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21) The young lions
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"The destiny of three soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero"--IMDb.
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Harold Robbin's bestseller about 1930s Hollywood comes to the screen in a torrent of frank, controversial, and (for the times) sensational scenes that helped break the Production Code. George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's, P.J.) is the ruthless tycoon who (with amazing parallels to Howard Hughes) builds a multimillion-dollar empire. Carroll Baker (Baby Doll, The Big Country), who performs a razzle-dazzle striptease atop a glittering chandelier,...
23) Love affair
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Michel Marnet and Terry McKay meet on a ship on which he is sailing to marry a rich heiress. When they fall in love, they agree to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building if they are both still free. On the way to their rendezvous, Terry meets with a crippling accident leaving Michel to wait in vain. Fate will eventually bring the two of them back together.
24) Raintree County
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In this love story set against the turmoil of the Civil War, a Northern school teacher (Clift) enlists in the Union army to search for his runaway bride (Taylor), a beautiful, but fragile Southern belle who fled to Georgia. But even as he risks his life on the battlefield, he finds that he must confront an even greater foe - his own conscience - in an inner struggle that will change his life forever.
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100 Rifles: In 19th century Mexico a native revolutionary,Yaqui Joe,robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people but he finds himself wanted by American lawmen and the Mexican Army.--
Warlock: "A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods."--
North to Alaska: "During the Alaska gold rush, prospector...
28) Warlock
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The people of Warlock, Utah, hires a new sheriff to stand up to a gang of outlaws plaguing the town.
30) The hidden room
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A cuckolded doctor exacts revenge on his high-spirited wife by abducting her young American lover, then keeping her guessing as to where he is, and whether he is still alive.
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"A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as 'Colonel' Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
33) Shalako
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"Gutsy gunslinger Shalako is a loner who looks out for number one, until he finds himself rescuing and falling for a beautiful countess under attack by Apaches. But when Shalako discovers that the countess is part of a European hunting party that refuses to be led to safety, he must summon all his courage to fight the Apache and save the woman he loves or die trying"--Container.
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Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence.
The gay Falcon: "A society sleuth tries to break up an insurance scam"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
A date with the Falcon: "The gentleman detective postpones his wedding to find a cache of stolen diamonds"--Www.tcm.com, viewed March 27, 2015.
The Falcon takes over: "A society sleuth and a lady reporter...
35) Cornered
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Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 1
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Cornered: an ex-RCAF pilot stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bridge, but no one can describe the mysterious man.
Desperate: an Everyman who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Brodie and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job.
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"In the 1940s, a new genre, film noir, emerged from the world of 'hard-boiled' pulp magazines, paperback thrillers and sensational crime movies. These films, tough and unsentimental, depicted a black-and-white universe at once brutal, erotic and morally ambiguous. Now, Sony Pictures and The Film Foundation have brought five noir classics together in one collection, all restored and remastered"--Container.
The sniper: San Francisco delivery van driver...
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The Monster and the Girl: A bizarre thriller about an ape with a human brain who stalks the city and chooses his victims with care.
Captive Wild Woman: After Dr. Walters transforms an ape into the exotic Paula Dupree, he then turns her loose at the circus. Paula fits in splendidly becoming an animal trainer who wields strange powers over her lions and tigers. She even falls in love with a fellow trainer though becomes overwhelmed with jealousy when...
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Bataan: Bataan realistically shows the tensions, the ugly hardships and the ultimate heroism of a small patrol of American and Filipino fighting men in 1942. Their task is to destroy a strategic bridge in a last-ditch battle against Japan's capture of the Philippines. No run-of-the-military war movie, Bataan is a stirring tribute to all who believe, in the words of one of the heroes, that "it doesn't matter where a man dies so long as he dies for...
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.