William Goldman
3) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist, and a lawman all head for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Butch and Sundance head up the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch's specialty is he's an idea man. Sundance is a true gunfighter. When Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a relentless posse is sent to track them down. Finally able to outrun the posse, Butch suggests that he, Sundance and his girlfriend Etta, try Bolivia, thinking Bolivian banks will be easy targets. Based loosely on the exploits of the historical characters.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Buttercup loves Westley, but when he is captured by pirates and assumed dead, she is chosen by the evil Prince Humperdinck to be his bride, beginning a series of fantastic efforts to free her by the 'Dread Pirate Roberts' and a collection of unlikely heroes.
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Only the most incredible parts of the story are true in this adventure set in 1896 East Africa. There, two lions on man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food-and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop...
9) Misery
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
10) Marathon Man
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A lion on a man-eating rampage has shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beast hunts, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, it's killing for sport rather than for food--and it has an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await it. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop this unstoppable monster. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become...