Michael Curtiz
21) 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...
23) 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.
24) 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.
26) 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.
27) 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.
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The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
29) Four daughters
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"This story of music professor Adam Lemp, his four daughters and the men that love them aims straight at the heart and scores an unerring hit. Poignant, laced with laughter and flawlessly acted, it catches viewers up in the quiet but powerful lives of ordinary people"--Container.
30) 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.
31) The Comancheros
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Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (Wayne) arrests gambler Paul Regret (Whitman) but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a violent band of gunrunners and thieves known as the Comancheros. The last film of director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca).
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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...
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The stars and director of Four Daughters reunite for another tender Golden Era classic about love, loyalty and the sustaining strength of family. This time, the story revolves around a father who returns 20 years after abandoning his wife and daughters, just in time to warn his youngest against throwing her happiness away on a footloose charmer just like Dad.
38) The mad genius
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Crippled in mind and body, half-crazed puppeteer Ivan Tsarakov fulfills his dream of becoming a ballet dancer through Fedor Ivanoff, whom he trains to become the world₂s greatest danseur. Jealous of his pupil's success and fearing love will thwart Fedor's career, Tsarakov has smitten ballerina Nana Carlova dismissed from the troupe in a cruel and ruthless act that leads to blackmail and murder.
39) Mildred Pierce
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Criterion collection volume 860
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"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...