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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A hobo stumbles onto a water spring and creates a profitable weigh station.
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Cast: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner. Directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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Categories: Western ∙ Housing ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 167 min.
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Plot: A ship captain ventures west to marry the woman he loves and finds a hotbed of jealousy, hatred, and rivalries.
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Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives. Directed by William Wyler.
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Categories: Western ∙ Romance ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A cattle baron's son takes the fall for a crime his father commits. His father dies while he is in jail and his three half brothers inherit the land, but must face his vengeance when he's released.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Winmark. Directed by Edward Dmytryx.
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Categories: Western ∙ Land Use ∙ Family |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 82 min.
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Plot: Hard times lie ahead for a family when their house is "compulsorily acquired" to allow for an expansion of the airport.
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Cast: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry. Directed by Rob Sitch.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Land Use ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 131 min.
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Plot: A private eye is hired to investigate the extra-marital affair of a Los Angeles socialite, but ends up investigating a murder relating to a battle for the city's water rights.
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Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Huston. Directed by Roman Polanski.
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Categories: Evidence ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 109 min.
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Plot: Four friends get more than they bargained for on a canoe trip in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Directed by John Boorman.
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Categories: Land Use ∙ Poverty ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
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Cast: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker, Tom Berenger, Frances Tomelty. Directed by Jim Sheridan.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 91 min.
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Plot: A journey into the customs and beliefs of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Cast: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun. Directed by Jayro Bustamante.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Documentary ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 111 min.
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Plot: A representative from an American oil company finds himself set upon by local eccentrics when he is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village.
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Cast: Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Burt Lancaster. Directed by Bill Forsyth.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Corporations ∙ Land Use |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 81 min. B&W
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Plot: When a greedy oilman murders his father, a peace-loving sailor is forced to take on an entire frontier town.
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Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Martin, Ned Young, Victor Millan. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
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Categories: Western ∙ Land Use ∙ Criminal Law |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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