Dore Schary
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New York adman Jim Blandings is ready to say goodbye to his cramped city apartment and build, from the ground up, a Connecticut home with room enough for his growing family and dreams. All it will cost him is his time and money and perhaps his job, marriage, happiness, and what's left of his sanity. Goodbye, Manhattan. Hello, comedy. Jim is a flustered poster boy for homeowner anxiety in this gleeful laugh-fest. Aspect ratio is dependent on TV model....
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"World War II is over, and millions of GIs forever changed by the war return to a nation far different from the one they left. Among them are three Marines: Bill, an easygoing cowpoke with a silver plate in his head and a dream of buying a ranch; Perry, a once-promising boxer who lost his legs in combat; and the youngest, Cliff, who went to war a boy and came back a man. Once home, Cliff meets a gentle war widow as profoundly altered by the conflict...
4) Dream wife
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Tarji is beautiful and trained from birth to anticipate her husband's every need and she is Clemson Reed's bride-to-be. So why is he whispering romantic endearments to another woman?
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Criterion collection volume 880
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"Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America s outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life...
7) Boys Town
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Story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
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One of the all-time great Hollywood chillers! A murderer is targeting disabled young women in a New England town, and Helen, a mute servant in a Gothic mansion, is terrified she's next. Mrs. Warren, the invalid, bullying mistress of the house, warns Helen to leave at once, rather than rely on her weak son and stepson for protection. But even as Helen is packing her things, she suspects she may be too late and the murderer is closer than she ever imagined....
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"Through no fault of his own, artist and lady's man Richard Nugent finds a love-besotted teenage girl curled on his sofa. Through no fault of his own, the teen's sister is a judge who 'sentences' thunderstruck Richard to date the girl until her schoolgirl crush wanes. Circumstances aren't kind to Richard but they certainly are hilarious"--Container.
12) The swan
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A shy princess's head tells her to wed a worldly Crown Prince, but her heart is drawn to a dashing commoner. Garbed in dreamy Helen Rose gowns, surrounded by Mittel-European opulence, the leading lady dances, duels, flirts, falls in love and makes even the most jaded moviegoer want to believe in fairy tales.
13) Designing woman
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An easy-going, unpolished sportswriter and a sophisticated clothing designer meet, fall in love and marry while both are visiting California. When they return to their homes in New York, they decide to live in her plush apartment, and their differences soon emerge.
15) FDR
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"This one-man show takes us through FDR's White House years"--Container.
16) Crossfire
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"Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. 'Hate', Finlay says, 'is like a gun.' ... Finlay is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects and Montgomery [is] a vicious bigot, a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S."--Container....
17) Young Tom Edison
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The teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge.
18) Boys Town
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Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
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They are rugged pioneers, Indian fighters and brave trailblazers who tame the wild west. These are the women of the great frontier. Buck Wyatt is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train comprised of two ex-show girls, a hearty widow and fifteen men who act as guides. When one of the men disobeys Buck's orders not to fraternize with the ladies, Buck shoots him, causing the others to desert. The determined women insist on going on, learning...
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"In 1620, a group of religious outcasts boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World, where they founded a tiny wilderness outpost that was the genesis for what would become the United States of America. This is their thrilling story, a tale of hardship and devotion, and of storms, hunger and disease faced and defied"--Container.