Rita Hayworth
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English
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Adventurer Mike O'Hara rescues beautiful Elsa Bannister from attackers in Central Park. Elsa induces Mike to sign up as a sailor on the yacht belonging to her husband, crippled millionaire criminal lawyer Arthur Bannister. In the West Indies, the cruise party is joined by Bannister's law partner, George Grisby. Disguised as a steward is private detective Sidney Broome, who has been hired by Bannister to spy on Elsa. During the voyage, a love affair...
2) The rover
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After a wide-ranging life of piracy and adventure, Peyrol comes ashore in the port of Toulon during the bloody aftermath of the French Revolution to deliver a message to the Port Commander. Wanted by authorities in nearly every port in the European world, Peyrol barely escapes arrest and flees to an isolated spot near the coast. While searching for a way to return to the open sea, he rescues a deranged girl, Arlette from a mob of revolutionary "blood-drinkers."...
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Adventurer Mike O'Hara rescues beautiful Elsa Bannister from attackers in Central Park. Elsa induces Mike to sign up as a sailor on the yacht belonging to her husband, crippled millionaire criminal lawyer Arthur Bannister. In the West Indies, the cruise party is joined by Bannister's law partner, George Grisby. Disguised as a steward is private detective Sidney Broome, who has been hired by Bannister to spy on Elsa. During the voyage, a love affair...
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Charlie Chan is hired when an archeologist disappears during the excavation of ancient art treasures in Egypt. Chan must sort out the stories of the archelogy team,deal with the crazed son of the missing scientist, find out why priceless objects are turning up in the hands of private collectors, and battle a raft of seemingly supernatural events.
10) Crooner classics
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English
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Having been caught by his wife kissing another woman, a man lies that he is an FBI agent and the kiss was part of his cover-up operation; trying to save his best friend's marriage, a man makes a pass at his mistress to prove her infidelity, but it turns out he has the wrong woman; after his partner is killed and his supervisors object to his going against the mob, a NYPD detective takes justice into his own hands; a cabaret singer romances a wealthy...
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Maria is the eldest daughter of hotel magnate, Edward Acuna. Being the oldest, she must marry before any of her sisters can and her father has the authority to choose her husband. Along comes an American dancer down on his luck. Unfortunately, Acuna can't stand him, especially when he dances in his hotel and chases his daughter around.
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Jonas (Robert Walker, Beware! The Blob), a young drifter, stops at a desolate roadside service station where Mara (Rita Hayworth, Separate Tables), the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Jonas is overwhelmed by the awkward situation, but tired and hungry, accepts Mara’s offer of room and board. Initially, he believes that Mara is simply delusional, but when Mara’s old friend and neighbor Warren (Ed Begley,...
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Andre Morestan is the owner of a bicycle shop in Paris, serving jury duty for the first time. When Natalie Roguin, a homeless girl accused of murder, is found innocent, Andre feels sorry and invites her into his home. Andre's son, Pierre, immediately becomes smitten with Natalie and starts committing small crimes to aid in the couplés engagement, causing Andre to wonder if Natalie isn't all that innocent in the first place.
15) Dante's inferno
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English
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A ruthless carnival barker, blinded by ambition, keeps a fair open - despite warnings from an inspector that the fair is unsafe - leading to a fatal disaster.
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Young Biff Grimes is the son of an Irishman who's better at blarney than at holding down a job. Determined to make something of himself, Biff takes a mail-order course in dentistry and practices his handiwork on dear old dad. In his spare time he manages to fall for Virginia Brush, "the strawberry blonde, " but unfortunately Virginia is more interested in Hugo Barnstead, an up-and-coming financier. Virginia has another girl in mind for Biff: her best...
17) Cover girl
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English
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A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
18) Separate tables
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English
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Explores the separate and interwoven dreams of a number of eccentric and lonely people in a rather gloomy, small hotel in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England. In one evening, four unhappy misfits will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.
19) Gilda
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Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mundson (George MacReady), the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's "main man." All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda (Rita Hayworth) - a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does...
20) Pal Joey
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English
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Relates the story of a nightclub entertainer who is also a heel. He romances a wealthy socialite to get her to finance his own nightclub, then falls for a chorus girl he hires for the club.