Jerry Wald
1) Key Largo
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English
Description
A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
2) Dark passage
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English
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Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
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English
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They drive by night: A feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise.
Across the Pacific: Rick Leland, a tough, cynical Army officer, is given a bogus dishonorable discharge and sent undercover to hook up with Japanese sympathizers on the eve of Pearl Harbor.
Action in the North Atlantic: World War II drama about the Merchant Marine and Navy gun crews who did battle with enemy submarines and risked their lives...
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
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English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
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English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
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English
Description
Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in a man's world : be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Ethel moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to...
13) The hard way
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English
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"Helen Chernen wants to get herself and her talented kid sister Katie out of their jerkwater hometown. And if that means using people and throwing them away, that's what Helen will do."--Container.
16) Key Largo
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Language
English
Description
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster holed up there because the police are searching for him. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
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English
Description
The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen; set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king; Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian; in the days when England controlled...
18) No down payment
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Language
English
Description
The denizens of a California subdivision struggle to make ends meet while dealing with racism, alcoholism, and promiscuity.
19) In love and war
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English
Description
A film about three young marines on shore leave in San Francisco and their experiences the night before they "ship out" for the Pacific front. There is the tough sergeant, played by Jeffrey Hunter, who elects to marry the sweet girl (Hope Lange) who just happens, by some strange magic, not explained, to be carrying his child. Then there's the reckless Irish youngster (Robert Wagner) who is full of doubts and fears that he tries to cover up by bravado...
20) Peyton Place
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Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.