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Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.
3) Phantom lady
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An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
4) Stingaree
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Opera singer Hilda Bouveri falls in love with an outlaw disguised as a composer.
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"Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America."--Set container.
7) Border river
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Joel McCrea stars as idealistic Confederate major Clete Mattson and Yvonne DeCarlo as saloon owner Carmelita Carlas. With the South facing defeat, Mattson desperately tries to save his army by stealing $2,000,000 in Union gold. He then heads to a raucous border town on the Rio Grande, hoping to make a munitions deal with Mexican general Calleja.
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Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
10) Murder, he says
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Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search of a missing fellow employee. The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property.
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Glass key: "Ed Beaumont ... is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig ... , a slightly corrupt politician who is accused of murder"--Container.
Phantom lady: "Carol Richman ... attempts to clear her boss ... of a murder he did not commit"--Container.
Blue dahlia: "A WWII veteran ... is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger"--Container.
12) Sierra
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"Ring Hassard (Audie Murphy) and his father Jeff (Dean Jagger) live in a hidden valley in the mountains where they capture and tame wild horses. When Ring comes to the rescue of Riley Martin (Wanda Hendrix), a woman lawyer who has lost her way on the trail, it leads to a romance between them but also opens an investigation into Jeff's shadowy past and accusations of murder."-- Set container.
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"Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, [the film] covers three days in the lives of a trio of high-flying circus performers, headlined by former WWII fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne. Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show"--Container.
16) Shopworn
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Class conflict ensues when a waitress falls in love with a wealthy college student.
17) Phantom lady
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An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
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World War II drama set in the Sahara about a British spy who takes refuge in a hotel and assumes the identity of a dead manservant. Soon, General Rommel makes the inn his general staff headquarters. Now, with the threat of discovery hanging over his head, the spy learns that the identity he has claimed owes a debt to the Nazis -- and they expect him to pay up.
20) A foreign affair
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Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.