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621) Don Juan
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Don Juan was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia and then killing Count Donati in a duel.
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Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl...
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"Who killed Jenny Wren? Jenny plans to blackmail her rich and powerful paramours at a posh soirée. Instead, she is murdered. A career criminal at the gathering, knowing he must act before police arrive and accuse him, takes it upon himself to sift through the clues to discover the who of the whodunit. Combining elements of parlor mystery with the secret passages, stormy nights and strange apparitions of old-dark-house tales, [it] crafts a clever...
624) Flirtation walk
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"A cadet and a general's daughter once shared a Hawaiian fling -- until she said aloha. But three years later they're cast together in the military academy Hundredth Nite Show, where sweet music and snappy rhythms work their romantic magic"--Container.
625) Follow the boys
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Follow the fun, follow the fleet. Navy wives and sweethearts careen around the French and Italian Riviera in a beat-up jalopy, trying to keep up with their seagoing menfolk. The girls are glamorous, but even they can't out-wow the scenery: Nice, Cannes, Santa Margherita Ligure, and a white-sand-fringed, brilliantly blue Mediterranean"--Container.
626) The prodigal
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A young Hebrew named Micah, unsatisfied with his father's rural life, demands his inheritance so he can try his luck in the city. Once in Damascus, he falls under the spell of a beautiful pagan priestess who induces him to squander his money and betray his faith. Only after many trials and tribulations does Micah recover his senses and return home to his forgiving father.
627) His kind of woman!
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect.
628) Blessed event
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"While his boss is on vacation, reporter Alvin Roberts has been writing a snappy gossip column featuring announcements of 'blessed events, ' impending births of both the married and unmarried. Although the column is not very respectable, circulation jumps, so Alvin is assigned a regular position. Soon, he is so powerful that gangster Sam Goebel sends his gunman, Frankie Wells, to threaten him. Instead, Alvin tricks Frankie into confessing to murder...
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Babes in arms: Learning that his parents are in financial straits, the son of a famous vaudeville team rounds up all the stage kids and puts on a lavish show to raise money. The future looks rosy until a hurricane washes the whole enterprise away on opening night.
Strike up the band: Jimmy and Mary are two talented high school students ready and eager to climb the ladder of success. He's a band leader and she's his lovelorn singer. Together they...
630) Four's a crowd
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"Flynn plays a PR dynamo who rigs a toy train race to win a grumpy millionaire as a client -- and tries to win the millionaire's granddaughter too"--Container.
632) Rio Rita
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"It's fiesta time in Vista Del Rio, and that means much musical celebration. It's also a time of global war. So, in the updated plot of this exuberant World War II-era remake of the 1929 Wheeler and Woolsey romp, that means little Vista Del Rio is a hotbed of Axis spies. The agents intend to use a fiesta radio show to send a coded message, a scheme that may be scrambled silly when stumblebums Doc and Wishy stumble onto it"--Container.
633) Annie get your gun
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Frank Butler, handsome star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bags clay pigeons and ladies' hearts. He's the best marksman in the world--until a backwoods hoyden challenges him. Her name? Annie Oakley.
634) Looking for love
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A kooky comedy about a girl who can't decide if she wants to be a star (she sings), a housewife (babies! 'burbs!) or an entrepreneur (she's invented a doohickey to keep clothes from wrinkling). A host of stars, including Johnny Carson playing himself, pop up in cameos.
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"Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and desperation of men with nothing to lose. Included in this historic triple-feature set are the rarely seen French- and Spanish-language 'parallel production' versions"--Container.
636) Wife vs. secretary
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"Of course Linda Stanhope trusts her husband Van. Their marriage is based on love and respect. Who cares if Van's secretary has the face of an angel and the body of a chorus girl? Who says a blonde bombshell can't type and take dictation? But people are whispering. And when Linda calls Van's hotel room late at night during his solo business trip to Havana, guess who answers"--Container.
638) On with the show
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"Tonight will be a hit ... or tomorrow will be a bust! ... backstage musicals became one of the staples of the era and amid all the voh-de-oh-doing and tap-tapping came this movie that Time called 'the most interesting of its type to date.' Adding to the interest: a narrative structure that cuts between the onstage production of a make-or-break show and the in-the-wings scrambling to mount it -- and to find out who heisted the night's gate receipts...
640) Lovely to look at
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"A New York producer inherits a failing Parisian fashion house. His partners and the lovelies they look at means everyone falls in love with everyone else as they scramble to save the salon"--Container.