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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A group of gangsters from Boston move to Florida during the Prohibition era, where they face competition including the Ku Klux Klan.
It's the roaring twenties and prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing...
7) Chicago
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
9) The boob
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Farm boy Peter Good's best gal runs off with a bootlegger. So the hapless boob goes running after them ... and straight into culture-clash farce that pits his hick heroism ... against the wiles of slick-haired gangsters and gin-soaked jazz babies."--Container.
10) Chicago
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[[2014] 2014]
Language
English
Description
Murderesses on death row, Velma Kelly and Roxy Hart vie for fame and freedom in Chicago during the 1920s.
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
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