Joseph Calleia
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Jim Bowie is learning the courtly ways of 1825 Southern society and he's wearing only the finest suits and cravats, proving himself in business and at the gaming table. Yet despite his prowess in a world of dandies and ruffians, he may be overmatched in the ways of the heart because he's fallen for the lovely Jubalon, the magnolia belle fancied by men of means from Natchez to New Orleans.
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West portrays voluptuous Flowerbelle Lee, whose reputation is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom. Forced to leave town until she can prove she is respectable -- and married -- Flowerbelle boards a train where she meets incorrigible Guthbert J. Twillie (Fields). Believing he's quite a catch, Flowerbelle accepts Twillie's marriage proposal. The newlyweds stop in the town of Greasewood where Twillie's exaggerated tales...
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Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
6) Jungle book
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A darker, more realistic depiction of how the jungle strikes back at those who violate its code.
7) Riffraff
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A fisherman and a cannery worker fall in love, but their life thereafter is hardly idyllic.
9) Jungle book
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The story of Mowgli, a man-cub raised by wolves and schooled in the jungle who returns to civilization as a young man.
10) The jungle book
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The story of Mowgli, a little boy raised by wolves in the jungle.
12) Jungle book
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Mowgli, a young Indian boy, grew up in a wolf pack after wondering off from his father at the age of two. One day, while escaping a vicious tiger, Mowgli comes to his native village where his mother recognizes him.
13) Juárez
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"The story of three powerful men in Mexico, Benito Juárez, Napoleon III, and Emperor Maximilian, driven by political passions. And of a woman, Empress Carlota, driven to madness. All are set against a backdrop of revolution and royal ambition, with Mexico as the prize"--Container.
14) Jungle book
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Kipling's classic menagerie comes to dazzling life in this lush adaptation, featuring Sabu as Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. He gradually reacclimates himself to civilization with the help of his long-lost mother and a beautiful village girl, whose father is convinced that Mowgli is dangerous.
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"The original and grandest version of this well-known tale paints an exotic world of primitive peasant villages, dense, dark jungles, and alluring lagoons--all of which compose the surroundings of Mowgli (Sabu), a boy raised by wolves. Although Mowgli loves his world and is able to communicate with his animal companions, somewhere within himself he harbors a longing to return to his human roots and to the village of his birth. Once there, however,...
16) Branded
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Choya is a bandit who poses as the long lost son of a wealthy Texas rancher. Shamed by the kindness of his new family and attracted to his lovely "sister", Choya vows to right the wrong hes done them. He rides out in search of the real missing heir, and into an adventure as big as the western sky.
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The Monster and the Girl: A bizarre thriller about an ape with a human brain who stalks the city and chooses his victims with care.
Captive Wild Woman: After Dr. Walters transforms an ape into the exotic Paula Dupree, he then turns her loose at the circus. Paula fits in splendidly becoming an animal trainer who wields strange powers over her lions and tigers. She even falls in love with a fellow trainer though becomes overwhelmed with jealousy when...
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Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...
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Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...