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Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.
2) Milk money
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Twelve-year-old Frank has a challenge bringing together his shy single dad and gorgeous, warm-hearted V, a "working girl" being chased by a ruthless mobster
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Arizona Territory, 1898. Peter Van Hoek is set up for a crime and does his time in Yuma Prison. Now, he's ready for payback. He cons the mining boss who set him up, by selling him a fortune in gold that comes from the boss's own mine. An ex-inmate will provide muscle for the scheme. A downtrodden local will use his skill with TNT to be the job's Powder Monkey. Well, it's the plan anyway.
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"His own soda pop machine. Air conditioning. The finest cotton underwear. Someone else doing the work. That's Master Sgt. Maxwell Slaughter's game and man, can he play it. Just ask Supply Sgt. Eustis Clay, who idolizes the big, shrewd, supremely self-confident older man. Maybe someday they can go into business together. In the meantime, how about a hot double date? So Clay fixes Slaughter up with a teenybopper named Bobby Jo, a move that sets off...
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"Tell us, Max, what are the facts? The Navy's test -- Operation Honeymoon -- of the on-board supercomputer Max and its ability to predict an ICBM's place of impact is a success. But Lt. Fergie Howard wonders if Max can pinpoint something smaller -- say, the slot where a Venice casino's roulette wheel's ball will land? With the help of a programmer, the answer is 'you betcha!' Howard [is] a sailor eager to turn his shore leave into a gambling jackpot....
7) Lili
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"Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets"--Container.
8) Tall story
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"June Ryder wants a man she can look up to: a basketball player! [She's] a college co-ed with a clear-cut goal: convince All-American hoopster Ray Blent that a bachelor's degree doesn't mean unmarried"--Container.
9) Drum beat
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"Appointed peace commissioner by President Grant, Indian fighter Johnny McKay is sent to the south Oregon border to deal with the renegade Modoc Indian chief, Captain Jack. A warrior who honors no treaties, Jack is determined to drive out the settlers, a decision that leads to ambushes, massacres and Johnny's new orders: bring in the Captain, dead or alive. [It is] inspired by the Modoc War of 1872-1873, and based on historical fact"--Container.
10) Confession
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"It's been fifteen years since Vera Kowalska last saw her daughter Lisa. A famed opera star, Vera was compromised by a womanizing concert pianist Michael Michailow, her disgrace leading to divorce and her husband taking off with their child. Reduced to singing in cheap cabarets, Vera searches for Lisa in vain until she spots the 17-year-old in the audience kissing Michailow, and her greatest trial is about to begin"--Container.
11) Roberta
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All-American football player John Kent arrives in Paris with his friend, band leader Huckleberry Haines, and his orchestra. As John falls for a fashion designer, Huckleberry runs into a childhood sweetheart who is now pretending to be a European countess for her showbiz career. With glamorous fashion and the Paris hotspots to dance in, it's easy for romance to bloom.