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The ape man: Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist who injects himself with a serum that turns him into an apelike creature who goes on a rampage through the neighborhood.
The ape: Boris Karloff roams the streets at night in an ape skin killing to obtain a curing serum for a crippling spinal disease which killed his wife and daughter.
63) Gangster's den
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Cowboy Billy Carson and his pal Fuzzy are partners in a gold mine. Fuzzy uses the gold from the mine to buy the saloon without telling his partner. Soon Fuzzy is in over his head and it's up to Billy to save his pal.
64) Fargo Express
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A young gambler on the run takes refuge in Maynard's cabin. Maynard discovers that the youth is the wayward brother of his sweetheart and takes him under his wing to make a man out of him.
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"Unscrupulous financier J.A. Marsden employs El Lobo and his gang of hoodlums to force the sale of the railroad. The desperate owner summons the great-grandson of the legendary hero. Trading sword for six-shooter, Zorro dons his mask and cape to thwart the thugs and save the train line from destruction"--P. [4] of cover.
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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.
68) 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.
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"In the harsh desert of North Africa, Captain Michael Gallant of the Foreign Legion is stationed on a peacekeeping mission. While gangs and bandits disrupt local villages, Gallant commands a post of well-trained Legionnaires, leading them into battle and delivering justice wherever it is needed"--Container.
70) Whispering city
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In an on-the-run investigation, a female reporter is in a race against time to capture a prominent attorney who has been implicated in a murder committed years before when she receives an inside tip. As she collects evidence, she must stay one step ahead of him so that she doesn't become his latest victim.
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Inspired by the true story of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty's persecution and trial in Hungary, this documentary/propaganda style film examines the Hungarian Communist regime which rose to power after Nazi rule. Cardinal Mindszenty is labeled a traitor by the regime subjugated by dictator Joseph Stalin. American correspondent Tom Kelly shows up in Budapest to investigate. False arrests and mysterious disappearances envelop the brave souls who dared follow...
72) The big lift
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"In 1948, the Soviet Union blockades the Allied sectors of Berlin in order to bring the city completely under their dominance. Sgt. Hank Kowalski and Sgt. Danny McCullough are part of the American force sent to help the war-torn German civilians. Still struggling with misguided loathing of Germans, their experience and relationships with the men and women of Berlin help them overcome these prejudices. [F]ilmed on location in bombed-out Berlin, [it]...
73) Nosferatu
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The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.
75) Nosferatu
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The original "Dracula" film, based on the story by Bram Stoker. For copyright reasons, the names of the characters were changed (Orlok for Dracula, for example) but otherwise the story remains the same --Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats and with sinister plans for the young couple who are to be his first victims.
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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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Three Alcatraz alumni want to make a "couple of quarters." The prize is a one-million-dollar reward privately offered by a wealthy American for Hitler--dead or alive. From there the story takes a decidedly comical turn as the three ex-gangsters travel to Germany, meet the Gestapo and demand an audience with Hitler--where they shave off his moustache.