Scat Man Crothers
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"America is the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. [A] courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her extraordinary odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf and a hardened drifter. A brilliant, moving tapestry, woven of courage and perseverance"--Container.
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Although he has a happy life one a farm, Banjo can't stop getting into trouble! When his dad threatens to punish him for leaping off a roof, Banjo decides to run away, so he hops aboard a fee truck bound for Salt Lake City. But the kitten soon learns that while the city is exciting, it's also dangerous. Cold, hungry and alone, Banjo longs to return home. His only hope for getting back to the farm lies with an alley cat named Crazy Legs.
7) The shootist
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A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
9) Tarzan
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Tarzan and the trappers: Tarzan becomes very angry when animal trappers invade his jungle domain. When he frees his animal friends, it is Tarzan himself who becomes the big game, viciously tracked down by an evil hunter ; Tarzan and the Green goddess: Tarzan retells the story of his adventure from the comfort of his recnetly recouped English manor, in perfect, unbroken English; very strange ; Tarzan of the apes: Tarzan, in actuality, is Lord Greystoke....
10) The shining
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Writer Jack Torrance, a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel's stored energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane, and there may be no escape for his family.
11) Working
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Musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's book, with songs by James Taylor, Stephen Schwartz and others.
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Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted black family (mother, daughter, uncle) living in Chicago during the time that civil rights leaders were starting to organize protest marches in the South. The family members essentially accept the old values and cherish what they love, and are uncomfortable by marches and talks of fighting. A blind street singer (Richard Ward, in a bravura performance) intrudes briefly into their lives, with shattering effect....
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The Huckleberry Hound show: Six episodes that each include 3 segments: one following the adventures of a blue anthropomorphic dog who speaks with a Southern drawl; another following the adventures of twin mice, Pixie and Dixie, and a cat named Mr. Jinks; and the third following the adventures of Yogi Bear and his sidekick, Boo Boo.
Hong Kong Phooey: Follows the adventures of a somewhat inept canine superhero and martial arts master who is always...
15) Truck Turner
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The great Isaac Hayes (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka) stars in this powerful, pull-out-the-stops crime thriller from director Jonathan Kaplan (White Line Fever). It's a gritty, action-packed tale of the streets, pulsating with ultra-smooth soul, high-octane energy and nonstop suspense. Truck Turner (Hayes) is a football star-turned-bounty hunter who's tracking a sadistic pimp on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Armed with his brute strength and ace cool...
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Black Belt Jones: Pop Boyd owns a thriving karate school near downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it sits on a piece of land the Mafia wants to acquire to develop its own civic center. When the mob's muscling of Pop leads to tragedy, Black Belt Jones steps forward to exact his individual brand of lighting-charged revenge.
Hot potato: After kidnapping the daughter of a U.S. Senator, a power hungry Oriental warlord thinks he's holding all the aces...
18) Bronco Billy
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Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a down-on-its-luck traveling Wild West show. Along the way he picks up a snooty, rich young woman who was left in the desert by her fiancé without any money. He likes her spirit and hires her as his assistant.
19) Roots
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An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Tarzan the fearless: Tarzan wrestles lions and other beasts, thwarts human evil-doers, and falls in love. Tarzan at the movies: A profile of Johnny Weissmuller. The new adventures of Tarzan: The plot takes Tarzan from the jungles of Africa to the jungles of Guatemala to find his missing friend, as well as a mysterious pagan idol. Tarzan at the movies: A history tracing the cinema Tarzans from the silent era to recent versions. Tarzan and the green...