This Land is Mine is the story of a Nazi-occupied town in France, where a meek schoolteacher is accused of murdering a resistance fighter. He’s in love with the dead man’s sister, and is later tried for killing a Nazi collaborator.
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Edison the Man – A biography of Thomas Alva Edison, starring Spencer Tracy. It’s the story of Edison, starting as a young man, beginning his career, through the fight to bring electric lighting to New York City.
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Going My Way was the 1944 Best picture Academy Award winner. When old fading St. Dominic’s Church gets a new young priest, things are bound to change. The air is filled with music from the classic “Ave Maria” sung by Metropolitan Opera star Rise Stevens to the Academy Award winning “Swinging on a Star“
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Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) is a worthless cheat. Then he marries Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine), the naïve daughter of a wealthy retired general (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). And everyone except Lina believes Johnnie is only after her inheritance. But when Lina discovers that Johnnie has stolen money, his business partner dies mysteriously …. And she finds a letter explaining her life insurance policy …. Love changes to Suspicion!
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Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton, Citizen Kane ), a naïve writer of pulp westerns, arrives in Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Lime (the incomparable Orson Welles). But he finds that Lime has apparently been killed in a suspicious accident. Martins, too curious for his own good, hears contradictory stories about the circumstances of Limes’ death. As witnesses disappear, he finds himself chased by unknown assailants. Complicating matters are the sardonic Major Calloway (Trevor Howard, Brief Encounter), head of the British forces, and Lime’s stage actress mistress, Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli). Will Martin’s curiosity lead him to discover things about his old friend that he’d rather not know?
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A Patch of Blue – A black man’s burgeoning love affair with a blind white girl is complicated by her racist, controlling mother.
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Rebecca – A British gentleman’s innocent bride grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.
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Titanic (1953) is the story of an unhappily married couple, on board the doomed ship.
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In A Face in the Crowd, an Arkansas drifter is discovered by the producer of a small radio station. He’s a philosophical country/western singer Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes. He’s “discovered” in the local jail by television talent coordinator Marcia Jeffries. His folksy style make him an overnight media sensation. He ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. But after becoming consumed by his power …. Will he ever be exposed as the fraud he’s become?
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In this unhistorical account, Captain Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India.
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