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...
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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...
6) 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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"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.
10) FDR
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"This one-man show takes us through FDR's White House years"--Container.
11) 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....
12) 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.
13) 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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"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.
15) A woman's secret
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"Through mesmerizing flashbacks, the story is told of Marian Washburn, a once-prominent singer who begins to lose her voice. To continue her unfulfilled dreams, she coaches Susan Caldwell, a coarse and promiscuous singer, into the big time. But then Caldwell rebels against her mentor, and we soon learn that Caldwell has been shot. Even though Washburn confesses that she pulled the trigger, the murder and events leading up to it remain a baffling mystery"--Container....
16) Battleground
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"December 1944. A gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler's fierce, final counteroffensive by Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh"--Container.
17) Go for broke!
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A must-watch for both WWII-history and war-movie buff that tells the story of the Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd Regiment who fought in Europe during WWII.
18) The last hunt
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Charles Gilson is a brutal buffalo hunter who kills purely for sport and enjoyment. Sandy McKenzie is a former hunter who is tired of killing. When Charley kills an Indian raiding party, and takes their squaw as his own, tension develops between the two hunters, and matters will only be settled in a showdown.
19) Battleground
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Follows a group of World War II soldiers through the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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A young child sits quietly at the police station, unwilling to answer questions about himself or how he lost his hair. But when he finds out that his parents are killed in an air raid, his hair turns green. While the townspeople label him as an outcast, fellow war orphans stand behind him, encouraging Peter to turn his green hair into a symbol of the futility of war.