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Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
3) Emma
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Emma Thatcher becomes housekeeper to the Smith family after the mother dies giving birth to her fourth child. After the children are grown, Mr. Smith and Emma marry. Unfortunately, he dies suddenly. When it is discovered that he left everything to Emma in his will, three of the children bring a charge of murder against her.
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"Everybody sing. Everybody dance. Or, failing that, everybody step in place during the famed 'Singin' in the Rain' finale. A torrent of talent takes the screen in the first all-star Talkie Era showcase of heretofore silent-screen players.Fans in Los Angeles and New York were treated to movie marquees that included live showgirls. Once in the theater, they were treated to the on-screen delights of Joan Crawford singing and Charlestoning, Laurel and...
6) The cobweb
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Step inside 'the Castle, ' a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife. A colleague with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife.
7) Madame X
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"Jacqueline leaves her husband for another man, and when she returns to take care of her sick son, her husband flatly rejects her. She leaves without seeing the boy; and beginning her path on the downgrade, she meets and helps a cardsharp named Laroque. When they return to France, her home, Laroque decides that because of her name he can squeeze out a goodly sum from her. At the threat of blackmail, Jacqueline, in a rage, shoots him and is subsequently...
8) The search
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"In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survivied Auschwitz wanders alone -- feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human...
9) The citadel
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"Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-ins. Young Dr. Andrew Manson fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a dedicated healer until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces him to face what he's become. And what he's lost"--Container.
10) Fighter squadron
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"U.S. airman Ed Hardin pilots a damaged P-47 Thunderbolt toward a perilous but successful belly flop landing at his fighter-group base in the English countryside. The battered aircraft may never wing into the skies again. Hardin will. 'Notify the taxpayer to get me another one,' he quips. Hardin tempers his flyboy recklessness when the men of the squadron are entrusted to his leadership"--Container.
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"Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and desperation of men with nothing to lose. Included in this historic triple-feature set are the rarely seen French- and Spanish-language 'parallel production' versions"--Container.
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"At the Cirque de Paris, society magician and famous disappearing artist Chéri-Bibi performs his act before a well-heeled Parisian audience. While Cecile, his friend and admirer, waits in his dressing room, unable to watch the daring feat, Chéri, with his hands and legs bound, is lowered into a tank of water. The audience grows silent as the clock ticks away, and firemen wait on the sidelines, prepared to rescue the magician should he fail to emerge...
15) Front page woman
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"Reporters Ellen and Curt are very much in love, but working at competing newspapers. Curt's not willing to concede that a woman can sniff out news as well as a man, and Ellen refuses to marry him until he does. A nearby apartment fire and a mysterious murder will soon test their investigative skills, and their feelings for each other"--Container.
18) Our daily bread
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Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in forming a successful communal farm.
19) Safe in hell
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After killing an ex-boyfriend in New Orleans, a prostitute flees to a Caribbean island. There the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her, unaware that she is a fugitive.
20) Big city
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"Midge is the luckiest girl in New York. Found abandoned as an infant, she's adopted by a cantor, a reverend and a Catholic cop, who raise her together as only three loving fathers can. But when the police officer marries a saloon singer and insists on sole custody, the trio winds up in court where Midge, with the help of a kind-hearted judge, must decide what's best for her fathers as well as herself"--Container.