Arthur Edeson
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In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
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Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
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Essential classics. Dramas volume 1
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After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
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"When the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos washes ashore in Istanbul, there is cause for celebration all across Europe. The devious sociopath has left as his legacy an array of crimes including blackmail, thievery, murder and high treason. Interested in chronicling the dead man's unscrupulous exploits, mystery writer Cornelius Leyden takes up his trail, aided by a mysterious man named Peters. But as Leyden zeroes in on the truth about Dimitrios, he finds...
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"According to a legend, if three strangers gather together before the fabled idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor and a drunken thief in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real"--Container.
10) The male animal
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"His fangs are bared, his hackles raised, his gin bottle nearly empty. The Male Animal is out of his lair, storming battle-of-the-sexes bulwarks, skewering college athletics and speaking his mind when folks of a narrower hat size seek to stop him. Bookish Prof. Tommy Turner [is] struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star once, perhaps still, fancied by Turner's...
11) In old Arizona
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One of the first "talkies" and the first Western to be shot outdoors, In old Arizona was one of the most innovative films of its time. When a Robin Hood-style bandit, The Cisco Kid, falls for a beautiful woman, he may also be falling into a trap, since the woman is also involved with the military man who seeks to capture The Kid -- dead or alive.
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The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.