(0)Arthur Miller
102) The misfits
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Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
103) All my sons
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A family torn apart by a wartime tragedy is forced to come to terms with their inner demons. Includes original theatrical trailer.
104) The prowler
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A nefarious cop stalks a lonely, repressed Los Angeles housewife and decides to win her by killing her husband.
105) Focus
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Set in New York during the height of World War II, FOCUS recounts the unraveling of an American community when the identity of a man (William H. Macy) and his wife (Laura Dern) are mistaken. Slowly ostracized at home and work, they learn the value of self and solidarity as they struggle to maintain dignity and find happiness. FOCUS marks the directorial debut of award-winning photographer Neal Slavin, and is adapted by Kendrew Lascelles from the Arthur...
107) Mark Twain
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Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
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In Riverton, Maine, circa 1893, Dr. Thomas Stockman wants to disclose that the town's moneymaking health spa "Clearwater Springs" has been fouled by pollution from a tannery. But his proposal to go public is opposed by his brother, Peter, the town mayor, who prompts a wave of public outrage against Dr. Stockman and his family.
110) A royal scandal
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"Russia's Catherine the Great falls in love with a handsome young army officer who is really a revolutionary plotting her downfall"--Container.
111) Incident at Vichy
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Television adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, set in a detention room in Vichy in 1942, where a number of Jews await interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. Issues of personal responsibility are explored through the character of an Austrian prince who has been guilty of silent complicity during the German occupation of France.
112) All my sons
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A wartime tragedy of a family torn apart and forced to come to terms with their inner demons. Chris Keller returns home from war with news of his impending engagement to Ann Deever, the fianceé of his missing-in-action and presumed-dead brother. With Ann come memories better left forgotten. As the ghosts of the past creep back into the Keller home, Chris's father makes a stunning and painful revelation that will change the family forever.'
113) The atheism tapes
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Jonathan Miller, playwright, filmmaker and self-described atheist, filmed conversations with six of today's leading men of letters and science.
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
115) The Ox-bow incident
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Set in 1885 in Nevada. When a popular rancher is murdered and the mayor of his town forms a posse, two travellers join in and are swept up in their mission to seek vengeance, even upon those innocent of any wrongdoing.