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In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold.

When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus, finally reach their impossible destination, they find themselves stranded in a lunar labyrinth without walls - where emotions run scattershot, and the new goal becomes survival. A modern Daedalus tale which uncannily foretold Germany's wartime push into rocket-science, Frau im Mond is as much a warning-sign against human hubris as it is a hopeful depiction of mankind's potential.

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When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) witnesses the arrival of alien ships from a distant world, an incredible series of events begins- planes which disappeared during the Second World War are found intact in Mexico, long lost ships mysteriously re-appear in the middle of the desert and people from all

around the world, including Neary are convinced that someone is trying to communicate with them. Nearys search to find an answer leads him to take part in the ultimate encounter with the extra-Terrestrials and to board the vast, beautiful Mothership.

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Two of the most talented comedians to ever grace the silver screen, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had firmly established their enduring partnership by the time the age of talking pictures loomed at the end of the 1920s.

As they made their final silent shorts together in 1929, they continued to build upon the double act forged in earlier films such as 'You're Darn Tootin', 'Should Married Men Go Home?' and 'We Faw Down' - and prepared themselves for success in the sound era. This collection brings together the silent Laurel and Hardy shorts produced in 1929, as the Boys reached new levels of fame and success: Libertycasts Stan and Ollie as fugitives on the run; in 'Wrong Again', the Boys try to claim a reward by returning a lost horse to a bewildered millionaire seeking a stolen painting; 'That's My Wife' sees Stan pose as Ollie's spouse; in 'Big Business', the Boys go door-to-door selling Christmas trees; 'Double Whoopee' sees them take jobs at a fancy hotel; in 'Bacon Grabbers', Stan and Ollie are bailiffs tasked with recovering a radio; in 'Angora Love', they try to conceal a goat that has become very, very attached to them; in 'Unaccustomed As We Are', Ollie invites Stan over for dinner and attracts the ire of Mrs Hardy; and, finally, 'Berth Marks' has the pair cause abject chaos on a sleeper train.

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Nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper (Gary Cooper) is recruited by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services to become a reluctant undercover agent, traveling to Switzerland to meet with a fellow scientist regarding information on Germany's plans to construct an atomic bomb.

After this colleague is assassinated, Jesper must sneak into Italy via the underground resistance, to contact another scientist. While there, Jesper falls in love with resistance fighter Gina (Lilli Palmer, in her first Hollywood role), and the two must battle shootouts, double crosses, and narrow escapes to smuggle the scientist out of Italy.

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Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders the West obsessed with finding the men responsible for murdering his fiancee.

His quest leads him to 'Chuck-a-Luck' - the film's original title - a combination horse ranch and criminal hideout overseen by saloon chanteuse Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich). Posing as an escaped criminal, Haskell falls in with murderous gunslinger Frenchy Fairmont (Mel Ferrer) and slowly but surely becomes indistinguishable from those he is hunting. Adapted from a story the director had developed with Sylvia Richards, Lang and screenwriter Daniel Taradash fashioned a highly moral and distinctly feminist tale that innovatively re-worked his quintessential themes of love, betrayal and retribution. A troubled production due to the interventions of studio head Howard Hughes and the fiery relationship between Lang and the iconic Dietrich - seldom better - 'Rancho Notorious' is now justly celebrated as a unique and visionary classic.

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"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul.

Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside...and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.

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After being blinded, a young woman Sarah (Mia Farrow) goes to live in the English countryside with relatives. Out on a date with a boyfriend, she escapes the fate of her relatives who are murdered by a crazed killer.

She finally makes the gruesome discovery of their bodies and has to flee on horseback. She is rescued but the murderer is still out there.

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At the height of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, four German exiles in Hollywood - director Fritz Lang, playwright Bertolt Brecht (earning his only US credit), composer Hanns Eisler and actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski - pooled their talents to create Hangmen Also Die!, a remarkable film

about the Czech resistance. Twardowski plays Reinhard Heydrich, an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and the 'Reich-Protector' of Czechoslovakia, known alternately as The Hangman' and The Butcher of Prague'. When he is assassinated by a surgeon (played by Brian Donlevy), the city is locked down and the doctor must rely on the help of the resistance to evade capture.

While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets, newspaper publisher Walter Kyne pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story, but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences.

Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Boris Karloff) out of lifeless body parts.

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When Orfamay Quest hires Philip Marlowe (James Garner) to find her brother, it seems like just another missing persons case. But soon enough Marlowe's investigation leads him on a trail of blackmail and murder, all of it seemingly linked to a mobster and his TV star mistress.

Luscious starlets, pugnacious gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks...welcome to Marlowe country!

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In Luis Bunuel's darkly comic psychodrama, a reawakened childhood memory convinces rich, cultured Archibaldo (Ernesto Alonso) that he is able to cause the death of others. But his murderous impulses are frustrated at every turn, driving him to find ever more inventive ways to fulfil his desires.

A key work of his Mexican period, Bunuel's gloriously twisted film anticipates his later works with an ambiguous tale of erotic obsession. Full of pitch-black humour and surrealist flourishes, the film is an unjustly neglected gem from one of cinema's greatest artists.

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One by one, the victims fell, each death more gruesome than the last. The actual murders that rocked Boston in the 60's are the gripping subject matter of this unforgettable police thriller. Henry Fonda stars as the investigating police detective.

Tony Curtis delivers a stunning performance as the psychopath Fonda must conquer. Filmed in a documentary style that makes the horrifying events all the more real, 'The Boston Strangler' is one of the most powerful films in its genre.

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Inspector Maigret (Albert Prejean) of the Parisian police has recently been bothered rather too often by Cecile Pardon (Santa Relli), who insists on speaking to him frequently.

Each time, she reports to Maigret that someone has been breaking into the house she shares with her elderly aunt late at night, but the Inspector is much too busy investigating a gang of counterfeiters to look into her fanciful claims. He can't ignore Cecile for long, though - for soon Cecile is dead, murdered in the very same police station in which she has been pleading for his help.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.