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Soon after L.A. police detective Mike Carter is bounced from the force, the officer who fired him is found dead. Suspect #1: Mike Carter. While the police dragnet draws tighter, Carter scrambles to clear his name, connecting the dots involving Pasadena bluebloods, the meat-packing industry and cop corruption.
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Ben Stone is a brash, newly-minted MD whose cruise toward the medical fast lane of a Beverly Hills plastic surgery practice takes a small-town detour. He ends up in Grady, South Carolina, Squash Capital of the South and home of salt-of-the-earth folks who know it's better to follow your heart than your wallet.
3) The set-up
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An over-the-hill boxer thinks he can still win a bout, despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent, not realizing his manager has taken money for a 'dive' from a tough gambler. Heightening the tension, the film takes place over the course of 72 minutes, its approximate running time.
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The story of Sergeant Rutledge, a 9th Cavalry officer on trial for rape and murder. Lt. Cantrell defends Rutledge as witnesses give testimony (relived in flashbacks) revealing the sergeant's gallantry, and the shocking truth behind the alleged crimes. Ford, who attacked racism in The Searchers, explores similar territory in this landmark Western, the power of which still rings out with uncommon force decades later.
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"The big prison break is scheduled for Saturday. But superstitious Sing Sing inmate Tommy Gordon won't be busting out: Saturday has always been his hard-luck day. Tommy doesn't know it, but despite the muscle of his mobster connections and the love of his devoted moll, he'll never see a good-luck day again"--Container.
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"Astronomer Bill Whitley is so obsorbed by his discovery of a comet that he scarcely notices the heavenly body close at hand, the one that belongs to his gorgeous wife Vicky. When an astrologer tells Vicky she'll meet her dream man in two weeks, the neglected wife greets the news with eager anticipation. Bill scoffs until a handsome air raid warden shows up just before midnight on day 14!"--Container.
9) Homecoming
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A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
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A doctor marries a glamour girl after preventing her from committing suicide. He then abandons his clinic for the poor to treat wealthy hypochondriacs in order to support his wife in the style to which she was accustomed. Although Georgi is grateful, she still has feelings for the man who betrayed her and led her to considering flinging herself into the ocean.
11) Love on the run
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"A stolen British munitions map concealed in a bouquet meant for an elusive spy leads to a freewheeling race through pre-war European hotspots for an American heiress, a news-hungry reporter, and the reporter's hapless rival, who's always just one misstep behind them. Also close behind: foreign agents with murder on their minds"--Container.
12) The man I love
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"Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family in the waning days of World War II, Petey expects a merry Christmas. Instead she gets a tangled web of mobsters, cheating wives, war-traumatized vets and the kind of love that grabs hold fast and goes wrong faster"--Container....
13) The money trap
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An underpaid police detective lives high on the hog on his wife's inheritance until her stocks stop paying dividends. Then he and his partner turn their backs on impeccable service records to become involved in robbery, murder and drug trafficking.
14) Never too late
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Harry Lambert likes being a old codger. He gets to bark commands at his wife and complain about the younger generation. Now all he needs is a new baby?!? While his middle-aged friends build nest eggs, Harry's building a nursery!
15) Nora Prentiss
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A respected doctor fakes his death, deserts his family, throws away his career and drives himself to the edge of madness, all for the love of saloon singer Nora Prentiss.
17) The terminal man
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"Computer scientist Harry Benson has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Electrodes are attached to forty terminals of his brain to counteract his violent impulses. But there's no escaping his own mind. The experiment has backfired and the seizures return -- with a vengeance"--Container.
18) Whipsaw
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A trio steals some jewels in Paris and one of them ends up falling in love with the government agent who arrests her for theft, as two thieves try and steal the jewels back that they once stole themselves.
19) Above suspicion
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Two American honeymooners in pre-war Europe are asked by British intelligence to help track down a missing agent.
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"Everyone who's anyone in Brookford can claim ancestors who were heroes of the Revolutionary War. Everyone except Sam and Susie Parker. But then the Parkers find a letter from George Washington that acknowledges the heroism oa a long-ago Parker patriarch and says essentially this to him and his heirs: IOU $7 BILLION."--Container.
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