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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
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Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends. A catastrophic plane crash puts an end to the sufferings of three ill-fated passengers, Binky Gay, Dr. Fortness, and Eddie Hoke. For the fourth, Trask, a lawyer, it gives him a second chance, even though he believes his wife no longer loves him. Airline officials prepare to inform the loves ones of those killed, but Trask asks to be allowed to carry the news to the families of his friends himself....
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is appointed sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a wide-open town where law officers are plugged and planted on a regular basis. He befriends hard-bitten saloon gal Jayne Mansfield, who doesn't give the gentlemanly More much chance of survival. Using his wits, and blessed with a generous amount of raw luck, Sheriff More escapes death at every turn,...
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The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one Dante the Magician uses in his act, his stage show increases in popularity.
11) The bullfighters
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When detectives Laurel and Hardy head to Mexico City to catch a petty thief, they manage to lose the girl and end up in the bullfighting ring.
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"Jack Thornton is an adventurer who travels the Yukon in search of gold. Whe he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog with the strenght of his part-wolf ancestry, Jack's luck changes. A winning $1,000 bet on Buck's stamina is only the first of the rewards that his friendship with the canine will bring. When the pair, along with Jack's friend Shorty, happen upon a woman who's lost her husband in the wild they begin their greatest adventure yet in this rousing...
13) The chairman
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When a Nobel-winning scientist receives a strange letter, he is sent to China as a spy to decode a formula that could save millions of people.
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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.
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Charlie Chan is packing to go home after solving a case in London, a lovely young woman, Pamela Gray, begs him to solve another case: her brother Paul is on death row for a crime, Pamela says, he didn't commit. With only three days to uncover the truth, Chan spends the weekend at an English country manor with all the suspects -- while they hun a fox, he hunts the real killer.
19) Full house
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John Steinbeck introduces dramatizations of five of O. Henry's short stories.
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