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One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, 'Funny Girl' follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business.

When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings down the house with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold up. The film's many memorable songs include 'Don't Rain on My Parade' and the Streisand classic 'People'.

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John Wayne teams with William Holden and eminent westerner John Ford for this frontier action packed with laughter, romance and thrills.

Written by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin, this faithful representation of one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history, is both a moving tribute to the men who fought and died in that bloody war, and a powerful, action-packed drama. Based on an actual Civil War incident, The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. In command is hard-bitten Colonel Marlowe (Wayne), a man who is strikingly contrasted by the company's gentle surgeon (Holden) and the beautiful but crafty Southern Belle (Constance Towers) who's forced to accompany the Union raiders on perhaps the most harrowing mission in the war.

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Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) just doesn't look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews (Doris Davenport) tells Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar to buy drinks for the jury.

He notices two big pictures of Lily Langtry (Lilian Bond) behind the bar. Sure, Cole has met the Jersey Lily, whom the hanging judge adores, even has a lock of her hair. Hanging is delayed for two weeks, giving Cole time to get in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders and to still be around when Lily Langtry, former mistress of Edward VII who became an international actress, arrives in Texas.

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George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier) is a respectable family man of comfortable means. But he throws it all away for the love of Carrie.

Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral", William Wyler's 'Carrie' is a powerhouse of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie (Jennifer Jones), the smalltown girl come to Chicago.

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Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon (Jack Hawkins) starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer.

From there, his 'typical day' consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of a payroll robbery and, then, helps break up a bank robbery. His long day ends when he arrives at home and finds that his daughter has a date with the policeman who gave him a ticket that morning.

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Based on a true story, 'The Long Gray Line' was largely filmed on location at West Point itself. Tyrone Power stars as Marty Maher, an Irish immigrant fresh off the boat who takes a menial job as a servant at the elite West Point Academy.

West Point, however, has a way of recognising the best in a man and Maher finds himself joining the army and becoming one of the best-loved instructors ever to serve at the Academy. Along the way, he meets and romances fellow immigrant Mary O'Donnell (Maureen O'Hara). The loving couple find themselves acting as surrogate parents to generations of raw young men destined to become America's finest leaders - including a teenage Dwight D. Eisenhower (Harry Carey Jr.). It is a career that Maher will cherish for 50 years, but one that will ultimately end in heartbreak...

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One of Hollywood's greatest directors teams with a cast of incredible screen legends for this bold, sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries.

As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves.

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As long as young hearts endure, so will National Velvet and movies like it. In her starmaking role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase.

Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does.

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Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him.

One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal Killer Mannion (also Edward G. Robinson) and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

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Two cinematic legends, John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, team up to seize a small fortune in gold in this action-packed western classic.

Wayne plays Taw Jackson, a range-hardened rancher who's hell-bent on capturing the infamous War Wagon, an ironclad stagecoach protected by a small army of men and owned by a thieving cattle baron who robbed Taw of his gold and good name years before. To get even, Jackson recruits Lomax (Douglas), a brash gunslinger, and a raucous crew of misfits and readies them to pull off one of the most impossible heists of all time.

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When Bo (Don Murray), a naive rodeo rider, meets saloon performer Cherie (Marilyn Monroe), he falls head over boots in love. After he literally lassoes Cherie onto a bus headed for Montana, where he plans to marry her, Cherie escapes off the bus - smack in the middle of a snowstorm.

But if Bo can learn to rein in his emotions, he might convince Cherie to warm up to him...

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The first pairing of legendary Western director John Ford with star Jimmy Stewart, 'Two Rode Together' is a taut, suspenseful story of two lawmen who invade Comanche Indian territory to rescue the white captives of the tribe.

As in all of his seven previous Westerns, Jimmy Stewart rode his lucky horse and wore his lucky, sweat-stained Stetson. But unlike earlier Westerns where the outcome was sure to be a happy one, Two Rode Together is a dramatic and unsentimental depiction of hostages confronted by the savagery of "civilised" society. Stewart stars as a U.S. Marshal assigned to trade guns for hostages with the fearsome Comanche. Cynical and corrupt, the character was a striking departure from Stewart's usual roles as stalwart do-gooder. Paired with Richard Widmark, Stewart locates the hostages but argues against bringing them home, knowing they will be unable to readapt to settler life. But Widmark prevails, and the party's triumphant return results in tragedy.

Fugitive bank robbers Robert , William and Pedro stand at a desert grave. Caring for the newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance of escape. But they won't go back on their promise to her. They won't abandon little Robert William Pedro.

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When young David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative first tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies.

Fortunately, David strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck (Michael Caine), who is escaping from Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When the ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats.

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‘City Lights’ begins with an uproarious skewering of pomp and formality, ends with one of the most famous last shots in movie history and, from start to finish, so completely touches the heart and tickles the funny bone that in 1998 it was named one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American

Films. Talkies were well entrenched when Charles Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that’s silent except for music and sound effects. The story, involving the Tramp’s attempts to get money for an operation that will restore sight to a blind flower girl, provides a star with an ideal framework for sentiment and laughs. The tramp is variously a street sweeper, a boxer, a rich 0poseur, and a rescuer of a suicidal millionaire. His message is unspoken, but universally understood: love is blind.