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New York's Harlem slum, Hell's Kitchen, is no place for a stranger. It's a desperate, decaying ghetto throbbing with gangland tension, where restless teenage rebels are willing to risk their life to protect their turf.

But when members of the notorious Thunderbird gang venture into an opposing neighbourhood and stab to death a Puerto Rican boy, Assistant District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) is determined to uncover the real motivation behind such a cold blooded act.

In this outrageous screwball comedy, a voluptuous secretary and her handsome boss can't stop themselves from engaging in a little monkey business after a chimpanzee accidentally concocts, then dumps, an anti-ageing formula into the office water cooler.

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Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama.

Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen". 'The Duke' gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight.

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Frontiersman Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) is travelling up the wide Missouri river with his best friend Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin) to trade with the Black Feet Indians.

Boone's uncle Zeb (Arthur Hunnicutt) is travelling with them; he's returning kidnapped Black Foot princess Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt) to her people. It's a perilous journey, pitting them against the brutal elements and rival traders who want them dead and just when their troubles couldn't get even worse - Jim realises he's in love with Teal Eye.

An army officer (Anton Walbrook) has become obsessed with playing cards. Convinced that an elderly countess (Dame Edith Evans) possesses the secret of winning every game, the young officer's obsession leads him into a satanic world of madness, mayhem and murder where death is only the beginning.

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Paris, August 1944. With the allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin.

But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction - loosened rails, shattered tracks and head-on collisions - in an impassioned, suspense-filled quest for justice, retribution and revenge.

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Amateur football team The Trojans face their toughest challenge: a charity match against Arsenal in front of a capacity crowd. During the game their star player collapses and dies of poison.

Inspector Slade (Leslie Banks) of Scotland Yard is assigned to catch the murderer - and he has only three days to solve the case before it interferes with his theatre performance!

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Three classic films starring and directing Buster Keaton.

Our Hospitality (1923)

Keaton is luckless William McKay, who must journey down South to view his lacklustre inheritance, only to be seduced along the way by one of the Canfields, Virginia, who lures him to her family's house so that the men of the clan can shoot him down. But William knows that the Canfield men won't kill him as long as he's in their house, so he endeavours to stay put there, against all obstacles.
Go West (1925)
Friendless abandons city life to ride the rails to an Arizona ranch, where his ineptitude at almost everything only makes his nickname even more accurate. But when his one beloved companion, a cow named Brown Eyes, seems to be headed to a slaughterhouse fate, Friendless intervenes, and the resulting cattle stampede through the streets of Los Angeles is one of Keaton's most understandably famous and acclaimed sequences.
College (1927)
Keaton is bookworm Ronald; whose high school girl Mary ditches him for someone with the athletic prowess that Ronald lacks. Determined to win her back, Ronald enters college with an eye on sports, but two left feet.

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It happens with a startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d' etat can't happen here. Or can it? A classic of suspense directed by John Frankenheimer and written for the screen by Rod Sterling , 'Seven Days in May' tautly explores that possibility.

At odds are a popular general and joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman (Burt Lancaster) and an unpopular President (Fredric March) with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel (Kirk Douglas) uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a takeover? The clock is ticking.

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A British adaptation of one of post-war Austria's most significant films, 'The Angel with the Trumpet' is the powerful, panoramic story of a family's tribulations from the last decades of the nineteenth century through to the dark days of Nazi rule.

When Francis Alt (Basil Sydney), the head of the famous family of Viennese piano makers, decides to marry socialite Henrietta Stein (Eileen Herlie), his family object due to her Jewish heritage and known dalliance with the Crown Prince Rudolph (Norman Wooland). When the marriage goes ahead despite their objections the Prince commits suicide, leaving Henrietta a note…

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This is the unbelievable and shocking true story about espionage, war, secret intelligence and a young woman who had her life ripped out from under her. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, a young Jewish nurse enlisted by the French Secret Service and sent to Germany.

After 13 failed attempts, she finally manages to cross the border. To stay undercover, she assimilates with the enemy and infiltrates German troop movements to defeat the Nazis. This is her extraordinary story.

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Woody Allen stars as Howard Prince, a small-time restaurant cashier, part-time bookie and full-time loser who is induced by a writer-friend to "front" for the submission of his TV scripts when he is blacklisted as an alleged subversive. Howard is soon "fronting" for other writers.

He becomes a celebrity and is lionized as television's most brilliant and prolific young author. But when popular TV comic Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel) is blacklisted and his career is threatened, he agrees to keep Howard under surveillance. Howard is then summoned to appear before an investigative committee and his stand before them brings about an unexpected dramatic conclusion.

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Alan Ladd plays the titular gunslinger, the archetypal "man alone" who wanders into town and shortly afterward becomes embroiled in a conflict between a group of Wyoming homesteaders and the nefarious cattle baron who has designs to wrest away their land.

As the conflict escalates, and a romance develops between Shane and homesteader Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur, in her last screen role), a who's-who of studio system character talent revolves through the production - Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Elisha Cook, Jr. - before one of cinema's most famous, unforgettable endings.

What's a Yuppie ghost couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to do when their quaint New England home is overrun by trendy New Yorkers? Hire a freelance "bio-exorcist" to spook the intruders, of course.

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Taking shelter from an air raid, lead singer Rosalind Bruce (Rita Hayworth) meets dashing RAF Squadron Leader Paul Lundy (Lee Bowman). He's most definitely a ladies man - and Rosalind is determined not be just another of his conquests.

But love during wartime is full of uncertainties - and heartbreak and tragedy can lie just around the corner...