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21) 1776
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With the Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies! And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit! It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with England into a Declaration of Independence!
22) My reputation
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After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion vs. security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
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"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work, " Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men.
25) The working man
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Made at the height of the Great Depression when it was popular to attack capitalism and America's free market economy, this film shows how capitalism can be fun and how the free market creates new jobs. Mr. A plays a shoe manufacturing tycoon who sees his chance to take over a rival's business. Complications ensue and Mr. A ends up competing with his own company.
26) Housewife
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This turgid melodrama finds modern bachelor girl Patricia Berkeley dueling it out with modern housewife Nan Reynolds for the affections and ministrations of Nan's husband, William. Ambitious office manager William finally succeeds in setting up shop for himself in the advertising biz thanks to help from copywriter Pat and ideas from housewife Nan. When his late nights working at the office with Pat turn into something else, Nan must decide if William...
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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.
28) Night and day
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The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
29) 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.
30) 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.
33) Anthony Adverse
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Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.