Richard Jordan
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An American special agent embarks on a mission to recover vital material for the United States' defence, believed to be contained in the sunken ship Titanic. The ship is too deep for divers so it must be raised, in absolute secrecy. But the extreme rigours of the climate, deadly interference from a rival nation and the need to invent new technology hamper the mission.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is aided by a good bishop and pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert, expresses the author's humanitarian interest in the suffering of the common people.
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a small time hood Eddie (Robert Mitchum) is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. *"A good, tough unsentimental movie about the last days of a small-time Boston Hood." - Vincent Canby, **The New York Times*** *"...give him [Robert Mitchum] a character and the room to develop it, and what he does is...
6) The Yakuza
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan - and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. He returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the brutal Japanese mafia.