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3) Jezebel
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Set in the old South, Julie Marsden is a Southern belle with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Although she is to be wed to Pres Dillard, the engagement is called off due to her insensitivity and unusual behavior. When Dillard returns married, Julie's ruthless jealously explodes.
5) Bright road
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The stars of Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafont, ̌ headline a sensitive story of a first-year schoolteacher who finds promise in a student labeled a backwards child.
6) Red Skelton whistling collection: Whistling in Brooklyn ; Whistling in Dixie ; Whistling in Brooklyn
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Whistling in the dark: a radio sleuth is kidnapped by crooks who want him to help devise the perfect murder.
Whistling in Dixie: Radio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton forgoes his honeymoon to help his wife's old friend solve a murder and hunt for Confederate gold.
Whistling in Brooklyn: The Fox is on the trail of a serial killer, and winds up on the mound at Ebbets Field.
8) Bright leaf
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Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco, building a cigarette manufacturing empire, but his empire is starting to crumble. He is romantically drawn to the daughter of the tycoon who had earlier brought ruin to his family, and she may have an agenda of her own.
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"1950s Southern California is as far away from 19th-century Russia as you can get -- or is it? Robert Cole [is] a troubled young man with a troubling belief: exceptional people shouldn't have to pay for their crimes. After blacking out near the scene of a murder, Cole captures the attention of the police and proceeds to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious cop, a beautiful stranger and a family foe"--Container.