Byron Haskin
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Jane Palmer and her husband Alan mysteriously have $60,000 literally dropped in their laps. The circumstances seem mighty suspicious to Alan, who wants to turn the money over to the police. But in a materialistic rapture, Jane won't let it go. She doesn't care where it came from, or what danger it might ensue. Enter Danny Fuller, who claims the money belongs to him. Let the games begin!
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Criterion collection volume 404
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English
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Spun from Daniel DeFoe's tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe — but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. Draper, Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West), and a test monkey look as if they are going to collide with a meteor. Draper and the chimp are able to eject themselves from the vessel, but...
5) Dive bomber
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A new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of altitude sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. The real stars of the film are the pre-World War II Navy aircraft as well as the USS Enterprise featured in full color.
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Killer classics volume Disc 5
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English
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A bickering couple finds a bag of money in the back seat of their car. The husband wants to turn the illicit cash in, but his money-hungry wife has a different idea -- and she'll do anything to realize it.
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"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work, " Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men.
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"This chilling adaptation of H. G. Wells' frightening novel [has] humans intrigued when a meteor-like object crashes to Earth but its occupants are definitely not friendly. The assault on Earth is underway, and the Martian machines -- hovering 'swan'-shaped vehicles of destruction' are both beautiful and terrifying as they cut a relentless path of annihilation"--Container.
10) The naked jungle
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"A powerful, brooding plantation owner of a plantation in the wild and treacherous South American jungle is wary [of] his charming American mail-order bride and wonders why she would leave America for the rigors of jungle life. They're both threatened by the advance of billions of relentless killer ants that are making their way across the jungle cutting a path of creeping horror 20 miles long and two miles wide"--Container.
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In this loose adaptation of the classic Robert Lewis Stevenson story, Robert Newton reprises his role as the parrot-toting, peg-legged Long John Silver. With fresh clues to the location of the famed loot on Treasure Island, Long John Silver and his sidekick, Hawkins, set out to locate the riches.
13) I walk alone
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Partners Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. Years later Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
14) The power
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Who has The Power? The Power to control minds, move objects, and murder by telekinesis? That's what scientists at a space lab want to know when they realize they are targeted by one of their own, someone who possesses a superhuman power and a terrifying secret agenda.
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During a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, a freak accident involving an exploding rocket shrinks American agent Mel Hunter to the size of six inches. But instead of ending his career, it turns out to be to his, and ₃The Bureau₂s₄, advantage as the pocket-sized operative can infiltrate areas closed off to the average G-man. Hunter is aided by his full-sized partner Agent Bill Winters, gal Friday Miss Brown, and Bureau Commissioner Hall....
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D.O.A.: On vacation from his clinging girlfriend, a complacent accountant unknowingly swallows a drink spiked with radioactive poison and then spends the last desperate hours of his life trying to find out who killed him -- and why.
Detour: Hitchhiking across the country to reunite with his girlfriend, the film's "hero" encounters two sinister characters -- one of them a venomous, blackmailing woman whom he accidentally murders.
Stranger: Orson...
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This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at Cadiz. Middle-aged Elizabeth, so attracted to the younger Devereux but fearful of his influence and popularity, sends him on a new mission: a doomed campaign to Ireland. When he and his troops return in...
18) The first Texan
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"Determined to escape politics and strife, Sam Houston crosses the Red River into Texas -- into the tumultuous politics and looming conflict of the Free Texas movement. From Houston's early reluctance to join the Texas cause to his interactions with familiar historical figures, (Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson among them), to his victory over the forces of General Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto, [it] traces the exploits of the man who would...
19) Captain Sindbad
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Sindbad takes on an evil wizard to save the princess he loves and the downtrodden people of Baristan.
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There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. The entire second season is seventeen episodes, an artifact from a time now vanished forever, a compendium of portals into worlds unknown. A five-disc set that controls over fifteen hours of transmission from the 1964-1965 series, this vessel has one specific purpose: to expand your mind to The Outer Limits!