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Most Dangerous Game (1932) starring Leslie Banks, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray

Most Dangerous Game

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Most Dangerous Game (1932) starring Leslie Banks, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray

Most Dangerous Game is set on an isolated island in the South Pacific. A deranged Russian exile hunts a shipwreck victim, since other game bores him.

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The Office Wife (1930) starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Blondell

The Office Wife [Lewis Stone]

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The Office Wife (1930) starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead, Joan Blondell

The Office Wife is a drama about a married executive, who shortly after his marriage to a younger woman, hires a new secretary. The secretary is determined to be all business … But she unexpectedly falls in love with the older man anyway.

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King of the Roaring Twenties (1961) starring David Janssen, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster

King of the Roaring Twenties

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King of the Roaring ’20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) starring David Janssen, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster

King of the Roaring Twenties. Moving from one scam to another Arnold Rothstein quickly becomes rich, and settles into the life of owning big-town gambling joints. Along the way he falls in loves and marries, makes a life-long enemy of a cop on the take, and gradually becomes hardened even to his closest friends.

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The Champ (1931) starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

The Champ

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The Champ (1931) starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper

The Champ – the original father-son tale remains one of the all-time great tearjerkers. Wallace Beery plays the washed-up prizefighter making a ring comeback to provide for his son.

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Possessed (1931) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable

Possessed

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Possessed (1931) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford

Possessed is a pre-code story of the allure of wealth and easy living — though at a price, for a beautiful young woman. She becomes a successful attorney’s mistress, and slowly falls in love with him …

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What Price Hollywood? (1932) starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, directed by George Cukor

What Price Hollywood?

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What Price Hollywood? (1932) starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, directed by George Cukor

In What Price Hollywood? a drunken director discovers an actress who goes on to become “America’s Pal”. She falls in love with a rich young man. but the director — and her career — pull them apart. After the director’s eventual suicide, her career falls apart as well.

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Les Miserables (1935) starring Frederic March, Charles Laughton

Les Miserables (1935)

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Les Miserables (1935) starring Fredric March, Charles Laughton

Synopsis

Les Miserables stars screen legends Fredric March and Charles Laughton in this beloved classic based on Victor Hugo’s novel as an ex-convict and the police inspector who relentlessly pursues him.

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Ice Princess (2005) starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusak, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere

Ice Princess (Full Screen Edition) (2005)

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Ice Princess (2005) starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusak, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere

In Ice Princess, a high school physics geek figures out the mathematics behind great figure skating – and tries it to win a scholarship. To her surprise … she actually falls in love with the sport. Can she overcome obstacles? Will she win the scholarship? Will her mother, etc. become whom she wants to be.

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Back from Eternity (1956) starring Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Jesse White, Anita Ekberg, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes, Gene Barry, Fred Clark, Beulah Bondi

Back from Eternity

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Back from Eternity (1956) starring Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Jesse White, Anita Ekberg, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes, Gene Barry, Fred Clark, Beulah Bondi

Back from Eternity is a remake of 1939’s Five Came Back, both directed by John Farrow. It’s the story of the crew and passengers of a crippled plane trying to survive in a South American jungle.

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Keeping Mum (2005) starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Smith

Keeping Mum

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Keeping Mum (2005) starring Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Smith

In Keeping Mum, Walter Goodfellow , vicar of the British village Little Wallop, is busy composing the perfect sermon. So busy, in fact, that he fails to notice his bored wife’s flirtation with her American golf instructor. Or his daughter’s revolving set of boyfriends. Or his son’s status as the favorite target of bullies. Enter Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, who has a drastic solution to the family’s problems.

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