Noah Beery
Description
Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy--just a bit on the cautious side, that's all. And he bears a very strong resemblance to Western TV hero Bret Maverick. Rockford is sometimes aided (and sometimes deterred) in his cases by friends Dennis Becker (a police detective), Angel (his cowardly former cell mate)...
Series
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Jim Rockford is an ex-con who has an instinct for solving cases. He is as cool as his Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed. His cases usually turn out to be more difficult and dangerous than he initially imagines, and he often ends up in situations over his head.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2016
Description
Season one : Jim Rockford, an ex-con turned private investigator, investigates old and unsolved crimes.
Season two: From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed. This private eye chases down long-dead clues to solve crime in the streets of Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Jim Rockford, an ex-con pardoned for an armed robbery he didn't commit, is a private investigator specializing in closed cases. The wisecracking private-eye's approach to crime is cooler than his sleek Pontiac Firebird and more casual than his mobile home in Malibu. Filled with wry humor, chilling suspense and engaging mysteries.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Dawn rider: "John Wayne hits the vengeance trail after the bandits who shot his father in this 1935 film from Robert N. Bradbury, who directed most of the Duke's many early Lone Star Westerns"--Container.
Hurricane express: "John Wayne stars as pilot Larry Baker, who makes an unscheduled landing in a vain attempt to prevent a railway collision that kills his father, and is fired for disobeying orders"--Container.
John Wayne: American hero of the...
13) Rocketship X-M
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Four men and one woman take off to the Moon but are knocked off course by a meteor shower. They are forced to land on Mars, a planet devastated by atomic warfare and populated by deadly radiation-scarred mutants.
14) Red river
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
15) Gung ho
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Description
Tells the story of the Second Marine Raider Battalion, the group formed seven weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The battalion's purpose was to raid Japanese-held islands and claim them for the United States. Led by Colonel Thorwald, the men endured grueling combat training in preparation for their first mission: to annihilate the much larger and firmly entrenched Japanese garrison on Makin Island.
17) Walking tall
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Based on a true story of a Tennessee sheriff who fought corruption in his county.
18) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
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