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Movie: Some Came Running ( 1958 )
Dave Hirsch, a writer and an army veteran winds up in his small Indiana hometown, to the dismay of his respectable older brother. He meets and befriends various different characters and tries to figure out what to do with his life.
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Movie: Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1962 )
Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.
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Movie: The Quiet Man ( 1952 )
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love.
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Movie: The Hiding Place ( 1977 )
During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.
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Movie: I Became a Criminal ( 1948 )
After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
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Movie: The Public Enemy ( 1931 )
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
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Movie: Hamlet ( 1948 )
William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet re-creates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some travelling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the Prince to England.
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Movie: The Fly ( 1958 )
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
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Movie: Panic in the Streets ( 1950 )
A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.
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Movie: The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 )
Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
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Movie: Bless the Beasts & Children ( 1971 )
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
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Movie: Young at Heart ( 1954 )
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
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Movie: The Glass Bottom Boat ( 1966 )
Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters off Catalina Island. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her work (a research lab). Bruce hires Jennifer to be his biographer - only to try and win her affections. However, there's a problem. Bruce's friend General Wallace Bleeker believes that Jennifer is a Russian spy, and he has her placed under surveillance. Then, when Jennifer catches on...Watch Out!
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Movie: The Little Princess ( 1939 )
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, due to her father having to go to South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War.
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Movie: Gunga Din ( 1939 )
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
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Movie: The Catered Affair ( 1956 )
When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.
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Movie: Johnny Guitar ( 1954 )
Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a stagecoach and kill a man the town officials, led by Emma Small, come to the saloon to grab four of Vienna's friends, the Dancin' Kid and his men. Vienna stands strong against them, and is aided by the presence of an old acquaintance of hers, Johnny Guitar, who is not what he seems.
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Movie: Limelight ( 1952 )
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find meaning and hope in their lives.
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Movie: While the City Sleeps ( 1956 )
A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can get the earliest scoops on the case.
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Movie: The Seventh Victim ( 1943 )
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village, and finds that they may have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
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Movie: My Darling Clementine ( 1947 )
The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
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Movie: The Wild North ( 1952 )
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
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Movie: The Last Hurrah ( 1958 )
Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
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Movie: The Egg and I ( 1947 )
On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.
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Movie: The FBI Story ( 1960 )
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Movie: Ivanhoe ( 1953 )
In the center of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired movie the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin of Locksley (Harold Warrender), the valiant of Sherwood Forest. They want King Richard (Norman Wooland) to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John (Guy Rolfe).
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Movie: The Gazebo ( 1959 )
Television writer and director Elliott Nash and his wife Nell have a happy marriage. One day a blackmailer informs Elliott that he has nude photos of his wife Nell, taken when she was only 18 years old. The blackmailer, a certain Dan Shelby, threatens to ruin Nell's reputation and her Broadway stage career if Elliott refuses to pay a ransom. Elliott agrees to pay the blackmailer but the demands increase and Elliott becomes a nervous wreck and a workaholic in his attempt to earn more money for the blackmailer. Elliott even considers selling his house in order to raise the 25 thousand dollars the blackmailer demands. Nell is unaware of the blackmail scheme and often worries about Elliott's state of mind. In desperation, Elliott decides to lure the blackmailer to Elliott's home for a large final payment and kill him. But Elliott is no killer and his planning for the imminent premeditated murder is amateurish at best.
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Movie: Night and the City ( 1950 )
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
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Movie: Raid on Entebbe ( 1977 )
True story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
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Movie: Blood on the Sun ( 1945 )
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
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Movie: They Made Me a Criminal ( 1939 )
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
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Movie: The General ( 1927 )
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
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Movie: The Lusty Men ( 1952 )
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
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Movie: Fanny ( 1961 )
A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.
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Movie: The Girl in Lovers Lane ( 1960 )
Danny, son of a wealthy family, is running away from home. He meets Bix, a long-time drifter, who agrees to "mentor" Danny. Danny's naivete leads him to commit gaffe after gaffe, leaving Bix to straighten things out. But when they stop in a diner in the next town, Bix finds himself attracted to the waitress, Carrie, and is forced to reexamine his whole drifting career. Meanwhile, Jesse (Jack Elam) goes around creeping everyone out.
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Movie: The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 )
A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.
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Movie: Private Hell 36 ( 1954 )
When 2 detectives steal $80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder.
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Movie: Executive Suite ( 1954 )
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.
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Movie: The Silver Chalice ( 1954 )
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver, and sculpt around its rim, the faces of the disciples and Jesus. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah, by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
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Movie: You Only Live Once ( 1937 )
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.
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Movie: The Killer That Stalked New York ( 1950 )
Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.
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Movie: Berlin Express ( 1948 )
In divided Germany just after WWII, people from many different countries are passengers on a train. When one of the passengers, a German working for peace, is kidnapped by people who don't want his ideas to work, the others must set aside their differences and work together to find him in time for an important conference.
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Movie: Brute Force ( 1947 )
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
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Movie: Humoresque ( 1947 )
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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Movie: Untamed Youth ( 1957 )
Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny-dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp, who sponsors a local prison work program, puts the women in the cotton fields to work off their sentence. Tropp marries the middle-aged widowed judge to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he falls in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.
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Movie: Mogambo ( 1953 )
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
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Movie: Quo Vadis ( 1951 )
Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.