Jack Nicholson
Author
Language
English
Description
Three cowboys are traveling through the Wild West when they stumble upon a gang of outlaws and a dead body. The cowboys are mistaken for members of the gang and are pursued relentlessly by a determined posse to be brought to justice.
1966 American Western film starring Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Harry Dean Stanton, and directed by Monte Hellman. Nicholson also wrote and co-produced the film.
Cowboys Vern, Wes, and Otis...
3) The Pledge
Author
Language
English
Description
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
4) Ironweed
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up ballplayer who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink.
5) Goin' South
Author
Language
English
Description
Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch. She has no intention of consummating...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Johnny Varron is a rebellious youth gang leader who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. But when he fatally runs a police officer off the road, the walls begin closing in on Johnny and his world.
8) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special 30th anniversary ed., widescreen and full screen version
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
9) Heartburn
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A magazine writer gives up her career for love and a family only to have her playboy newspaper columnist husband cheat on her.
10) The Two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (138 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original" (Mike Clark, **USA Today**). Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone; 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth." And...
11) Hoffa
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodic (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fictionalized biography of Jimmy Hoffa, tracing his career from 1935 to his mysterious disappearance in 1975.
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
13) The Pledge
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On the night he retires as a Reno detective, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their age. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon,...
14) A few good men
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Widescreen/fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hot shot young Navy lawyer defends two Marines accused in the death of a another Marine.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is the insane story of lonely florist Seymour (Jonathan Haze) and his hungry, man-eating plant, Audrey. Seymour will go to great lengths to make sure Audrey is fed and happy. With a cast that includes Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, and a young Jack Nicholson as a dental patient, director Roger Corman and screenwriter Charles Griffith gives us a cult comic horror masterpiece for the ages!
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns ... to even the score.
17) The Last Tycoon
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (123 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
18) The Raven
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Scream legends Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff play rival magicians whose paths cross when Dr. Craven (Price) hears Dr. Bedlo (Lorre) tap-tap-tapping on his windowpane. You see, Bedlo has been turned into a raven by Dr. Scarabus (Karloff) and when transformed back into his old self he vows revenge. There may be little that's recognizable from Edgar Allan Poe's original poem in these sorcerers' shenanigans, but the comical rivalry between...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (132 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This **Oscar**-winner dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of a mother and daughter, unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment, director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year relationship. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbor, a boozy, womanizing former astronaut. Winner of five **Academy...
20) Ironweed
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (143 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the William Kennedy novel of the same name, IRONWEED is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up baseball player who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink; spending his days palling around with Rudy (Tom Waits). Wandering into his hometown of Albany, New...