Walter Mirisch
1) Midway
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Dramatic personal stories of the men who fought the courageous battle that was to be the Pacific turning point for the United States.
3) Mr. Majestyk
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Ex-con and Vietnam vet, Mr. Majestyk, whose efforts to run a straight business seem thwarted at every turn-- a town tough harasses him for employment of Hispanic migrant workers on his farm, the local police jail him on a false charge, and a Mafia hitman destroys his crop for crossing him during a jailbreak-- finally reaches the end of his fuse. With rifle in hand and his girlfriend at the wheel of his pickup, Majestyk goes after the syndicate assassin....
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"When a prostitute is murdered in San Francisco's ritzy Nob Hill district, an anonymous tip implicates minister and political crusader Reverend Logan Sharpe, Lt. Virgil Tibbs, who has known Sharpe for many years, asks to be assigned to the case in hopes of clearing his friend's name. So begins the detective's journey through a twisted maze of baffling evidence, frantic chases, deadly gunfire and bad alibis. Before long, Tibbs finds himself bitterly...
Series
Criterion collection volume 959
Description
"Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief, who faces mounting pressure from Sparta’s hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town." --container
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The organization: "The dangerous world of international heroin trafficking is exposed in this elaborate and suspenseful crime thriller."--container.
Sheba, baby: "Living in Chicago, a female P.I. is summoned back to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky because someone is trying to force her father out of business"--container.