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Royal wedding: A musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance.
Pied Piper of Hamelin: The famous children's fairy tale is retold with warmth and understanding as the mysterious ratcatcher comes to the town of Hamelin and promises to rid the town of its unwelcome guests for a price.
Wild guitar: Bud Eagle leaves rural South Dakota on his motor scooter...
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"In pre-World War II London, Spanish agent Denard struggles to close a high-level business deal that will strike a blow against fascists in his native country. But industrialists not yet alert to the threat of fascism reject him. A teenage ally caught up in his efforts is murdered. And the mission itself seems a failure. Yet neither the story nor Denard will stop there. Charles Boyer plays Denard and Lauren Bacall is a jaded industrialist heiress...
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A romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Arthur Chipping is the new Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpected falls in love. His new wife ignites...
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National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
The Story of Seabiscuit: An Irish horse trainer and his niece come to Kentucky after her brother's death in a riding accident. While the trainer takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit and tries to convince the owner that the ungainly little horse can become a champion,...
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It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter Jane the right entry into society and a proper upper-class beau. One complication: flighty Mabel Claremont is eager to match that same beau with her daughter. And another: Jane, of course, has her own ideas about these matters, and an eye for a guy who's a drummer in the dance band.
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Not-so-young Phoebe fears imminent spinsterhood when she watches her favorite suitor head off to the Napoleonic Wars without leaving a wedding proposal behind. Years later he returns, but Phoebe must masquerade as her own high-spirited niece to regain his fickle attentions.
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For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
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"Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting a tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling...
10) Summer stock
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There is an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay, and show tunes. It₂s a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a bit riled when her aspiring-actress sister shows up with a theatrical troupe that wants to stage a musical in the family₂s barn. Any guess who becomes the show₂s sudden star after its lead...
11) The king's thief
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Debonair David Niven is a nobel scoundrel in this romantic, swashbuckling drama of royal intrigue inside the court of Charles II. Niven plays the Duke of Brampton who, though trusted by Charles, is actually planning to overthrow the shaky Restoration monarch. But, despite careful scheming, the Duke is in for a few surprises: the brainy and vengeful Lady Mary (Ann Blyth) and the infamous highway robber Michael Dermott (Edmund Purdum)- the one many...
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A classic adventure of a young orphan sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle and his crippled son. Led by a strong will and a stubborn temperament, Mary Lennox discovers the existence of a secret garden, the history of which slowly reveals the mystery of her uncle and his son's embittered lives. Eventually, the beloved garden becomes the only hope for their happiness and restoration from the haunting grip of the...
14) Edward, my son
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Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama. When the boy is five, his father commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocket-like career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream.
17) Love on the run
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"A stolen British munitions map concealed in a bouquet meant for an elusive spy leads to a freewheeling race through pre-war European hotspots for an American heiress, a news-hungry reporter, and the reporter's hapless rival, who's always just one misstep behind them. Also close behind: foreign agents with murder on their minds"--Container.
19) Young Bess
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"The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. This rich tapestry of a film traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25."--Container.
20) Jack the Ripper
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"In 1888, a reign of murderous terror struck East London. To this day, the case is unsolved. And the killer is known only by his infamous nickname. But the truth may at last have been found. Based on breakthrough research at the time it was made, this gripping 'what if' suggests who wielded the surgically sharp blade of death and why his identity has been concealed. Scotland Yard's Frederick Abberline heads a movie cloaked in mystery and wrapped in...