Martin Balsam
Series
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
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. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
3) Catch-22
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
4) 12 angry men
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionaire before the local police arrive.
8) Psycho
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
10) After the fox
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Wildly funny farce that gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last!
13) Hombre
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A white man raised by an Arizona Apache tribe is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house he inherits.
14) 12 angry men
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
15) Cape Fear
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.
16) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room.
18) Tora!Tora!Tora!
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.