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Cowboy (1958)Frontier
Tempers flare and fists fly in COWBOY, an action-packed classic based on the real-life adventures of a young tenderfoot turned tough cattleman. Glenn Ford stars as Tom Reece, a range-hardened trail boss who has just arrived in Chicago after months on the plains. When he loses all his money in a high-stakes poker game, he reluctantly accepts a $3,800 loan from hotel desk clerk Frank Harris (Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon) in exchange for a piece of his cattle business. Frank, a would be cowboy, has fallen hopelessly in love with Maria Vidal (Anna Kashfi) the voluptuous daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher. Though her father forbids the lovers from seeing each again, Frank holds Tom to their partnership agreement and forces the feisty wrangler to take him on the cattle drive to Maria's hometown of Guadalupe. There, the two men find all the excitement they can handle in this all-star Technicolor tale of fiery emotions and dangerous desires. - Director:
- Delmer Daves
- Cast:
- Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi
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17th Century romantic adventure stars Linda Darnell as the amorous courtesan who is able to conquer any man - except the one she really wants. Amber, a village maid, is abandoned pregnant and penniless by Bruce Carlton (Cornel Wilde), a gallant adventurer whom she desperately loves. Amber uses her wits, beauty and courage to sleep her way to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England -that of favourite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II (George Sanders) - all in the hope that Bruce will return. From whores and highwaymen to courtiers and noblemen, from the Great Plague to the Fire of London, Amber experiences it all. But throughout her sexual escapades, her heart remains true to only one man. With its dazzling reproduction of the Restoration, it's convincing swordplay, court drama and war, Otto Preminger's grand swashbuckler is based on the racy novel by Kathleen Winsor. - Director:
- Otto Preminger
- Cast:
- Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene
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John Ford's epic story of boiling passions amongst the burning sands, in which twelve battered, fighting men battle it out to the death. Set during the First World War, a small British Army group is set out on a mission to the Mesopotamian desert but disaster strikes when their commanding officer is shot by an Arab sniper. Unaware of their intended destination, their Sergeant (Victor McLaglen) takes charge and decides to head north to meet up with their brigade. Sheltering at an oasis, they wake up the next morning to discover their lookout dead and their camp surrounded by Arab tribesmen. Left at the mercy of the Arabs and being slowly picked off one-by-one, the men begin to crack under the desert heat and life-or-death situation. As their supplies run low Sanders (Boris Karloff) begins to doubt his sanity but unbeknownst to the soldiers a rescue patrol is only days away... - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford
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Sometimes, an entire life can change in one night. This dark comedic thriller, based on the novel by Chris Bohjalian, stars Kaley Cuoco as Cassie Bowden, a New York-based, globe-trotting flight attendant with a devil-may-care attitude and a history of binge drinking, who relishes flying off at a moment's notice to her next great adventure. But Cassie's glamorous world is thrown into a tailspin when she wakes in the wrong bed, in the wrong hotel, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Haunted by the bleak future she faces if she doesn't clear her name, Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces of a night in Bangkok gone terribly wrong, leading her down a twisted path filled with unsettling discoveries and more than a few illegal escapades. - Director:
- Susanna Fogel
- Cast:
- Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Michiel Huisman, Zosia Mamet
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Danger: Love at Work (1937)Amor en la oficina
In this 1930s screwball comedy lackadaisical lawyer Henry MacMorrow attempts to get the kooky Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal involving part of their estate. Frustrated by the family's scatty entourage which includes a Dali lookalike, an exceedingly precocious child and their whimsical parents, he turns to the beautiful Toni Pemberton, the independently minded daughter of the family, with a fake sob story. The two of them join forces in a bid to gather the signatures from her decidedly odd family - but will it be love or trouble? - Director:
- Otto Preminger
- Cast:
- Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland
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Prohibition's ban on booze is over, and that means bootlegger Remy Marco must make some changes. Don't go calling his beer-peddling enterprise a racket. It's now a business. Employees are no longer lugs or palookas, they're associates. And don't refer to Marco as da boss. Use sir. He's gone legit, see? Edward G. Robinson plays Marco, spoofing his Little Caesar persona in a comedy spree based on Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's Broadway play. Lloyd Bacon, director of Robinson's gangster sendups Brother Orchid and Larceny, Inc., guides with screwball flair as corpses, creditors, the swellest of swells and more mayhem descend on Marco. Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy and Harold Huber - with 340+ career credits between them - are among the lugs-cum-associates. - Director:
- Lloyd Bacon
- Cast:
- Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
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Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines - including PT-boat skippers John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) - will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Director John Ford's World War II tale knows its battle-scarred topic first-hand. Montgomery was himself a Pacific PT-boat commander and a valorous Bronze Star recipient. Ford filmed the Academy Award - winning documentary Battle of Midway. And Wayne creates a portrait of patriotic resolve as only he can. They Were Expendable salutes all who expended themselves during some of the war's bleakest hours. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)Sullivans Reisen
Comedy director John Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to give up his life of luxury and sets off on the road to research how the other half live. He plans to make "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?", a somber, social conscious movie inspired by his experiences of poverty and desperation. A chance encounter with failed starlet (Veronica Lake) enables him to escape the studio publicity machine and learn at first hand the true value of entertainment. - Director:
- Preston Sturges
- Cast:
- Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
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Brian De Palma's 'The Untouchables' is a must-see masterpiece - a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago...and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro
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A King in New York (1957)Un rey en Nueva York
After fleeing his native country, a European monarch (Charles Chaplin) seeks refuge in New York City. It is here that he meets Rupert (Michael Chaplin), a ten-year-old boy whose parents are imprisoned communists, and takes him under his wing. But doing so can have unwanted consequences in 1950s America. Chaplin delivers another sharp satire that bites into every point of the sociopolitical spectrum, from idealistic communism to idolatry consumerism. - Director:
- Charles Chaplin
- Cast:
- Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde
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Dangerous Moonlight (1941)Suicide Squadron
A famous Polish classical pianist and composer, Stefan Radetzky (Anton Walbrook) is suffering from amnesia, and the doctors have given him a piano in the hope that he will remember something about his past. In a series of flashbacks, Radetzky recovers distant memories of his being a Polish fighter pilot who meets Carol (Sally Gray), a beautiful American reporter, whilst he is grounded in Warsaw. There is an instant attraction but they part and six months later the world turns upside down when the Germans invade Poland. Radetzky travels to America to give concerts in order to raise money for Polish refugees and whilst there renews his love affair with Carol again. But as they fall deeply in love, Radetzky is torn by his love for Carol and the need to fight for his country one more time... - Director:
- Brian Desmond-Hurst
- Cast:
- Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, Derrick De Marney
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Ten years ago, a turn-of-the-century scandal over a lover forced Naomi Murdoch (Barbara Stanwyck) to desert her husband and their children for a stage career. Now, returning to their small Wisconsin town to see her daughter in a play, she hopes of a reconciliation. Her appearance is a shock. The town is curious but unforgiving, her high school principal husband is involved with one of his teachers, and her children have mixed feelings about her. When an unexpected turn of events leads to more scandal, Naomi's hopes of starting over are dashed - until some surprising changes occur. - Director:
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger
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Jonathan Tibbs (Kenneth More) reckons that a good way to improve the fortunes of his uncle's London gun company is to sell their products in the Wild West, so he sets off for Fractured Jaw. Once there, a series of misunderstandings give him the completely false reputation of being a smooth-talking, fast-on-the-draw gunman, and he is inveigled into becoming sheriff. With the two trigger-happy local ranches squaring up against each other, it's as well he is getting advice from sassy and sweet-on-him Kate (Jayne Mansfield). - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
- Cast:
- Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Morley
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After young Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady (Walter Huston) and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings
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The feature-film debut from acclaimed writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 'Dragonwyck' is a sumptuous tale starring Gene Tierney, horror-maestro Vincent Price and Walter Huston. Miranda Wells (Tierney) is an ambitious young woman invited by her cousin Nicholas Van Ryn (Price) to stay at Dragonwyck castle. After her arrival, Van Ryn's wife suddenly dies and Miranda finds herself the new object of her cousin's affections. Charming and mysterious, Van Ryn marries the newcomer but soon the new bride learns that her husband is slowly descending into a strange madness. With luscious costumes and eerie black and white photography, 'Dragonwyck' is a sinister treat, ripe for rediscovery. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price
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