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Josephine Norris (Olivia de Havilland) volunteers for a fire watch with Lord Desham (Ronald Culver) on the rooftops of London during the Blitz. When Lord Desham is nearly killed during the air raid, the ageing pair reminisce over the lost loves of their youth.

Josephine recalls her first and only love affair with World War I fighter pilot Captain Bart Cosgrove (John Lund). Their whirlwind romance during a fundraising tour for the American war effort lasts only a few days, but when Captain Cosgrove returns to the front, Josephine finds herself pregnant with an illegitimate child in an American backwater town. When she learns of Captain Cosgrove's death in action Josephine realises that she can never marry the father of her child, so she decides to contrive an adoption of the child to herself. But fate plays its own hand...

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Destination Moon takes you back in time to before the Space Age for a trip to the moon the way it should be done. You'll ride in a cigar-shaped rocket with Cadillac fins, wear a bubble-headed spacesuit, walk in space and worry how you're all going to get home on the remaining fuel.

Although Destination Moon was eerily accurate, actual spaceflight turned out to be a bit more complex, but much less stylish.

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A Hitchcockian thriller, Chase A Crooked Shadow stars Anne Baxter as Kimberley Prescott, a wealthy young women whose life is turned upside down by sudden appearance of an enigmatic young man claiming to be her dead brother.

Convinced the man is lying, Kimberly is dismayed to find the entire household , including her own uncle, accepting the man into the family in desperation to a Police Chief for help. But can they discover the secret behind the mysterious stranger, before it is too late?

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Guilty? Innocent? Those questions aren't for high-powered Chicago attorney Marin Vail (Richard Gere) to decide. His job is to defend - especially if a case will put his name in the headlines and further his career.

When Cail hears that a penniless altar boy (Edward Norton) is accused of murdering the local archbishop, he snaps up the case, eager for the media spotlight. Little does he know that it will uncover a viper's nest of corruption, pit him against a prosecutor (Laura Linney), who's his ex-lover, and test all his skill, judgment and even his win-at-any-cost attitude.

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It's a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else's creative vision. Yet, that's exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

The young actor surrendered his thriving career to become Kubrick's loyal right-hand man. For more than two decades, Leon played a crucial role behind-the-scenes helping Kubrick make and maintain his legendary body of work. The complex, interdependent relationship between Leon and Kubrick was founded on devotion, sacrifice and the grueling, joyful reality of the creative process. By entering their unique world we come to understand how the mundane gives rise to the magnificent as timeless cinema is brought to life at its most practical and profound level.

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Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high speed, high-class tale of Middle Eastern intrigue set in London. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, this breezy, romantic thrill casts Peck as an Oxford professor of languages hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message.

When Peck unravels its real meaning and befriends Sophia Loren, the magnate's exotic but unpredictable companion, the chase is on.

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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr.

Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own.

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Married at a very early age to her cousin, Therese Raquin (Simone Signoret) leads an uneventful and joyless existence void of romance with her selfish husband and authoritarian aunt.

The arrival of the handsome Italian Laurent (Raf Vallone) to whom Camille (Jacques Duby) has taken a liking, turns her life upside down. Straight away, sparks of love and passion fly between Thérèse and Laurent, however Camille refuses to agree to a divorce and plans to take Thérèse to Paris, away from temptation. En route, Camille is pushed off the train after a violent dispute with Laurent. The inquiry draws the conclusion of accidental death. However, a young sailor who witnessed the entire scene starts blackmailing Laurent...

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Loretta Young delivers a fine performance as the wronged wife Ellen Jones in this classic movie thriller. Bruce Cowling plays the role of the husband who, recovering from a near fatal heart attack, wrongly believes that his wife has been an affair with somebody else and seeks vengeance.

Determined to get revenge, he decides to frame his wife for murder. Loretta Young, as Ellen Jones, makes frantic efforts to retrieve a posted letter with fabricated evidence, which could see her being wrongly tried for murder. In this Hitchcock-style suspense thriller, Loretta Young, Bruce Cowling and Barry Sullivan deliver some out-standing per-formances that will remain in the memory long after you have watched the movie..

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Chicago Morning Post editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy).

Then a late breaking story involving the impending execution of an anarchist who escapes and is hidden from the police by the former husband and wife throws the pair together once again.

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After witnessing a mob hit, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott) goes on the run, fearing for his life. Inspector Ferris (Robert Keith) and Detective Shaw (Frank Jenks) are suspicious when they interview his uncooperative and seemingly uncaring wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheridan).

But when Eleanor is approached by tabloid reporter Danny Leggatt (Dennis O'Keefe) offering to help find her husband, it appears Leggatt is not all he seems! The riveting twists and turns, together with the acerbic wit and charisma of the leading lady, keeps this thriller bubbling along as we head for a dramatic final showdown.

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Set in the late 19th century, the film follows aspiring magician Don Gallico (Vincent Price) as he becomes embroiled in a conflict with his boss, Mr. Ormond (Donald Randolph), over the ownership of his illusions.

When the feud turns deadly, Gallico resorts to great lengths to cover his misdeeds and preserve his status as Gallico the Great.

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Jack London's novel 'The Sea Wolf' had it all: action, mystery and widespread popularity. But Jack Warner, claiming the title was too similar to the studio's 'The Sea Hawk', wanted to give the 1941 film version something else: a new name.

Producer Henry Blanke resisted, saying it would be "a detriment to the box office...(like changing) 'Gone with the Wind' to 'Molly from the South'". As film fans know, Molly stayed in the South and the haunting nautical adventure took a big bite out of the box office, becoming one of the top moneymakers of 1940-41. Edward G. Robinson and a superb cast are the hands on deck for this voyage into nightmare. Robinson is Captain Wolf Larsen, a hell-bent seadog who ranks with Moby Dick's Ahab and Mutiny on the Bounty's Captain Bligh. Doom is the mad seafarer's fog-shrouded port of call...and he intends to take a roughneck recruit (John Garfield), 2 castaways (Ida Lupino and Alexander Knox) and his crew (including Gene Lockhart and Barry Fitzgerald) with him. Adventure - and eerie suspense - ahoy! 'The Sea Wolf' was such a box-office hit that it was given a national theatrical reissue in 1947, but to do so, the film was cut to a length of 86 minutes, and remained that length for 70 years. Long thought to exist only in substandard form, Warner Bros, is proud to present this film as first released in 1941, restoring its original 100-minute running time from 35mm nitrate elements.

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Eve (Natasha Parry), Carole (Diana Dors), Georgie (Petula Clarke) and Mary (Jane Hylton) all work in the same local factory. Their only means of escape from the daily grind are the Saturday nights they spend at the Chiswick Palais, dancing to big band jazz.

Eve is just looking for a good time, enjoying the attention from her many male admirers, Carole is searching for a future husband, Georgie dreams of one day dancing professionally, and Mary has seen it all before. Together they share their hopes and aspirations leading up to the biggest event on their calendar, the Chiswick Palais dance contest.

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage.