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Africa screams: When babysitting, Costello falls asleep and dreams he is Jack of the fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Dink, played by Abbott, and Jack declare their intentions to rescue the princess and bring back the hen that lays the golden eggs. Instead, they are captured by a "man-eating" giant and threatened with great punishment until Jack effects a swashbuckling escape and, after his friends have followed, Jack the giant killer chops down...
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The Thirty-nine steps: An innocent Canadian who becomes involved in espionage and murder must stay a step ahead of both the police and the bad guys. The lady vanishes: On a trip from England to central Europe a charming old lady mysteriously vanishes. A young woman she had befriended tries to locate her, only to get herself caught up in a dizzying web of intrigue.
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Winds of the wasteland: Johnny Blair and Larry Adams buy a run-down stageline from Cal Drake and race him to Sacramento for a $25,00 government mail contract.
Angel and the badman: Badly wounded gunman Quirt Evans is taken in and nursed back to health by a beautiful, innocent Quaker girl and her family.
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Sam Sutter is the only one left who believes that his sister is still alive after her capture by the Indians and against the wishes of his family he embarks on a search for her. He faces insurmountable odds and the dangers of the wilderness but perserverance leads him to his sister, now married to an Indian prince but condemned to die for a petty crime. Sam now must face the toughest and possibly the last battle of his life.
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The flying deuces: Laurel and Hardy join the French Foreign Legion and have a rough time as foot soldiers.
Utopia: Laurel and Hardy inherit an island and a yacht to get them there. However, on their way, they are shipwrecked on a nameless atoll in the Pacific. Accompanied by a wide array of characters, the boys establish an island paradise.
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Royal wedding: A musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten, where a brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance. Second chorus: Two trumpet players compete for the affections of a girl and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
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Go for broke: A trimphant look at the grit and guts of the Japanese-Americans who made up the 442nd regiment during World War II. Dealing with their prejudiced commander and facing battlefront horrors with true heroism and team spirit earned them national respect.
Gung ho!: A dynamic documentary-like war movie highlighting the heroism of Colonel Even Carlson's marine raiders. Taking us from the grueling and intense training to the attack and successful...
9) High risk
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High risk: Four modern-day Robin Hoods are out to steal from the rich and give to themselves. They paracute into a steamy South American jungle, locate the secluded compound of a notorious Colombian cocaine dealer, get past a veritable army of his sentries, cooly break into his safe and remove five million dollars, and zigzag through a hail of bullets at a wild airstrip rendezvous to escape in a plane with most of the money intact without getting...
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In Great guy, Deputy Commissioner of Weights and Measures Cagney is warned to keep his fists in his pockets. In Blood in the sun, an American newspaper editor working in pre-World War II Japan tries to expose the menace of a Japanese militarist plan ("Tanaka plan") for world conquest.
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Katherine: Based on the life of Diana Oughton, daughter of a wealthy Illinois real estate owner and politician, Katherine is a rich woman that turns to a political cause to find meaning in her life.
Ginger in the morning: "A newly single executive faces a lonely future until encountering a young hitchhiker whose fresh, optimistic, and independent outlook helps him to reinvent his own."--Container.
13) The master touch
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The master touch: A career criminal is recently released from prison and is determinined to try one last job. With the help of a circus gymnast, he plans to defeat a fool-proof safe in Germany and steal a million dollars.
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Amazing adventure: Set in Depression-plagued England, Grant, who has never had to toil a moment in his wastrel existence, bets a bundle that he can earn his own way for one year and never touch the cash that has been willed to him.
Penny Serenade: Classic film about love, marriage and parenthood. Dunne and Grant are worldly sophisticates who marry and adopt a child, while also trying to run a newspaper. The couple's happiness turns into tragedy that...
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In the first feature: After fifteen years on a deserted island, the crew is finally rescued. The question is whether they are ready for the changes that have taken place in the outside world. In the second feature: A wacky comedy about a hapless wagon master and his dummy assistant who guide a giant party of five characters across the trouble-laden West.
17) The stranger
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The stranger: An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after World War II to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation.
Whistle stop: A gangster story of love and intrigue in a small railroad town. Kenny is an unemployed loser and always has bee, but his old flame Mary can't stop loving him, that...
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