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1) Key Largo
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A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
2) The thin man
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The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
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5) Big city
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"Midge is the luckiest girl in New York. Found abandoned as an infant, she's adopted by a cantor, a reverend and a Catholic cop, who raise her together as only three loving fathers can. But when the police officer marries a saloon singer and insists on sole custody, the trio winds up in court where Midge, with the help of a kind-hearted judge, must decide what's best for her fathers as well as herself"--Container.
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Debonair David Niven is a nobel scoundrel in this romantic, swashbuckling drama of royal intrigue inside the court of Charles II. Niven plays the Duke of Brampton who, though trusted by Charles, is actually planning to overthrow the shaky Restoration monarch. But, despite careful scheming, the Duke is in for a few surprises: the brainy and vengeful Lady Mary (Ann Blyth) and the infamous highway robber Michael Dermott (Edmund Purdum)- the one many...
7) Guilty hands
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When a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
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"Grief stricken when her husband kills himself, Lee Addams devotes her life to raising her stepchildren, Penny and Chase. Years later, Penny displays evidence of the mental fragility that haunted her father, becoming frighteningly obsessed with her piano studies and with the handsome older man who rekindles his long-ago romance with Lee"--Container.
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"The prairie meets Paree when a Texas rancher brings his daughter Liz to the City of Light. There's a lot for a Lone Star gal to experience: romance with a handsome young Frenchman, chic fashion, and finding her long-lost mother, a glamorous chanteuse who may still be carrying a torch for Liz's dad even though she's won the heart of her nightclub-act partner. With plenty of songs and dance to help the mood along, will each Jacques find his Jill? Mais...
11) Cookie
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Dino Capisco has just finished thirteen years in prison. Dino wants to get out of jail, settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter, Cookie. Dino decides that the best way to get to know Cookie is to hire her as his chauffeur. With her ears attuned to the conspiracies floating around Dino, she quickly discovers that her father's old crony has been swindling him and that Dino's life is in jeopardy.
12) West of Zanzibar
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When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane, a Limehouse magician named Phroso vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn...
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A dramatic portrayal of the romance of the poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning that begins in London in 1845. The semi-invalid poetess finds her life transformed after falling in love with the famous poet and elopes with him against the wishes of her tyrannical father.
14) The awakening
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"Charlton Heston stars as an Egyptologist with a passion that will trigger several mysterious deaths. He's obsessed with a sorceress whose return has been prophesied--and whose tomb he opened at the exact moment his daughter was born. Can ancient evil reach forward in time to curse the present? Horror movie fans know the terrifying answer"--Container.
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Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
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