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1) Sundown
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The adopted daughter of an Arab trader assists British troops in Africa during World War II.
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Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man" -- an apparent down-and-out drifter -- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
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Angel and the Badman stars John Wayne as wounded outlaw Quirt Evans. When sheltered by a Quaker family, he falls for the family's angelic daughter, Penelope (Gail Russell). Though she brings on a transformation in Quirt's hard-boiled character for the better, he is ever-obsessed with avenging the killing of his foster father. The first starring vehicle that John Wayne produced himself, Angel and the Badman is an unconventional Western romance classic...
4) Algiers
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Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr are an ill-fate couple in this Hollywood remake of the French classic Pepe le Moko. Boyer is Pepe, a jewel thief hiding out in Casbah, the maze-like and mysterious native quarter of Algiers. He's a master criminal who rules his field, but when he meets the beautiful Parisian Gaby (Lamarr in her American film debut), he begins to question his shady existence. Directed by John Cromwell (Dead Reckoning, The Prisoner of Zenda)...
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"Twaddle in Africa": The science institute sends Clutch to Africa to locate a missing explorer.
"The lost plateau": To find a rare plant that can cure blindness, Clutch travels to a plateau hidden in the Amazon jungle.
"The ghost ship": Clutch is called in when the people of a small fishing village are terroized by a phantom ship.
"The rustlers": A rancher friend of Clutch's asks for his help foiling the rustlers who are stealing her cattle.
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"Cyrano de Bergerac is a 17th century French soldier-poet and swordsman who loves his cousin Roxane, but believes she will never love him because of his enormous nose. He courts and wins her, not for himself, but for his inexperienced and prosaic friend, Christian, who dies in battle. Years later, as Cyrano himself is dying, he confesses his love to Roxane, who suddenly realizes that it was Cyrano's words she had heard from Christian, and Cyrano that...
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The vanishing gold: Nugget Jones turns to Clutch for help when his gold mine is repeatedly robbed.
The race car mystery: Clutch barely escapes serious injury when his race car crashes at the speedway.
The rocket riot: A crazy scientist has created his own fleet of Moon rockets.
Mystery in the North Woods: Clutch investigates when a friend's logging camp is being victimized by a mysterious gang of thieves.
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The friendly head hunters: Clutch's friend Chub Perkins has disappeared in the Amazon jungle head-hunter territory; The arctic bird giant: In the frozen North, a monstrous creature is stealing supplies from Captain Lowtide's ship; The desert queen: A 29-pound ruby is stolen and the Queen of Sphinxville is the prime suspect; The pear pirates: A giant metal fish is stealing the pearl harvest of a South Pacific island tribe.