Robert Duvall
Author
Language
Français
Description
Une histoire politique qui se lit d'un trait,
et qui pourrait bien être vraie.
Voilà six ans que Denis Moreau occupe la fonction de maire de Granby. On peut dire que sous son règne, la dette et les taxes ont baissé de façon substantielle, ce qui le rend très populaire au sein de la population et du conseil municipal, qu'il contrle complètement. Il prétend être le défenseur du petit contribuable, mais est-ce vraiment le cas?
Maxime Lalonde,...
Author
Language
Français
Description
-Papa, je veux aller à la taverne!
Connaissez-vous beaucoup d'enfants de six ou sept ans qui interpellent leur père tous les dimanches de cette façon? Toute mon enfance, j'ai été fasciné par ce lieu mystérieux. Plus tard, au début de ma vie adulte, j'ai connu les différents acteurs qui fréquentaient ces lieux: les travailleurs, les récipiendaires d'aide sociale, les ivrognes, les artisans, les artistes et les nombreux immigrants. Suivez-moi...
4) Wild Horses
Author
Language
English
Description
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing person's case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie is not about to retire quietly in a trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild adventure filled with guns, women and booze. It's just another night in Old Mexico.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1960, agents from the new nation of Israel stage a daring commando raid inside Argentina to arrest the principle architect of the Nazi genocide of millions of European Jews in this riveting, true story.Based upon the book Eichmann In My Hands by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A confused and over-sexed young woman is taken in by a respectable Southern family. She is warmly received but trouble begins when she cannot control her sexual desires.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[English/French dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (136 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A Nazi Strike Force plots to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Duvall), Colonel Stenier (Caine) and Liam Devlin (Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, these paratroopers descend upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to derail their treacherous...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall stars as a maverick military officer whose tyranny threatens to tear his family apart in the gripping drama THE GREAT SANTINI.A warrior without a war, Lieutenant Colonel Bull Meechum (Duvall) governs his troubled family using the same iron will and cold-as-steel toughness with which he commands his squadron. Nicknamed "The Great Santini," Meechum almost destroys his devoted wife (Blythe Danner) and rebellious son...
13) Jack Reacher
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
15) Crazy heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
16) Lonesome Dove
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (374 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love. LONESOME DOVE was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, and won seven. It won two Golden Globes including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
17) True grit
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
18) Wild horses
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a fifteen-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott's estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death; even putting her own life...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel, Meechum's battleground is the family home, with his objective...
20) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.