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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three Oxford buddies fight on opposite sides during WWI. Each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience. The most expensive movie of its time, the film features extensive aerial photography of a dogfight between R.A.F and German fighter planes.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The outlaw: Jane Russell plays a busty siren who steals the heart of Billy the Kid in this Howard Hughes directed story which centers on the rivalrous, tentative friendships between Billy, Doc Holiday & Pat Garrett.
Santa Fe trail: Michael Curtiz directs this historical western which tells the stories of confederate soldier Jeb Stuart and General George Armstrong Custer as they fight the abolitionist John Brown.
7) The outlaw
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday are being pursued by a sheriff, they compete for a woman's affection.
8) The outlaw
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Loosely-based on the historic saga of the life and crimes of Billy the Kid, this film tells of Billy's meeting with Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett at a way station where they quarrel over a half-breed girl.
10) The outlaw
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Notorious western tells the tale of Billy the Kid and the sexy dame (Jane Russell) who loves him."
11) The front page
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Pat o'Brien in one of his first films, flies through the role of Hildy Johnson, the ace tabloid reporter, who has dreams of getting married and straightening out his life. Also, the sleek Adophe Menjou is his boss, the wily editor Walter Burns, who is desperate to keep Hildy on staff to cover an upcoming execution.
12) Underwater!
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Treasure hunters face the dangers of the deep in Underwater!, RKOs romantic action-adventure set in the exotic undersea world of the Caribbean. Hollywood beauty Jane Russell is Theresa, girlfriend of ship operator Johnny, who teams up with perennial rainbow chaser Dominic. They hunt for fabled treasure lost in an old Spanish galleon off the Cuban coast. Amid the threat of rapacious sharks and the hazards of underwater salvaging, the adventurers work...
Series
Film noir classic collection volume Vol. 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort, $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. -- container.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
[Border incident]: The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder. [His kind of woman]: Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. [Lady in the lake]: Philip...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma.
Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his descent into madness. Bestselling biographer Charles Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes:
* his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn,...
Author
Series
Toby Peters mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Howard Hughes hires Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters to find stolen blueprints in the "marvelously entertaining" series (Newsday).
Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secrets. He likes to keep them—and he definitely doesn't like having them stolen. Hollywood PI Toby Peters has a rep for being discreet. So when the film tycoon and aviation magnate needs a detective to very privately investigate...
Millionaire Howard Hughes likes his secrets. He likes to keep them—and he definitely doesn't like having them stolen. Hollywood PI Toby Peters has a rep for being discreet. So when the film tycoon and aviation magnate needs a detective to very privately investigate...
18) The hoax
Author
Language
English
Description
The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax that stunned the publishing world, is the story of his faked "autobiography" of Howard Hughes. HOAX was first published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch THE HOAX until now. One major publisher offered a $500,000 advance when the book was nearing completion, drew up the contract...then...
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