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    The deer hunter
    Man who came to play
    PA34-365 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: E M I Films, Inc. DCR 1977; PUB 3Nov78; REG 11Jun79; PA34-365. Story, Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle & Quinn K. Redeker ; music, Stanley Myers ; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond ; editor, Peter Zinner. Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken. Reissue date is copyright date for videodisc package design. Two discs in one...
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1985
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    Deliverance Four men make a journey down a backwoods river that turns into a revelation of human cruelty, from rape to murder, from which they return to their homes with a new realization of the meaning of civilization and atavism.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1984
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    Dracula LP1947 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Universal Pictures Corp.; 2Feb31; LP1947. Minor change version: [Restored version]. -- [United States : MCA Home Video, 1988]. Copyright for minor change version: no reg. Copyright on videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video, Inc. ; 1988. Dialogue, Dudley Murphy. Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye. NCN000917; Dracula. Based on the novel and play by Bram Stoker. On side...
    • Contributor: Afi/Universal Pictures Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Mertz (Richard) Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1931
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    E.T.--the extra-terrestrial
    Extra-terrestrial | E.T.--the extraterrestrial
    E.T. and his fellow space travelers come peacefully to Earth to gather plants in a misty redwood forest. When they are discoverd, the rest of the crew flee in their spaceship and E.T. is accidentally left behind. He is found by Elliott, a ten-year-old boy with whom he develops a friendship that bridges the universe with understanding and love.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1988
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    From here to eternity In 1941, at a peacetime army camp in Hawaii, a captain's wife and a career soldier fall in love, while a private is cruelly punished for refusing to box on his unit's team.
    • Contributor: Clift, Montgomery - Rca/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm) - Jones, James - Coca-Cola Company Collection (Library of Congress) - Duning, George - Kerr, Deborah - Bellaver, Harry - Reed, Donna - Sinatra, Frank - Reeves, George ... Clift, Montgomery - Rca/Columbia Pictures Home Video (Firm) - Jones, James - Coca-Cola Company Collection (Library of Congress) - Duning, George - Kerr, Deborah - Bellaver, Harry - Reed, Donna - Sinatra, Frank - Reeves, George - Zinnemann, Fred - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Adler, Buddy - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Shaughnessy, Mickey - Lancaster, Burt - Stoloff, Morris - Taradash, Daniel - Columbia Pictures Corporation - Ober, Philip - Borgnine, Ernest
    • Date: 1987
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    The graduate Benjamin Braddock comes home to his family following his graduation from college at a loss of what to do with his life. Expected to be an instant adult, to get a job and to marry, Ben instead goes into withdrawal. Somehow, the planned bright, safe and secure future seems unworthy and unacceptable. His life takes a bizarre turn when he begins an affair with...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1987
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    Modern times The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at...
    • Contributor: Sandford, Stanley - Mann, Hank - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Roy Export Company Collection (Library of Congress) - Goddard, Paulette - Conklin, Chester - Chaplin, Charlie - Garcia, Allan - Bergman, Henry
    • Date: 1982
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    It's a gift A general store proprietor buys an orange ranch by mail and transports his family to California.
    • Contributor: Howard, Kathleen - Fields, W. C. (William Claude) - Rouverol, Jean - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection (Library of Congress) - Cunningham, Jack - McLeod, Norman Z.
    • Date: 1987
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    Little big man Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of Wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1983
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    The lost weekend Don, an alcoholic, is unable to resist the lure of the bottle as he goes on a self-destructive binge. He uses various strategies to evade the watchful eye of his brother, Wick, and his sweetheart, Helen, in hiding his bottles with animal cunning. They have followed his debauch through a series of epidodes which includes his unblushing importunities of a bartender, begging for drinks;...
    • Contributor: Brackett, Charles - Afi/Universal Pictures Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilder, Billy - Milland, Ray - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Jackson, Charles - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection (Library of Congress) - Terry, Phillip - Wyman, Jane
    • Date: 1989
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    The magnificent Ambersons A drama about the decline of a powerful, wealthy family living in the late 1800s as they cling to tradition in a time beset by rapid change.
    • Contributor: Costello, Dolores - Welles, Orson - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Holt, Tom - Cotten, Joseph - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Baxter, Anne
    • Date: 1986
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    National velvet Velvet Brown, is a small English schoolgirl with very big dreams. In love with horses, she falls for one in particular, an unruly thoroughbred rogue known for his spectacular escapes from a high-walled pasture. When the owner raffles his horse off in disgust, Velvet holds the winning ticket. With the help of Mi Taylor, her young friend, she plans to put the horse's jumping...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1944
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    Naughty Marietta
    Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta
    A musical comedy in which a French princess secretly trades places with her maid, and flees to Louisiana to avoid forced marriage to a Spanish nobleman. She and the group of women with her are captured by pirates but soon rescued by a band of hearty frontiersmen under the leadership of Capt. Warrington. Marietta and Warrington fall in love and, after other tribulations caused...
    • Contributor: Herbert, Victor - Brophy, Edward - Stromberg, Hunt - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Eddy, Nelson - Goodrich, Frances - Hackett, Albert - Gibbons, Cedric - Tamiroff, Akim - Van Dyke, W. S. - Macdonald, Jeanette - Mahin, John Lee - Daniels, William
    • Date: 1986
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    Midnight cowboy Texas "cowboy", Joe Buck, takes a bus to New York to make his fortune hustling lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services. Shortly after arriving, he himself is hustled by con man Ratso Rizzo, with whom he ultimately develops an unusual and deep friendship as they spend a long, hard winter in the underbelly of the city.
    • Contributor: Vaccaro, Brenda - United Artists Corporation - Lloyd, John Robert - Schlesinger, John - Hellman, Jerome - Barry, John - Hoffman, Dustin - Holender, Adam - Jerome Hellman Productions - Utt, Kenneth ... Vaccaro, Brenda - United Artists Corporation - Lloyd, John Robert - Schlesinger, John - Hellman, Jerome - Barry, John - Hoffman, Dustin - Holender, Adam - Jerome Hellman Productions - Utt, Kenneth - Miles, Sylvia - Voight, Jon - Robertson, Hugh A. - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - Salt, Waldo - McGiver, John - Herlihy, James Leo
    • Date: 1988
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    The outlaw Josey Wales After Civil war renegades pillaged the home of a farmer (Clint Eastwood), and killed his wife and child, he becomes a one-man army to avenge the destruction and their deaths. This western is filled with action and suspense.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1987
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    The right stuff Project Mercury: the catch-up crash program to put an American into space. The technology was in its infancy. The rockets were unproven. The gamble was enormous. And the pressure was on, because the Russians were already up there. To man Project Mercury, America needed pilots with "the right stuff"--Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton, the...
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1983
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    Stormy weather A soldier who loves to dance, and longs for a career in show buiness meets a night club singer who, impressed with his talent encourages him to pursue his dream. Their on-again off-again romance, spanning the years between the World Wars, is set against a journey to show business stardom that takes them from Memphis' Beale Street Blues Cafe to Hollywood.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1989
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    The hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson is a pool hustler obsessed by the need to challenge and beat the legendary Minnesota Fats.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1982
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    To kill a mockingbird A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
    • Contributor: Alford, Phillip - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection (Library of Congress) - Foote, Horton - Peck, Gregory - Badham, Mary - Mulligan, Robert
    • Date: 1987
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    Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? During an all-night dinner, a couple at a small midwestern college reveal to a new faculty member and his wife the strange games of love and hate that drive their marriage.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1987
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    Network Story of the fierce fights for power among network officials. Howard Beale is a top TV anchorman, who announces one day that he will blow his brains out in prime time, for the sake of the ratings. He goes from a dispassionate newscaster to a national folk hero with his famous battle cry, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it...
    • Contributor: Finch, Peter - Chayefsky, Paddy - United Artists Corporation - Duvall, Robert - Dunaway, Faye - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Gottfried, Howard - Richardson, Lee - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Lumet, Sidney - Holden, William - Warner Brothers Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1983
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    The band wagon Tony Hunter is a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His friends Lester and Lily Marton have written a show they feel would be just right for Tony, and the three team up with Jeffrey Cordova, a self-styled "genius" director, who gets the idea to turn the play into...
    • Contributor: Loew's Incorporated - Buchanan, Jack - Minnelli, Vincente - Fabray, Nanette - Green, Adolph - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Freed, Arthur - Mitchell, James - Levant, Oscar - Charisse, Cyd - Gist, Robert - Comden, Betty - Astaire, Fred
    • Date: 1987
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    Ruggles of Red Gap The story concerns Ruggles, a British manservant, who finds himself transported to the West when his master loses him in a card game.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1978
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    The incredible shrinking man Scott Carey is enveloped by a glowing radioactive fog, which causes him to begin shrinking gradually but relentlessly. Eventually, he is only two inches tall and must live in a dollhouse set up in his livingroom. The minor irritations of his abnormal-sized life assume life and death proportions, as he duels with a now monstrous spider, escapes from a clawing house cat, and battles...
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1978
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    Forbidden planet With the scientific equipment of a dead race, the Krell, the mad human scientist, Dr. Morbius, has taken over a planet through the use of his id, as discovered by a visiting spaceship.
    • Contributor: Miller, Wesley C. - Nayfack, Nicholas - Pidgeon, Walter - Stevens, Warren - Francis, Anne - Robby the Robot - Wilcox, Fred M. - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Gillespie, Arnold - Folsey, George J. - Nielsen, Leslie - Hume, Cyril - Ries, Irving G. - Mgm/Ua Home Video (Firm) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1994