Truman Capote
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2013, c1965
Language
English
Description
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold...
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
Series
Centennial collection volume 5
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer.
11) In cold blood
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
13) One Christmas
Language
English
Description
A young boy leaves his home in the country with his aunt to spend the holidays with his estranged father in the big city. In his search for Santa in New Orleans, he finds more than he could ever hope for.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
16) Murder by death
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lionel Twain, an eccentric millionaire, invites five famous detectives to dinner and reveals to them that someone will die at midnight.
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he also has to deal with his mother's budding romance with...