Laurence Olivier
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Success Scandal Sex Tragedy Infamy, and that's just the first reel! Rules are made to be broken. And Robert Evans has broken them all. He was the first actor to ever run a major Hollywood studio. In a decade he took it from worst to first. Voted the world's most eligible bachelor, he was quintessential Hollywood royalty. In 1979, he had $11 million. With one mistake he spiraled south from legend to a leper. In 1989, his worth was $37. Did he come...
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When Dick Dudgeon learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body for a proper burial, ignoring the pleas of his friend, Minister Anthony Anderson who's a peace-loving person who ends up becoming a belligerent firebrand of a rebel trying to save Dudgeon's life.
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"The scene is Victorian London, where [a] wealthy widow is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fiancé. [A] highly respected barrister is engaged to defend her in court who 40 years earlier had been his lover. He is driven to hilarious distraction by her adamant insistence that she has never seen him before in her life"--Container.
4) The bounty
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Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the tyrannical disciplinarian Lt. William Bligh.
Kings of the sun: After a terrible battle leaves young Balam king of his Mayan tribe, he leads his people out of Mexico to escape the rival clan still hunting them. But upon reaching their new home, a hostile Native American tribe attacks and the Mayans manage to capture Black Eagle, the Native American leader. While held prisoner, Black Eagle manages to earn...