Description: Another Playlist of films dedicated to the Golden Age of Hollywood era…movies made in the 40ies, 50ies & 60ies
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G.I. Blues
( 1960 )
Tulsa McLean, a soldier with dreams of running his own nightclub, places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can win the heart of an untouchable dancer. But when Dynamite is transferred, Tulsa must replace him in the bet.
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Blue Hawaii
( 1961 )
After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
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Flaming Star
( 1961 )
When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.
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Kid Galahad
( 1962 )
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
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It Happened at the World's Fair
( 1963 )
Mike and Danny hitch a ride to the World's Fair in Seattle after the sheriff seizes their crop duster biplane to cover Danny's gambling debts. Mike looks after the driver's 7 y.o. niece at the fair, where he meets a cute nurse.
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Fun in Acapulco
( 1963 )
A yacht owner's spoiled daughter gets Mike fired, but a boy helps him get a job as singer at Acapulco Hilton etc. He upsets the lifeguard by taking his girl and 3 daily work hours. Mike's also seeing a woman bullfighter.
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Harum Scarum
( 1965 )
American singer Johnny Tyronne is enlisted by sinister forces to assassinate an Arab king--and falls in love with that very king's daughter.
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Double Trouble
( 1967 )
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
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Battle Hymn
( 1957 )
A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.
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They Met in Bombay
( 1941 )
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
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Cloak and Dagger
( 1946 )
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
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Young Man with a Horn
( 1950 )
A young trumpet player is torn between an honest singer and a manipulative heiress.
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The Green Hornet
( 1940 )
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Touch of Evil
( 1958 )
A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
( 1955 )
An 11th-century noblewoman opens her Saxon husband's eyes by riding bareback through town.
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Tony Rome
( 1967 )
Tough Miami P.I. Tony Rome's hired by a millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter. In the search, he has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami police.
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Lady in Cement
( 1968 )
During an ocean dive, Miami gumshoe Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a woman's body with her feet encased in a concrete block and sets out to solve the murder case.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
( 1953 )
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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All About Eve
( 1950 )
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
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South Pacific
( 1958 )
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
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Alexander the Great
( 1956 )
Philip of Macedonia's son wants to rule the fourth-century B.C. world.
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This Land Is Mine
( 1943 )
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
( 1940 )
An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
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Castle in the Desert
( 1942 )
Charlie Chan investigates apparent poisonings at a mystery mansion in the Mojave Desert.
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Kismet
( 1944 )
In ancient Baghdad, Hafiz the King of Beggars dreams of untold riches and of marrying his daughter to a real prince.
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Son of Sinbad
( 1955 )
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
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Titanic
( 1953 )
An unhappily married couple struggle to deal with their problems while on board the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.
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Rebecca
( 1940 )
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
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Foreign Correspondent
( 1940 )
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
( 1941 )
A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.
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Spellbound
( 1945 )
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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Notorious
( 1946 )
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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The Paradine Case
( 1948 )
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
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Strangers on a Train
( 1951 )
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
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I Confess
( 1953 )
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
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The Trouble with Harry
( 1955 )
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
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The Wrong Man
( 1957 )
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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The Third Man
( 1950 )
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
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A Yank in the RAF
( 1942 )
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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13 Rue Madeleine
( 1947 )
When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.
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A Farewell to Arms
( 1957 )
An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.
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3 Godfathers
( 1949 )
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
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55 Days at Peking
( 1963 )
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
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Quo Vadis
( 1951 )
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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The Fighting Sullivans
( 1944 )
The lives of a close-knit group of five brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression, leading to them joining the US Navy and meeting their destiny on the USS Juneau in 1942 during WWII.
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The Story of Ruth
( 1960 )
Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.
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Hell on Frisco Bay
( 1956 )
After 5 years in prison, ex-cop Steve Rollins is paroled and searches for the San Francisco mobsters who framed him for manslaughter.
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The Fatal Hour
( 1940 )
When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.
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British Intelligence
( 1940 )
Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.
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Between Midnight and Dawn
( 1950 )
Prowl car cops on night duty romance a reluctant young woman who works for the department while in danger from a vengeful racketeer.
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An Affair to Remember
( 1957 )
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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His Girl Friday
( 1940 )
When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
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Operation Petticoat
( 1959 )
During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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To Catch a Thief
( 1955 )
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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I Was a Male War Bride
( 1949 )
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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The Philadelphia Story
( 1941 )
After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Monkey Business
( 1952 )
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
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Father Goose
( 1964 )
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
( 1944 )
Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers.
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Suspicion
( 1941 )
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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Houseboat
( 1958 )
A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
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Night and Day
( 1946 )
A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
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The House of the Seven Gables
( 1940 )
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
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The Song of Bernadette
( 1943 )
14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
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The Eve of St. Mark
( 1944 )
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and his fellow gunners and it's either flee or hold their positions and provide cover for escape...Read all
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Laura
( 1944 )
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Shock
( 1946 )
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
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Moss Rose
( 1947 )
Set in turn-of-the-century London, a woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim.
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Bagdad
( 1950 )
An English-educated Bedouin princess returns to Bagdad to find her father murdered, a corrupt ruling Pasha in charge and various local factions warring for control of the Caliphate.
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Champagne for Caesar
( 1950 )
In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
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Queen of the Nile
( 1964 )
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
( 1962 )
In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
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Tower of London
( 1962 )
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
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Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
( 1941 )
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
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Pin Up Girl
( 1944 )
A U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero.
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Hannibal
( 1960 )
During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
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Sergeant York
( 1941 )
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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It's a Wonderful Life
( 1947 )
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
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The Italian Job
( 1969 )
A comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
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Pygmy Island
( 1950 )
Jungle Jim heads a search for missing WAC Captain Ann Kingsley; a white midget plays Tembo, the pygmy chief.
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Great Expectations
( 1947 )
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman - with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
( 1960 )
A demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
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A Tale of Two Cities
( 1958 )
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
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Paths of Glory
( 1957 )
A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
( 1961 )
While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Around the World in 80 Days
( 1956 )
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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16 Fathoms Deep
( 1948 )
In post-WW2 Florida, a former Navy diver is hired by Greek-American sponge divers who are at the mercy of a crooked sponge-exchange owner.
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Underwater!
( 1955 )
Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure. However, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.
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White Witch Doctor
( 1953 )
In 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.
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Wing and a Prayer
( 1945 )
In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.
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Johnny Apollo
( 1940 )
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
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Fear in the Night
( 1947 )
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
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The Dark Past
( 1949 )
An escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.
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The Verdict
( 1946 )
After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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A Woman's Face
( 1941 )
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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Crossroads
( 1942 )
An amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.
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Hud
( 1963 )
Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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