Description: Another Playlist of films dedicated to the Golden Age of Hollywood era…movies made in the 40ies, 50ies & 60ies
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Heaven Can Wait
( 1943 )
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
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On the Riviera
( 1951 )
An American entertainer impersonates a wealthy aviator and flirts with his lookalike's neglected wife.
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Anchors Aweigh
( 1945 )
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
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Island in the Sun
( 1957 )
This drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.
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Sunset Boulevard
( 1950 )
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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Gypsy
( 1962 )
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
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Houdini
( 1953 )
From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
( 1953 )
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
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The Seven Year Itch
( 1955 )
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a sexy new neighbor.
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Some Like It Hot
( 1959 )
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
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Bus Stop
( 1956 )
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
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Funny Face
( 1957 )
An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
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How Green Was My Valley
( 1942 )
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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North West Frontier
( 1959 )
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
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River of No Return
( 1954 )
The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
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The Misfits
( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle.
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Let's Make Love
( 1960 )
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
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The Defiant Ones
( 1958 )
Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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The Vikings
( 1958 )
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
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Vertigo
( 1958 )
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
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Rope
( 1948 )
Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
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Lifeboat
( 1944 )
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
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Tortilla Flat
( 1942 )
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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Men of Boys Town
( 1941 )
Boys Town faces financial struggles as Father Flanagan helps troubled boys from a reform school lacking proper facilities. Father Flanagan and the school take efforts to reform and educate the new arrivals, teaching them they can change.
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Plymouth Adventure
( 1952 )
Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
( 1957 )
Overwhelmed by rats, a medieval town hires a magical piper who can rid the town of the pest in exchange for gold but the crooked mayor has no intention of honoring the deal.
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Yours, Mine and Ours
( 1968 )
A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.
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The High and the Mighty
( 1954 )
When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
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To Be or Not to Be
( 1942 )
During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Call Northside 777
( 1948 )
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
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D-Day the Sixth of June
( 1956 )
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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Anastasia
( 1956 )
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
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The Nun's Story
( 1959 )
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Sabrina
( 1954 )
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter, who's long had a crush on him, but he questions his more serious brother's motives when he warns against getting involved with her.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
( 1961 )
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
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Roman Holiday
( 1953 )
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
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He Ran All the Way
( 1951 )
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.
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Honky Tonk
( 1941 )
Fast-talking con man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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The Three Musketeers
( 1948 )
D'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
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Joan of Arc
( 1948 )
The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
( 1943 )
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
( 1958 )
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
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Jet Pilot
( 1957 )
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
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Bye Bye Birdie
( 1963 )
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.
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Rage in Heaven
( 1941 )
Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.
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Europe '51
( 1954 )
A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
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Rawhide
( 1951 )
A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.
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Brigham Young
( 1940 )
In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.
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My Friend Flicka
( 1943 )
Ken returns from school with poor grades, disappointing his father. His mother convinces his father to let Ken choose a horse, but he picks an injured filly instead of a colt. Can he nurse her back to health?
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Lassie Come Home
( 1943 )
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
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The Luck of the Irish
( 1948 )
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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North to Alaska
( 1960 )
During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall.
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Western Union
( 1941 )
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Hello, Dolly!
( 1969 )
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
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The Mark of Zorro
( 1940 )
A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
( 1954 )
In first-century Rome, Christian slave Demetrius is sent to fight in the gladiatorial arena and Emperor Caligula seeks Jesus' robe for its alleged magical powers.
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
( 1946 )
As a spate of leopard attacks causes panic, a sceptical Tarzan joins a hunting expedition, only to face a pagan cult of leopard-god worshippers and their fiendish high priestess. Can he escape the sharp claws of the savage Leopard Woman?
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Tarzan Triumphs
( 1943 )
As World War II rages, a formation of German paratroopers land in the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth and they start taking hostages. Can Tarzan, the king of the jungle, and his animal companions Cheeta and Buli save them?
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Tarzan and His Mate
( 1934 )
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
( 1952 )
An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
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Once Upon a Time
( 1944 )
A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy's dancing caterpillar.
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3:10 to Yuma
( 1957 )
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
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Sahara
( 1943 )
After the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
( 1962 )
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
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Mildred Pierce
( 1945 )
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Berserk
( 1968 )
A scheming circus owner finds her authority challenged when a vicious killer targets the show.
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A Night to Remember
( 1943 )
A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
( 1960 )
During WW2, Lt. Rip Crandall, who was a yachtsman before the war, takes command of the USS Echo, a sailing ship, for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships.
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King Richard and the Crusaders
( 1954 )
While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart (George Sanders) battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Sir Rex Harrison).
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The Black Rose
( 1950 )
A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
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Pal Joey
( 1957 )
Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
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The Notorious Landlady
( 1962 )
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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Ziegfeld Follies
( 1946 )
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
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Legend of the Lost
( 1957 )
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
( 1964 )
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
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El Cid
( 1961 )
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
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The Millionairess
( 1960 )
A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.
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Pushover
( 1954 )
An undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run and together they plan to double-cross both the hood and the cops.
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The Fat Man
( 1951 )
A dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.
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The Outsider
( 1961 )
Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
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Seven Rebel Gladiators
( 1965 )
The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes to Aristea to learn where his legions war funds have gone. Vadio has him framed for treason and is thrown into the arena to fight a grou...Read all
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Manhunt of Mystery Island
( 1945 )
The creator of a scientific device is kidnapped, and his daughter enlists the help of a private detective whose investigations lead them to a remote Pacific isle where they confront the evil and shocking descendants of a long-dead pirate.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
( 1961 )
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
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Casbah
( 1948 )
The life, loves and adventures of a classic Casbah thief.
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The Face of Fu Manchu
( 1965 )
After cheating death, master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu returns with a plot to contaminate the River Thames with a powerful toxin extracted from Tibetan poppies.
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The Brides of Fu Manchu
( 1966 )
Fu Manchu blackmails several industrialists and scientists into helping him construct a super-weapon by kidnapping their daughters and wives.
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All American
( 1953 )
Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan University to pursue his real interest of studying architecture. His decision not to join the football team causes considerable friction for him at his new alma mater, particularly...Read all
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Guns Girls and Gangsters
( 1959 )
In Las Vegas, a group of assorted criminals plans the robbery of an armored truck hauling casino money to the bank.
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Valentino
( 1951 )
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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Viva Las Vegas
( 1964 )
A race-car driver preparing for the Grand Prix wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine and soon strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.
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Roustabout
( 1964 )
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
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Love Me Tender
( 1956 )
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
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Jailhouse Rock
( 1957 )
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
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King Creole
( 1958 )
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?
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expresso : Contains spoilers. Click to show. One of my favorite TV show lines of all time! This really is his best role to date. Nobody...