Fredric March
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This struggle between Christian and pagan in ancient Rome thrills on the grand scale. The half-mad Emperor Nero delights in burning the city and blaming the fire on the Christians so he can slaughter them. In the midst of this, Rome's Prefect has the misfortune to fall in love with a Christian maiden and to be desired by Nero's powerful Empress, whom he spurns. The stage is thus set for a spectacular enactment of some of the most chilling events of...
46) Susan and God
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Wealthy, impulsive Susan Trexel undergoes a religious conversion, one undoubtedly destined to last as long as this season's hemline length. In the meantime, Susan insists everyone around her - including her neglected husband and child - alter their lives (and loves) to conform to her latest whim.
47) An act of murder
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A no-nonsense judge in a small Pennsylvania town, finds his thoughts turning to end the life of his beloved wife.
48) Inherit the wind
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Based on the real-life 1925 trial featuring Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond battles fundamentalist Matthew Brady in a Tennessee courtroom when schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution.
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Little women: The March sisters in an Academy Award winning version of the cherished Louisa May Alcott novel. Pride and prejudice: Mr. Darcy sets maiden hearts aflutter, except that of Elizabeth Bennett. Madame Bovary: All she wanted was everything. Anna Karenina: Garbo risks all for the perfect love in Tolstoy's tale of romance and Imperial Russia.
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"Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fredric March star in [this] intense romantic drama from trailblazing female director Dorothy Arzner. An office flirtation turns deadly when secretary Julia Traynor's jealous husband questions the nature of her relationship with her former boss"--Container.
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Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
54) Smilin' through
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When a man's fianceé is shot dead on the couple's wedding day by a rejected lover who was aiming for him, was left to raise his fianceés niece who eventually falls in love with the murderer's son. The past sweeps back to haunt the present.
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Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
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Devil and the deep: A lieutenant whose commanding officer suspects him of seducing his wife overlooks the real threat: another officer.
The eagle and the hawk: World War I drama about a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost: World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
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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.
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Picnic: A slice-of-life drama set in small town Kansas; a drifter drops in on his old college buddy, and falls for the buddy's girl.
Jeanne Eagels:The tragic career of a stage and screen star whose climb for the top pushed her over the edge.
Bell Book and Candle: A witch gets bored, and longs for a more 'normal' existence, only to fall in love with her upstairs neighbor.
Middle of the Night: A young woman is in a relationship with her boss, nearly...
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Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.