Popular Culture Video List
Hum 261: Science Fiction | Hum 262: American Western | Hum 263: Detective Fiction
Hum 264: Spy Thriller | Hum 265: Noir Film and Fiction |  Hum 266: Travel Literature

Hum 261: Science Fiction

ANDROMEDA STRAIN
COCC Library Video 647
1970; Home video: 1986, 1990, MCA/Universal Pictures (2 hrs. 10 min.); Rated: G
Dir. & Prod. Robert Wise; Screenplay: Nelson Gidding; Based on the novel by Michael Crichton;
Starring Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid.
Plot Summary:  A remote village in New Mexico is contaminated by a crashed satellite. Scientists fight the clock trying to analyze the lethal organism and discover a solution.

BLADE RUNNER 
COCC Library Video 255
1982; Home video: 1992, New Line-Columbia TriStar; 10th anniversary ed. (117 min.); Rated: R
Dir. Ridley Scott; Prod. Michael Deeley; Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples;
Based on the novel by...get this info!!
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah.
Plot Summary: Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans, which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.

BRAZIL
COCC Library Video 1045
1985, MCA Universal Home Video (131 min.)

THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
COCC Library Call No.: PN1997 .B765 1996
1984; Home video: 1996, United American Video-Gemstone Entertainment (108 min.)
Dir. & ed. John Sayles; Prod. Peggy Rajski and Maggie Renzi
Starring:  Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson
Plot Summary: An extraterrestrial who resembles an African-American flees slavery on a distant planet and crash lands in New York City. He blends in with the earthling residents of Harlem, makes friends, and helps bring down a drug lord while avoiding capture by a pair of alien bounty hunters.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE
COCC Library Video 253
1971: Home Video: 1991, Warner Home Video (137 min.)
Dir., Prod. & Writer:  Stanley Kubrick; Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.
Starring:  Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee.
Plot Summary:  Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime.

DESTINATION MOON
COCC Library Call No.: PN1997 .D47 1997
1950; Home Video: 1997, Englewood Entertainment, Wade Williams Collection Series (91 min.)
Dir. Irving Pichel; Prod. George Pal; Screenplay: Rip Van Ronkel, Robert Heinlein, James O'Hanlon.
Based on Rocketship Galileo, by Robert A. Heinlein.
Starring:  John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien Moore.
Plot Summary: One of the earliest feature-length science fiction films produced in the United States, this saga follows humankind's first rocketship voyage to the moon.

FAHRENHEIT 451 (Humanities Dept. Holding)
Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury (COCC Library PS3552.R142 F3 1953)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
COCC Library Call No.: PN1997 .I58 1988 
1956; Home Video: Republic Pictures, Collectors Classics Series, 1988 (80 min.), Not Rated.
Dir. Ellsworth Fredricks; Prod. Walter Wanger; Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring;
Based on the Collier's Magazine Serial "The Body Snatchers," by Jack Finney.
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine.
Plot Summary: When Dr. Miles Bennell becomes puzzled by his patient's disturbing behavior, he slowly begins to unravel the bizarre mystery that plagues the town. It seems an extraterrestrial form of plant life has descended on the village, giant "pods" containing formless aliens that are systematically taking over the bodies of townspeople whenever they sleep. Now only he and a small band of friends are left to warn the world of the deadly invasion!

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE  
COCC Library PN1997 .I759 1994 
1953; Home Video: 1994, MCA/Universal (80 min.).
Dir. Jack Arnold; Prod. William Alland; Screenplay: Harry Essex.
Based on the short story "The Meteor" by Ray Bradbury.
Starring: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush.
Plot Summary: After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth. With subtitles.

METROPOLIS (Humanities Dept. Holding)

PLANET OF THE APES
COCC Library PN1997 .P52 1998 
1967; Home Video: 1998, CBS/Fox, Collector's ed. Widescreen Series (112 min.).
 Dir. Franklin Schaffner; Prod. Arthur P. Jacobs; Screenplay: Michael Wilson & Rod Serling.
Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore.
Plot Summary: Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes

QUARTERMASS 2: ENEMY FROM SPACE
COCC Library [Catalog number not given Online]
1957; Home Video: 1999, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Hammer Collection (85 min.); Not Rated.
Dir. Val Guest; Prod. Anthony Hinds; Screenplay: Nigel Kineale and Val Guest.
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Sidney James, John Longdon, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, William Franklyn.
Plot Summary: Quartermass 2 (retitled Enemy From Space for the U.S.) was the first movie sequel to use numeric designation. In the original BBC serial, "2" also referred to Quartermass' unstable atomic rocket, his second attempt to conquer space. Sequel to Hammer's first world-wide hit "The Quartermass Experiment" (The Creeping Unknown in the U.S.)

RED DWARF I, PART 1: The End; Future Echoes; Balance of Power
COCC Library  PN1992.8.S35 R42 1988
1988; London: BBC Video/Beverly Hills, CA: Fox Video (87 min.)
Dir. Ed. Bye; Prod. Paul Jackson; Screenplay: Rob Grant & Doug Naylor.
Starring: Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett.
Description:  Videocassette release of the first 3 episodes of the television series Red Dwarf, originally broadcast on BBC2.

SLEEPER (Humanities Dept. Holding)

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 
Paramount, 188 min. 2 cassettes:
    Encounter at Far Point: COCC Library Video 1042
    All Good Things: COCC Library Video 1043

THE TERMINATOR
COCC Library PN1997 .T475 1995 
1984; Home Video: 1995, LIVE Entertainment, Letterbox Version (108 min.)
Dir. James Cameron; Screenplay: James Cameron, with Gale Anne Hurd.
Starring:  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton.
Plot Summary: In 2029, the rulers of this planet have devised the ultimate plan. They will reshape the future by changing the past. The plan requires something that feels no pity, no pain, and no fear. They create the Terminator, a cyborg sent to present day earth to kill a young woman whose life will have great significance in the decades to come.

THEM (Humanities Dept. Holding)

THIS ISLAND EARTH
COCC Library Video 889
 1955; Home VIdeo: 1983, MCA (86 min.)
Dir. Joseph Newman; Prod. William Alland; Screenplay: Franklin Coen & Edward G. O'Callaghan
Based on the novel by Raymond F. Jones.
Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson.
Plot Summary: In this classic, we encounter death rays, mutant bugs, college sweethearts turned nuclear fission experts, and a visit to the planet Metaluna via spaceship to aid Exeter in the defense of his planet.

THX-1138
COCC Library PN1997 .T49 1991
1971; Home Video: 1991, Warner Home Video (86 min.); Rated: PG.
Dir. George Lucas; Prod. Francis Ford Coppola and Lawrence Sturhahn; Screenplay: George Lucas & Walter Murch.  Based on a story by George Lucas.
Starring:  Donald Pleasence, Robert Duvall.
Plot Summary: In the 25th century high-tech computerized world where men and women work in a drug-soothed stupor with no names, identities, hardships and memories of the birthrights they have foresaken, two workers pass up their daily drug requirements and experience sexual desire. They begin to feel, want and think and the machines close in to stop them. Notable as George Lucas' first film.

TOTAL RECALL
COCC Library Video 648
1990; Carolco Home Video (113 min.); Rated: R.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven; Prod. Buxx Feitshans & Ronald Shusett; Inspired by the short story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," by Phillip K. Dick.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone.
Plot Summary: A worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled over by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.

TWELVE MONKEYS
COCC Library PN1997 .T836 1996
1995; Home Video: MCA Universal, Letterbox ed. (130 min.).
Dir. Terry Gilliam; Prod. Charles Roven; Screenplay: David Peoples & Janer Peoples.
Starring:  Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer.

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH
COCC Library PN1995.9.M6 T83 1995 
1957; Home Video: 1995, Columbia TriStar Home Video (83 min.).
Dir. Nathan Juran; Prod. Charles H. Schneer; Screenplay Bob Williams & Christopher Knopf
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor.
Plot Summary: An American rocketship returns from a flight to Venus but crashes in Italy, leaving behind a cute little creature from Venus. Unfortunately, the little creature doesn't stay little for long and threatens to tear apart the Colosseum.

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
COCC Library PN1997 .V68 1977 
1961; Home Video: 1977, Magnetic Video Corp. (105 min.).
Dir. and Prod.  Irwin Allen; Screenplay Irwin Allen & Charles Bennett.
Starring:  Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling.
Plot Summary: Navy Admiral Nelson takes scientists in his futuristic atomic submarine to explode a belt of radiation.

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
COCC Library PN1997 .W49 1991 
1951; Home Video: 1991, Paramount Pictures (81 min.); Rated: G.
Dir. Rudolph Maté; Prod. George Palo; Screenplay Syndney Boehm.  Based on the novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
Starring:  Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Judith Ames, Stephen Chase, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, Sandro Giglio.
Plot Summary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.

Hum 262: The American Western
 w--western

ALONG CAME JONES w/lib

AMERICAN CINEMA nw/lib

BLAZING SADDLES 1974 93 MIN. w/lib

DANCES WITH WOLVES w/lib

HIGH NOON (1952), dir. Fred Zinnemann, 84 min. w/lib

HOLLYWOOD GREATS IN THE EARLY WESTERNS 1933_1943 3 cas w/lib

HOMBRE w/lib

IMAGES OF INDIANS (VOL. 1), THE GREAT MOVIE MASSACRE w/lib

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN w/lib

McCABE AND MRS. MILLER w/lib

THE MISFITS (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946), dir. John Ford w/lib

THE OX-BOW INCIDENT w/lib

THE PROFESSIONALS w/lib

RED RIVER (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

SEARCHERS (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON w/hum

THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE w/lib

STAGECOACH (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

TENDER MERCIES w/lib

UNFORGIVEN w/lib

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE; BLOOD IN THE DUST 50 MIN. w/lib

WEST OF THE IMAGINATION _ PLAY THE LEGEND (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

WEST OF THE IMAGINATION _ THE ROMANTIC HORIZON (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

WEST OF THE IMAGINATION _ THE WILD RIDERS (Humanities Dept. Holding)
w/hum

 

Hum 263: Detective Fiction
 d-detective 

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE 1945 97 MIN. d/lib

APARTMENT ZERO d/lib

ASPHALT JUNGLE d/lib., dir. John Huston, 1950, 112 min.

THE BIG SLEEP d/lib

CHINATOWN (1974), 130 min., dir. Roman Polanski, dn/lib

DRAGNET d/lib

FURY (1936), dir. Fritz Lang, 89 min. d/lib

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967 111 min., d/lib

LAURA d/lib

LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER (Humanities Dept. Holding)
d/hum

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941), dir. John Huston, 101 min. d/lib

THE PLAYER d/lib

THE STREET WITH NO NAME (1948), 91 min. d/lib

And from Film Series (organized by Greg Lyons)
 http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/courses/film/filmseries.html  

The Usual Suspects (1995) 
Online handouts prepared by Cora Agatucci (16 Nov. 2001)
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Online handout prepared by Cora Agatucci (3 Nov. 2000

 

 

Hum 264: The Spy Thriller
spy--spy thriller 

ABOVE SUSPICION (Humanities Dept. Holding)
spy/hum

THE ATOMIC CAFÉ (1982), 88 min., spy/lib

THE AVENGERS (1965), spy/lib

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT spy/lib

COVER UP: Behind The Iran Contra Affair (Humanities Dept. Holding)
spy/hum

DR. STRANGELOVE sci/lib

GORKY PARK , 128 min, spy/lib

THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET 1945 88 MIN. spy/lib

THE LOOKING GLASS WAR 1969 108 MIN. spy/lib

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1974), 140 min., sci/lib

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer, 129 min. spy/lib

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE spy/lib

THE NAKED RUNNER spy/lib

NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH 1940 94 MIN. spy/lib

ROGUE MALE , 100 min, spy/lib

39 STEPS spy/lib

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR , 118 min, spy/lib

TORN CURTAIN , 129 min., dir. Alfred Hitchcock, spy/lib

 

Hum 265: Noir Film and Fiction
 n-film noir 

ALL ABOUT EVE (Humanities Dept. Holding)
 n/hum

AMERICAN CINEMA nw/lib

BEWARE MY LOVELY (1952), 77 min., n/lib

THE BIG CLOCK (1948), dir. John Farrow, 95 min. n/lib

THE BIG HEAT (1953), dir. Fritz Lang, 89 min., n/hum

BLOOD SIMPLE (1984), 96 min., dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, n/lib

BLUE DAHLIA 1946 85 min n/lib

THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953), dir. Fritz Lang, 90 min., n/lib

BODY HEAT (1981), 113 min., dir. Lawrence Kasdan, n/lib

BREATHLESS (1959), dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 89 min. n/lib

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari n/lib

CAUSE FOR ALARM 1951 73 min n/lib

CHINATOWN (1974), 130 min., dir. Roman Polanski, dn/lib

COMPULSION (1959), dir. Richard Fleischer, 103 min. n/lib

DARK PASSAGE n/hum

DETOUR 1945 68 min n/lib

D.O.A., 1950, 83 min. n/lib.

DOUBLE INDEMINITY, dir. Billy Wilder, 1944, 107 min. n/lib

FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, dir. Dick Richards, 1975, 95 min. n/lib

FORCE OF EVIL n/lib

GILDA n/lib dir. Charles Vidor, 1946, 110 min.

THE GRIFTERS (1990), 114 min., n/lib ON ORDER

THE HITCHHIKER (1953), dir. Ida Lupino, 71 min., n/lib

HOUSE OF GAMES (1987), 102 min., dir. David Mamet, n/lib

IN A LONELY PLACE (1950), 91 min., n/lib ON ORDER

THE KILLERS (1964), dir. Don Siegel, 95 min. n/lib

KISS ME DEADLY, dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955, 105 min. n/lib

KISS OF DEATH 1947 98 min n/lib

LADY FROM SHANGHAI, dir. Orson Welles, 1948, 87 min. n/lib

LONE STAR (1996), dir. John Sayles, 138 min. n/lib

THE LOST WEEKEND, dir. Billy Wilder, 1945, 100 min. n/lib

MILDRED PIERCE n/lib dir. Michael Curtiz, 1945, 109 min.

MURDER MY SWEET (1944), dir. Edward Dmytryk, 95 min. n/lib

THE NAKED CITY (1948), dir. Jules Dassin, 96 min. n/lib

NIGHT MOVES (1975), 100 min., n/lib

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) 
n/lib dir. Charles Laughton,  93 min.

OPEN CITY (1945)
dir. Roberto Rossellini, 103 min. n/lib

OUT OF THE PAST (1947) (Humanities Dept. Holding) 
dir. Jacques Tourneur, 97 min., n/hum

PICK UP ON SOUTH STREET, n/lib, dir. Samuel Fuller, 1953, 80 min.

PITFALL (1948), dir. Andre DeToth, 88 min. n/lib

POINT BLANK (1967), 89 min., n/lib ON ORDER

POSSESSED, dir. Clarence Brown, 1947, 108 min. n/lib

POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, Tay Garnett, 1946, 113 min. n/lib

PULP FICTION (1994), 164 min., n/lib

RAW DEAL, dir. Anthony Mann, 1948, 79 min. n/lib.

RED ROCK WEST n/lib

THE SCAR (1948), 83 min. n/lib

SCARLET STREET, dir. Fritz Lang , 1945, 105 min. n/lib

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
(1946), 117 min., n/lib

SUNSET BOULEVARD (Humanities Dept. Holding)
n/hum

THE THIRD MAN n/lib

T-MEN (1947), 92 min., n/lib

TOUCH OF EVIL n/lib

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944)  (Humanities Dept. Holding)
 dir. Fritz Lang, 99 min.

 

Hum 266: Travel Literature
  t-travel

EGYPT t/lib

ENCHANTED CITIES OF EUROPE t/lib

EXOTIC FAR EAST t/lib

KON-TIKI (1951), 58 min., t/lib

MAYA: LORDS OF THE JUNGLE t/lib

MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1952), dir. Jacques Tati, 91 min. t/lib

TABU (1931) dir. F. W. Murnau, 82 min., t/lib

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the list compiled by Greg Lyons, Humanities Dept., March 2000
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 Last updated: 01 March 2005
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