Walter Pidgeon
2) Big Red
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A wealthy sportsman hires a young, backwoods French Canadian orphan boy to exercise his champion Irish setter, Big Red. The bonds of loyalty that spring up between man, boy and dog lead them all into a succession of adventures, climaxing in a life-or-death confrontation with an unexpected adversary.
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This sequel to the hit Mrs. Miniver continues with the story of the family's determination to survive the war and rebuild their shattered lives. World War II has finally ended and England slowly limps back to normal as men come home from the front and families start to reconstruct their lives.
5) Hit the deck
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Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other guys try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral ...
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Tells the story of an underwater search for three men who are trapped inside Ocean Lab II, a sea laboratory which has fallen into an underwater trench as a result of an earthquake in the depths of the ocean.
Suspenseful drama about a desperate search for a lost sea-going laboratory.
7) Cinderella
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The timeless magic of Cinderella returns with Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1965 version of the classic tale filled with music, singing and magic. A poor and mistreated servant girl is transformed into a beautiful princess with the help of her fairy godmother, a pumpkin, a glass slipper and belief in impossible things in order to attend a lavish ball and find her prince!
8) The rack
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Wounded and weakened in Korean prison camps, GIs descend from the plane that returned them to U.S. soil. It is a time of tearful family reunions. A time of uncertainty about how to help traumatized men. And a time of reckoning: Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr., a silver-star hero and ex-POW, faces trial for collaboration with the enemy.
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This romantic drama is set during post-WWII high society Paris. Writer and war veteran Charles Wills returns to the Left Bank to reminisce about his life after the liberation of the City of Lights. There he meets wealthy American eccentric James Ellswirth and his daughters, Marian and the beautiful but frivolous Helen. Although Marion loves Charles, he marries Helen instead, and the two begin a family. Their happiness soon spirals into tragedy when...
11) Man hunt
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A British hunter on vacation in the Bavarian Alps, in the forests near Adolf Hitler's home, gets Hitler in his gun sight, pondering whether or not he should shoot him.
12) Advise & consent
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A Senate sub-committee meets to confirm the President's controversial nominee for Secretary of State.
13) Forbidden planet
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A classic science-fiction retelling of The Tempest. A group of space travelers lands on a planet populated by a scientist, his daughter, and his robot. Soon, the crew finds there is an invisible monster lurking about as well.
14) Funny girl
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A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
15) Soldiers three
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Soldiers in Her Majesty's army, Privates Ackroyd, Sykes, and Malloy are known as the Queen's Hard Bargain, as likely to get into barroom brawls with the entire Scottish army as to bravely defend their regiment on the battlefield. Their commanders, Colonel Brunswick and Captain Pindenny, are tasked with bringing some order into this tightly knit squad of hellions while attempting to quell rebellion in the wilds of nineteenth-century India.
17) Madame Curie
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"In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science"--Container.
19) Julia misbehaves
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Dancehall girl Julia Packett has not seen her daughter since shortly after her birth, forced to separate from the upper class husband by the snobby clan he calls family. Depending on her beauty, wiles and the kindness of a variety of gentlemen, she is startled to receive a wedding invitation in the post. An invite from the same daughter, Susan, she has not seen in 20 years.