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The Golden Age of Hollywood, Vol. I
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A playlist of films dedicated to the Golden Age of Hollywood era…The 40ies, 50ies & 60ies


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Movie: The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 )
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Movie: Hello, Dolly! ( 1969 )
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
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Movie: Prince Valiant ( 1954 )
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
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Movie: Doctor Dolittle ( 1967 )
Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.
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Movie: David and Bathsheba ( 1951 )
After King David sees the beautiful Bathsheba bathing from the palace roof, he enters into an adulterous affair which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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Movie: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ( 1963 )
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
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Movie: Julius Caesar ( 1953 )
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force, and surrounds Brutus and Cassius, but they kill themselves to avoid capture.
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Movie: The Blue Max ( 1966 )
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
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Movie: Viva Zapata! ( 1952 )
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
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Movie: Seven Cities of Gold ( 1956 )
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
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Movie: Quo Vadis ( 1951 )
Fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.
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Movie: Land of the Pharaohs ( 1955 )
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
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Movie: The Colossus of Rhodes ( 1961 )
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Movie: The Old Man and the Sea ( 1958 )
An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.
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Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 )
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
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Movie: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1945 )
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
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Movie: Sergeant York ( 1941 )
A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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Movie: Damn Yankees ( 1959 )
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
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Movie: Cloak and Dagger ( 1946 )
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
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Movie: Now, Voyager ( 1942 )
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
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Movie: Dial M for Murder ( 1954 )
A tennis player frames his unfaithful wife for first-degree murder after she inadvertently hinders his plan to kill her.
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Movie: Destination Tokyo ( 1943 )
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
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Movie: House of Wax ( 1953 )
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
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Movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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Movie: Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 )
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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Movie: Giant ( 1956 )
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
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Movie: Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 )
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
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Movie: Dark Passage ( 1947 )
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Movie: Indiscreet ( 1958 )
Anna Kalman is a London-based actress. She has been unable to find love in her life. The reason why she came home early from a vacation to Majorca fits into that theme, as the man she met there and was initially attracted to ended up not being who she thought he was as a man. Upon her arrival home, she meets the suave Philip Adams, a financier who is a work acquaintance of her brother-in-law, diplomat Alfred Munson. Philip initially states that there is no Mrs. Adams in his life. But when Anna later asks him out, he clarifies that statement in that there is no Mrs. Adams in London, as she is at home in San Francisco. Regardless, Anna decides still to ask him on the date she had intended to the ballet. He accepts, letting her know that whatever happens between the two of them that he will never be able to leave his wife. As time goes on, the two fall in love, their happiness which can only be sustained as long as Philip has his Paris-based contract with NATO. So, when Philip announces that he is being transferred to New York for five months, Anna comes to the realization that she truly cannot live without him and wants to marry him. Shortly thereafter, Anna learns something about Philip's background, which not only threatens their relationship, but leads to a night that Anna wants to give him that he will never forget, and not in a good way. But the best laid plans may have a bumpy road to being executed effectively.
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Movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 )
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
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Movie: To Have and Have Not ( 1945 )
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second world war is happening around them business is not what it could be. After a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay, they are forced against their better judgment to violate their preferred neutrality and to take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days.
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Movie: My Fair Lady ( 1964 )
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
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Movie: Richard III ( 1956 )
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
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Movie: Air Force ( 1943 )
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Movie: Queen of the Nile ( 1961 )
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
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Movie: Nightmare Alley ( 1947 )
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
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Movie: The Glenn Miller Story ( 1954 )
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
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Movie: The Killers ( 1946 )
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
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Movie: The House of the Seven Gables ( 1940 )
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Movie: The Spider Woman ( 1944 )
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes in Washington ( 1943 )
Sherlock Holmes is engaged by the Home Office to locate a British subject traveling for his law firm to Washington, D.C. The man had flown to New York City and then took the train to Washington. On the outskirts of the city, the man was kidnapped and has not been seen for several days now. Holmes learns from the Home Office that the man was in fact a government agent who was delivering a highly secret, two page document to the US government. In verifying the contents at his flat, Holmes concludes the document had been reduced to microfilm. The question becomes whether he may have had the opportunity to pass the microfilm to someone else on the train before he was taken.
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Movie: The House of Fear ( 1945 )
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon ( 1943 )
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ( 1942 )
When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio 'Voice of Terror', the Intellegence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are visited the first night of their investigation; a man falls dying from a knife wound on their doorstep. His last word leads Holmes into the slums where he encounters Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), the sweetheart of the slain man.
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Movie: The Woman in Green ( 1945 )
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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Movie: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death ( 1943 )
During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
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Movie: Terror by Night ( 1946 )
Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, a 423 carat diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret. Suspecting the diamond will be stolen on a train trip from London to Edinburgh in Scotland, Holmes deftly switches diamonds with Lady Margaret while in her compartment admiring the jewel. Soon after, Roland is murdered and the fake diamond is stolen. Red herrings abound as Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, discover the murderer's hiding place and deduce that long-time nemesis Professor Moriarty's henchman, Colonel Sebastian Moran, is somehow involved in the crime.
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Movie: The Sleeping City ( 1950 )
In New York, the murder of a Bellvue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate.
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Movie: Abandoned ( 1949 )
Newspaperman helps girl find her sister's illegitimate baby, gets mixed up in baby-adoption racket.
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Movie: Man of a Thousand Faces ( 1957 )
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
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Movie: Johnny Angel ( 1945 )
When a New Orleans merchant ship captain finds his father's sister ship derelict at sea, he investigates the crew's mysterious disappearance amid rumors of a smuggled gold cargo.
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Movie: Jet Pilot ( 1957 )
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
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Movie: Blackbeard, the Pirate ( 1953 )
Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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Movie: Hans Christian Andersen ( 1953 )
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
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Movie: The Kid from Brooklyn ( 1946 )
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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Movie: The Court Jester ( 1955 )
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful king.
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Movie: White Christmas ( 1954 )
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
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Movie: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1949 )
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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Movie: High Society ( 1956 )
A spoiled heiress must choose among three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter.
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Movie: Ivanhoe ( 1953 )
In the center of this Walter Scott classic fiction inspired movie the chivalrousness and the daring stand. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), the disowned knight join to the bravehearted and high-minded Robin of Locksley (Harold Warrender), the valiant of Sherwood Forest. They want King Richard (Norman Wooland) to rule the kingdom instead of evil Prince John (Guy Rolfe).
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Movie: National Velvet ( 1945 )
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
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Movie: The Taming of the Shrew ( 1967 )
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio (Richard Burton) tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina (Dame Elizabeth Taylor).
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Movie: Kiss of Death ( 1947 )
Nick Bianco is caught during a botched jewellery heist. The prosecution offer him a more lenient sentence if he squeals on his accomplices but he doesn't roll over on them. Three years into the sentence an event changes his mind.
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Movie: Demetrius and the Gladiators ( 1954 )
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe (1953)" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith.
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Movie: I Married a Witch ( 1942 )
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
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Movie: The Fighting Seabees ( 1944 )
During WW2, the U.S. Navy implements a new idea of forming construction battalions that also are fighting units, in case of Japanese attack.
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Movie: King of the Khyber Rifles ( 1954 )
A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.
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Movie: Springtime in the Rockies ( 1942 )
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
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Movie: Copacabana ( 1947 )
An agent has his only client pose as both a French chanteuse and Brazilian bombshell to fool a nightclub owner.
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Movie: Brigadoon ( 1954 )
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
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Movie: Salome ( 1953 )
After her banishment from Rome, Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salome's parents, King Herod and Queen Herodias.
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Movie: The Girl Can't Help It ( 1956 )
A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star.
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Movie: Boom Town ( 1940 )
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
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Movie: The Wild Angels ( 1966 )
The "Angels", a San Pedro motorcycle gang, parties in the Coachella Valley's Palm Springs Indian Canyons, California, and wreaks havoc with the local police.
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Movie: The Pirate ( 1948 )
It is the year 1830. In the Spanish Main, local beauty Manuela Alva, is living on the island of Calvados and dreams of falling in love with the legendary Caribbean pirate known as "Macoco", sometimes called "the black Macoco" due to his fearsome buccaneering and looting. However, her guardians, her aunt and uncle, aiming to get rich, insist that she marry Don Pedro, the town mayor, an arrogant and bullying much older man. She resigns herself to her fate but before the wedding, in nearby Port Sebastian, she meets by chance a troupe of traveling circus actors, led by the handsome Serafin. Attracted to each another but, while Serafin wants to woo Manuela, she refuses his advances claiming to be promised in marriage to Don Pedro. At the circus show, during a hypnosis act, Serafin learns that Manuela is secretly enamored of Macoco. This revelation persuades Serafin to resort to a trick to woo her. He pretends to be the famous pirate Macoco and he plays the part well, assisted by the complicity of his troupe. His performance is so well-executed that it convinces everyone, including Manuela, that he truly is Macoco the pirate. Unfortunately, it also convinces the local authorities and the visiting Spanish Viceroy that he is a wanted pirate. Serafin, masquerading as Macoco, is arrested by the Spanish troops. Despite his pleas that he only is a circus actor impersonating a pirate, he is found guilty of piracy, partly on fake evidence supplied by a fearful and jealous Don Pedro. Serafin, aka Macoco the pirate, is sentenced to death by hanging. Only a miracle can save his neck but Serafin and Manuela manage to arrange one.
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Movie: His Girl Friday ( 1940 )
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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Movie: The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 )
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Movie: Rosie the Riveter ( 1944 )
In wartime 1944 in California,defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental-room with Charlie Doran and Kelly Kennedy, who work the other shift at the plant. The landlady, Grandma Quill , also has her grandchildren, Buzz Prouty and Mabel Prouty , and her daughter Stella Prouty ---who is on the outs with her husband Clem ---living with her. Rosie doesn't tell her fiancé, Wayne Calhoun ,about the living arrangements, and is also plotting with Vera to re-unite the Proutys. Rosie pawns the engagement ring Wayne gave her for money for Clem and Stella. Rosie and Charlie fall in love and get their picture in the paper. Wayne huffingly breaks the engagement and wants his ring returned.
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Movie: Sea Devils ( 1953 )
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon, if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Douchette, an English agent, whose cover has been blown,and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
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Movie: Monkey Business ( 1952 )
Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.
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Movie: Don't Bother to Knock ( 1952 )
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
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Movie: Kings Go Forth ( 1958 )
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.
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Movie: Trapeze ( 1956 )
A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.
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Movie: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ( 1957 )
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Movie: Mister Roberts ( 1955 )
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
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Movie: White Heat ( 1949 )
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
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Movie: The Time of Your Life ( 1948 )
A wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
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Movie: Blood on the Sun ( 1945 )
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
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Movie: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye ( 1950 )
Starting with a violent prison break, clever, ruthless Ralph Cotter corrupts everyone around him.
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Movie: Pillow Talk ( 1959 )
In New York, the interior decorator Jan Morrow and the wolf composer Brad Allen share a party line, but Brad keeps it busy most of the time flirting with his girlfriends. They do not know each other but Jan hates Brads since she needs the telephone for her business and can not use it. Coincidently Jan's wealthy client Jonathan Forbes that woos her is the best friend of Brad and he comments with him that he feels an unrequited love for Jan, who is a gorgeous woman. When Brad meets Jan by chance in a restaurant, he poses as a naive tourist from Texas named Rex Stetson and seduces her. But Jonathan hires a private eye to find who Rex Stetson is.
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Movie: The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 )
An American physician and his wife take matters into their own hands after assassins planning to execute a foreign Prime Minister kidnap their son.
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Movie: Forever and a Day ( 1943 )
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from its construction in 1804 until the present.
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Movie: Saboteur ( 1942 )
An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
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Movie: The Wrong Man ( 1957 )
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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Movie: Marnie ( 1964 )
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
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Movie: Strangers on a Train ( 1951 )
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.
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Movie: Stage Fright ( 1950 )
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
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Movie: Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 )
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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Movie: Rear Window ( 1954 )
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
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Movie: Suspicion ( 1941 )
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.