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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...

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Simon Templar (George Sanders) is hired to protect Peter Johnson (Edmund Elton), the owner of a valuable stamp collection, after two attempts are made on his life.

But as Johnson prepares to visit Palm Springs and hand over the stamps to his daughter Elna (Wendy Barrie), he is shot in the back whilst putting the stamps in his safe. Keen to catch the murderer, The Saint decides to take Johnson's place and deliver the stamps to Palm Springs himself. Seduced by the mysterious but dangerous Margaret Forbes (Linda Hayes), The Saint decides to enlist the help of one-time criminal now turned detective Clarence 'Pearly' Gates (Paul Gilfoyle). But the murderer has followed The Saint to Palm Springs and death is only one step behind Simon Templar...

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The world will never know if the real Russian princess Anastasia met her death at the hands of red Russian rebels, or if in fact, she lived on. Based on fact, this story is set against the mystery surrounding this elusive puzzle.

Ingrid Bergman portrays the destitute woman who remarkably resembles the true Princess Anastasia. She is chosen by two Russian courtiers to masquerade as the princess in order to gain ten million pounds. Meeting scepticism initially from the family, Anastasia wins her way into the heart of the family and film lovers alike.

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Former tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) hatches a cunning plot to get rid of his socialite wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), when he discovers that she has been having an affair with author Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings).

Wendice blackmails a corrupt former schoolmate into murdering her, but the man bungles the job, and Margot, having killed her would-be assailant in self-defence, then finds herself under suspicion of premeditated murder...

Following the Civil War, an uneasy peace has descended on Abilene in Kansas, with the homesteaders and cattlemen drawn on opposite sides. When a group of homesteaders lay down roots on the cattlemen's side, tension rises still further.