio, a young lad from the village, plan to leave together that night. Tonio overhears the plot and tells Canio.

The Paper Chase (VHS or DVD). 111 min.

From the original 1973 motion picture.
Based on the novel by John Jay Osborn.

CAST: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman.

CREDITS: Produced by Robert C. Thompson and Rodrick Paul; directed by James Bridges; screenplay by James Bridges.

SUMMARY: Making it through the first year of Harvard Law School is tough enough without making an adversary of your most important professor. That, however, is exactly what Timothy Bottoms does in this realistic and moving drama.

The Paradine Case (VHS & DVD). 114 min.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
From a novel by Robert Hichens.

CAST: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Valli.

CREDITS: Director, Alfred Hitchcock; producer, David O. Selznick; adaptation, Alma Reville; photography, Lee Garmes.

SUMMARY: In a suspenseful courtroom drama, a beautiful woman is accused of having murdered her husband.

Paris Trout (DVD & VHS). 98 min.

Video release of the 1991 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Pete Dexter.

CAST: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris.

CREDITS: Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; produced by Frank Konigsberg and Larry Sanitsky; screenplay by Pete Dexter; executive producer, Diana Kerew.

SUMMARY: Storekeeper (Paris Trout) in a quiet Southern town takes the law into his own hands and ends up murdering a 12-year-old black girl. His attorney is torn between duty to his arrogant, prejudiced client and his increasing attraction to Trout's abused wife.

A Passage to India (VHS). 163 min.

Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture.
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.

CAST: Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee.

CREDITS: Director, David Lean; producers, John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin; screenplay, David Lean; music, Maurice Jarre.

SUMMARY: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young girl.

The Pelican Brief (VHS & DVD). 141 min.

Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture.
Based on the book by John Grisham.

CAST: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington.

CREDITS: Screenplay, Alan J. Pakula; producers, Alan J. Pakula, Pieter Jan Brugge; director, Alan J. Pakula.

SUMMARY: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated, and a young law student stumbles upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story, but it seems as if everybody else wants her dead.

People vs. Larry Flynt (DVD). 130 min.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: Cast commentary; writer's commentary; "Free speech or porn?", "Larry Flynt exposed"; theatrical trailer; filmographies; animated menus.

CAST: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton.

CREDITS: Produced by Oliver Stone, Janet Yang and Michael Hausman; directed by Milos Forman; written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski; director of photography, Philippe Rousselot; film editor, Christopher Tellefsen; music, Thomas Newman.

SUMMARY: Story of the notorious "Hustler" publisher who was sued by the religious Right and paralyzed by a fanatic's bullet.

Perry Mason (DVD). about 3.5 hours per disc

50th anniversary edition.
Originally broadcast on television, 1960-1966.
Special features: Perry Mason returns (MOW) -- Perry Mason talent tests -- The case of Earl Stanley Gardner featurette -- Syndication promos -- Raymond Burr's Charlie Rose interviews -- Raymond Burr on "Person to person" -- New Barbara Hale interview -- New Arthur Marks interview -- Photo gallery -- The cast plays "Stump the Stars" -- William Talman anti-smoking message -- CBS executive Anne Nelson interview.

CAST: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman.

SUMMARY: In this collection of Perry Mason's most incredible cases, defense attorney Perry Mason, who never loses a case, matches wits with his courtroom adversary D.A. Hamilton Burger. Mason, aided by devoted secretary Della Street and loyal private eye Paul Drake, uncovers evidence that clears his client of murder.

CONTENTS:
Disc 1. The case of the wary wildcatter -- The case of the treacherous toupee -- The case of the envious editor -- The case of the barefaced witness -- Disc 2. The case of the counterfeit crank -- The case of the shoplifter's shoe -- The case of the constant doyle -- The case of the deadly verdict -- Disc 3. The case of the bountiful beauty -- The case of the twice told twist -- The case of the dead ringer -- The case of the final fadeout -- Disc 4. Special features.

Philadelphia (VHS & DVD). 125 min.

Videocassette release of the 1993 motion picture.

CAST: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen.

CREDITS: Executive producers, Gary Goetzman, Kenneth Ott and Ron Bozman; director, Jonathan Demme; writer, Ron Nyswaner.

SUMMARY: Powerful story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.

Physical Evidence (VHS). 99 min.

Videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture.

CAST: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty.

CREDITS: Executive producer, Don Carmody; screenplay by Bill Phillips; story by Steve Ransohoff and Bill Phillips; produced by Martin Ransohoff; directed by Michael Crichton; director of photography, John A. Alonzo; music by Henry Mancini.

SUMMARY: A suspended Boston cop, charged with first degree murder, is forced to depend upon a court-appointed attorney, an ambitious, cool and sophisticated woman, who represents everything he hates.

A Place in the Sun (VHS). 120 min.

Videocassette release of 1951 motion picture.
Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel.

CAST: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelly Winters, Keefe Brasselle.

CREDITS: Screenplay by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown; produced and directed by George Stevens; director of photography, William C. Mellor; editor, William Hornbeck; music, Franz Waxman.

SUMMARY: A poor young man is determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite, but a factory girl's dark secret threatens his professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, he is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.

Planet of the Apes (VHS). 112 min.

30th anniversary ed.
Videocassette release of the 1967 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle.

CAST: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore.

CREDITS: Produced by Arthur P. Jacobs; directed by Franklin Schaffner; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling; music by Jerry Goldsmith.

SUMMARY: Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes.

Presumed Innocent (VHS & DVD). 127 min.

Videocassette release of the 1990 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Scott Turow.

CAST: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, Greta Scacchi.

CREDITS: Film editor Evan Lottman; production designer George Jenkins; director of photography Gordon Willis; music by John Williams; screenplay by Frank Pierson and Alan J. Pakula; executive producer Susan Solt; produced by Sydney Pollack and Mark Rosenberg; directed by Alan J. Pakula.

SUMMARY: Rusty Sabich is an up-and-comer in the county prosecutor's office. He's intelligent, hard working, dependable. And, just maybe, he's also a murderer.

Primal Fear (VHS). 130 min.

Videocassette release of the 1996 motion picture.

CAST: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney.

CREDITS: Directed by Gregory Hoblit; produced by Gary Lucchesi.

SUMMARY: A high-powered Chicago attorney defends a penniless altar boy accused of murdering the local archibishop.

Provoked: A True Story (DVD).

Based on a true story.
Based on the book "Circle of Light: The Autobiography of Kiranjit Ahluwalia" by Rahila Gupta and Kiranjit Ahluwalia.
In English with some Punjabi; English subtitles.

CAST: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Rebecca Pidgeon, Nandita Das, Robbie Coltrane.

CREDITS: Directed by Jag Mundhra; produced by Sunanda Murali Manohar; screenplay by Carl Austin and Rahila Gupta; director of photography, Madhu Ambat; edited by Jag Mundhra and Sanjeev R. Mirajkar; music by A.R. Rahman.

SUMMARY: Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi housewife and mother of two in London, sets him on fire and kills him. Charged with first-degree murder, she is sentenced to life imprisonment, where she befriends her cell mate. Moved by her story, the cell mate asks her step-brother, a highly respected queen's counsel, to file her appeal.

Pudd'nhead Wilson (VHS). 87 min.

Videocassette release of the 1983 motion picture by The Great Amwell Company, Inc. and Nebraskans for Public Television.
Based on the novel by Mark Twain.

CAST: Ken Howard, Lise Hilboldt.

CREDITS: Executive producer, William Perry; director, Alan Bridges; producer, Jane Iredale.

SUMMARY: Mark Twain uses his insight and wit to explore the issues of slavery, mother/son relationships, justice, and the many shapes of human folly. A mulatto slave switches her disconcertingly white baby with her master's son to protect it in a time of strong racial prejudice.