Casey Robinson
21) Days of glory
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In a movie extolling the courage of our Russian allies battling Nazi invaders, a then unknown Gregory Peck makes his film debut playing a steely guerrilla leader preparing for a desperate mission he knows he and his band of fighters cannot survive.
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Based on the stage presentation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier musical. In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But he has problems in his personal life, because he refuses to marry his fiance until the war is over.
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"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer.
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"When a blackmailer suddenly appears in her dressing room and threatens to expose her dark past, London stage star Stella Parish goes into hiding, boarding a ship for the States. Turning up at a New York hotel with her six-year-old daughter in tow. Stella is befriended by Keith Lockridge, a stranger she met on the boat. Hoping to keep the truth from her child, Stella confides her secret to Keith, unaware he's a reporter who's out for the story and...
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They drive by night: Paul Fabrini and his brother Joe are wildcat drivers--men who buy their trucks on installment plans and then worry that loan sharks will repossess their trucks. As they drive their truck over rough California roads, night after night, their rough life gets even tougher when they get involved with murder and the mob.
Action in the North Atlantic: Humphrey Bogart stars in this exciting drama about a Merchant Marine vessel's fight...
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Now, voyager: A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...
28) Four's a crowd
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"Flynn plays a PR dynamo who rigs a toy train race to win a grumpy millionaire as a client -- and tries to win the millionaire's granddaughter too"--Container.
29) American heroes
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Comedy, musical review and American patriotism are the themes in this four-movie collection for 1940s-1950s movie star fans.
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Jean Matrac is a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps. Passage sailed into theaters on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that attacked the freighter. That a soldier of freedom would act ignobly brought protests from religious and censorship groups.
31) This is the Army
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An Irving Berlin musical tribute intended to boost morale during World War II. It honors the patriotic efforts of American soldiers during World Wars I and II. Berlin appears as himself, as does singer Kate Smit, h who sings God bless America, for which she received the Congressional Gold Medal. Ronald Reagan stars as Johnny Jones, a son who follows in his father's show business footsteps. During World War I his father staged an all-soldier show on...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (102 mins.): Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
Sea Hawk (128 mins.:) A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Captain Blood (119 mins.): Arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion and falsely convicted of treason, Dr. Peter Blood is banished...
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"Jezebel": In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back. "Dark victory": A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity. "All this, and heaven too": A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever....
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Mogambo: Victor Marswell, a safari guide who captures wild animals for zoos and circuses, is the center of a love triangle.
Now, voyager: Charlotte Vale, a middle-aged spinster, suffers a nervous breakdown because of her domineering mother and is finally freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise.