Michael Curtiz
2) The Sea Hawk
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The film was stirringly topical in its day. When Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) exhorts her country to maintain fighting readiness against tyranny "now and forever," audiences knew forever had come: Hitler had launched his World War II air siege of England.
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Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. They discover that the inn is run by the fella's old army general who's now in financial trouble.
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"James Cagney and Bette Davis star as a less-than-scrupulous private detective and the woman he loves--who has just left him for an even less scrupulous employer. Jimmy Corrigan (Cagney) is jealous when his operative and sweetheart, Joan Martin (Davis), goes to work for his seemingly upper-crust rival Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart). But Corrigan discovers that Wallingham is just as crooked as Corrigan; he's just better at concealing it. Now--even...
8) King Creole
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A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
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The walking dead: Boris Karloff is resurrected anew in the eerie tale of a man framed for murder. Sent to the chair... and seeking revenge after being brought back to life by science.
Frankenstein 1970: Dr. Frankenstein allows a film crew access to shoot a horror flick at his family castle... and now having what he needs for his monstrous experiments -- fresh young body parts ready for harvesting!
You'll find out: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and...
10) Life with father
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"New York in 1883 is the setting for this classic family movie. Clarence Day (William Powell) a stockbroker attempts to run his household with the meticulous efficiency of his office. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne) is the real driving force behind the family by constantly out witting her husband"--Container.
11) Santa Fe trail
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Follows the lives of J.E.B. Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters as they leave West Point in the years before the Civil War. Some join John Brown's army of fanatics and sincere reformers; others are sent by the army to quash John Brown. The climax is the Battle of Harper's Ferry that began the War between the States.
13) The sea wolf
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The tyrannical captain of a freighter would rather 'reign in Hell than serve in Heaven' in this classic drama.
14) Classic cinema
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Includes nine full-length feature films with Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton such as Little Lord Fauntleroy, Father's Little Dividend, and The Klansman.
15) Kid Galahad
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Feelings aren't part of the game, contends racketeer and fight promoter Nick Donati. Bet the house Nick's feelings of jealousy and rage will knock him flat. Turkey Morgan is a rival promoter, who likes fighters flinging kidney punches and end up swapping close-range bullets. A beauty has a soft spot for the bellhop Nick is grooming for the heavyweight titles.
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The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen; set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king; Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian; in the days when England controlled...
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Casablanca (1942, b&w, 102 min.): The story of a man torn between his love for a woman and the lives of countless resistance fighters hanging in the balance against Nazi Germany.
African Queen (1951, 105 min.): The timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause and finding love along the way.
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Doris Day collection volume 2
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The story of lyricist Gus Kahn and his wife, from the day Gus walks into a Chicago music publishing house to his public triumphs, private failures, career decline and comeback.
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The proud rebel (1958): Ladd is a Southerner on his way north in search of a doctor to cure his boy, who was rendered mute by the shock of seeing his mother killed in the Civil War. Along the way they find a new home on an Illinois farm run single-handed by de Havilland, and learn that violence does not always end after a war is over when she is victimized by a one-armed sheep herder and his two sons.
Committed (12/5/54): TV episode of General Electric...