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"Volume Six turns the spotlight on adultery, alcoholism, prostitution, and racism, issues that the Production Code would soon ban from the screen. The Wet Parade:... Demon whiskey brings ruin to two families in this all-star adaptation of Upton Sinclair's impassioned novel. Downstairs:... A philandering chauffer creates havoc in an upper-class household. Mandalay:... A Russian refugee seeks revenge upon the ex-lover who sold her into slavery....
2) The citadel
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"Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-ins. Young Dr. Andrew Manson fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a dedicated healer until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces him to face what he's become. And what he's lost"--Container.