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Bathing beauty (1944 ; 101 min.): Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman, who has been paid by Steve's agent to say she is his wife, interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline leaves Steve at the alter and gets her old job back teaching at a girl's college. Determined to win her back, Steve enrolls in the school to become its only male student.
Neptune's daughter (1949 ; 93 min.): Scatterbrained Betty Barrett...
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The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
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Boys Town : Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Captains courageous : When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : One man is a paragon of virtue, the other a murderous creature of the London night. They are the same person. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's...
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The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
The Stratton story: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious...
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Dark passage: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name, but he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Key Largo: 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...
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Mr. Blandings builds his dream house: Cary Grant plays a successful New York advertising executive who wants to escape his current living situation. He decides to design his own dream house in the suburbs and the project turns wrong when the bills never end and the problems never stop.
My favorite wife: A funny thing happens to Nick on his way to his honeymoon suite. He meets his wife. No, not his bride. He meets the wife that was lost at sea seven...
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For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
The Harvey girls: Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
In the good old summertime: A musical version of "The shop around the corner" tells the story...
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Morning glory: An aspiring actress is mentored to success by several Broadway veterans.
Little women: Follows the lives of the four March sisters living with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is ministering to Union troops during the American Civil War.
Stage door: A group of aspiring actresses share a boardinghouse in New York City.
Philadelphia story: A socialite's wedding plans are complicated by the appearance of her...
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Somebody up there likes me: The inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Harper: Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Cool hand Luke: Prisoner loner Luke Jackson wins the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
The mackintosh man: A British Intelligence agent assumes a fictitious...
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Young man with a horn: A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.
Bad and the beautiful: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing...
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A woman disguises herself as a young boy to help her father escape from the police in pre-war Paris; three British Army veterans find adventure on India's North-West frontier, helped by a young Indian water boy; a WW II drama about a submarine mission to Tokyo Bay and the lives of the sailors on board; an easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar....
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Thrill of a romance (1945 ; 105 min.): A newlywed swimming teacher has everything she needs for her honeymoon except her groom who chooses business over his new wife. It's a sorry situation until a good-looking war hero decides he needs swimming lessons"--Container.
Fiesta (1947 ; 102 min.): "Maria disguises herself as twin brother Mario and takes his place in the ring when he abandons bullfighting for studies"--Container.
Pagan love song (1950...
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Blackboard jungle: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, and Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going...