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Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel, Meechum's battleground is the family home, with his objective...
4) The thin man
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The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
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5) Key Largo
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A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
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The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him sentenced to hang, while the Kid, who's secretly Kincaid's son, risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is...
9) Big city
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"Midge is the luckiest girl in New York. Found abandoned as an infant, she's adopted by a cantor, a reverend and a Catholic cop, who raise her together as only three loving fathers can. But when the police officer marries a saloon singer and insists on sole custody, the trio winds up in court where Midge, with the help of a kind-hearted judge, must decide what's best for her fathers as well as herself"--Container.
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On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him. But to Andy, that just means he should run after his golden girl a little faster!
11) 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.
12) Of human hearts
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Preacher's call to serve a poor community on the Ohio River sparks a lifelong feud with his son, who shuns his father's resignation to such a lowly life. Caught in the middle is the loving mother and wife who does her best to bring peace to the household.
13) 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...
14) Guilty hands
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When a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
15) The secret heart
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"Grief stricken when her husband kills himself, Lee Addams devotes her life to raising her stepchildren, Penny and Chase. Years later, Penny displays evidence of the mental fragility that haunted her father, becoming frighteningly obsessed with her piano studies and with the handsome older man who rekindles his long-ago romance with Lee"--Container.
16) The champ
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"The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son T.J. sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed-but-loving father is, was and always will be The Champ"--Container.
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"The prairie meets Paree when a Texas rancher brings his daughter Liz to the City of Light. There's a lot for a Lone Star gal to experience: romance with a handsome young Frenchman, chic fashion, and finding her long-lost mother, a glamorous chanteuse who may still be carrying a torch for Liz's dad even though she's won the heart of her nightclub-act partner. With plenty of songs and dance to help the mood along, will each Jacques find his Jill? Mais...
19) Gallant sons
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High school sleuths prove solving a murder is mere child's play in this fast-paced whodunit. When his gambler father is wrongly convicted of murder, Johnny is determined to prove his dad's innocence. Following a series of clues that point to the real killer, Johnny and pals decided to stage a play that will force a confession and drop the curtain on a murderer.
20) Cookie
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Dino Capisco has just finished thirteen years in prison. Dino wants to get out of jail, settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter, Cookie. Dino decides that the best way to get to know Cookie is to hire her as his chauffeur. With her ears attuned to the conspiracies floating around Dino, she quickly discovers that her father's old crony has been swindling him and that Dino's life is in jeopardy.