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1) Carny
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A carnival's clown and pitchman both fall in love with an adolescent run-away.
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"Barry Granville and Pinky Blair, two would-be theatrical producers, get financing for their new musical on the condition that they hire Jane Clarke, a popular British actress, to star in it. In New York City, J. Van Courtland, a theatrical agent, learns of the project and rushes to meet the ship he believes Jane is taking to America. He mistakes an American girl, also named Jane Clarke, for the English actress and signs her to a contract. Jane, a...
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When John Meredith meets amateur pianist Nadya Stepanova at a Moscow concert in 1941, the America conductor follows her to her rural town and marries her. Leaving her husband's tour when Germany begins its invasion, Nadya returns to her father's farm and fights against the Nazis. With the region under martial law and safe travel nonexistent, Meredith begins a perilous trek to reunite with his wife, unaware that her village may have already been destroyed....
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Opposites attract in this slapstick comedy romance starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young in their first and final pairing since The Call of the Wild (1935). Key to the City also marked the final screen appearance of Frank Morgan, whose nearly 100-picture career included six with Gable as well as The Wizard of Oz, his best-known film.
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A neighborhood is disturbed when truck driver Rosario is killed by the police. One day, his wife learns Rosario was having an affair; and a new carefree, handsome Italian truck driver enters her life. Winner of the Best Actress (Anna Magnani), Best Cinematography and the Best Art Direction Awards at the **Academy Awards.** Winner of Best Actress Award at the **Golden Globes** and the **BAFTA Awards.** *"That fine Italian actress Anna Magnani...has...
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"Miss Moffat [is] the spinster teacher fighting to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village. The story, based on Emlyn Williams' autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans. She molds him into a legitimate candidate for an Oxford scholarship in the remarkably short span of two years. Despite the disaster of Morgan's seduction by trouble-making Bessie, the...
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"Single, attractive Isabelle ("Izzy") Grossman has a rent-controlled uptown apartment and a blooming career in publishing. She also has Bubbie, a tradition-minded grandmother who's hired a matchmaker to find a husband for Izzy. There's already a prospect: the corner pickle seller?!?"--Container.
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Wings Over America is the monumental live album by Paul McCartney and Wings, originally released in December of 1976. Recorded throughout the band's Wings Over America U.S. tour dates earlier that spring, the album reached number one in the U.S. in early 1977. Containing almost two full hours of music, Wings Over America offers stunning renditions of Maybe I'm Amazed; Live and Let Die; My Love; and Let 'Em In.
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A witch hunt has begun. Not one of roving mobs prowling by torchlight. The hunters are politicians sitting before clicking cameras in HUAC hearing rooms. Hollywood is on trial. And David Merrill is asked to "name names." Robert De Niro and Annette Bening star in GUILTY BY SUSPICION, a film of "resounding emotional impact" (Houston Post). Producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky, Raging Bull), in his screenwriting/directing debut, recreates Hollywood's "Blacklist...
17) Lost in America
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Stalled in his company's pecking order, ad man David Howard failed to land the Senior VP slot he wanted. He quits, convinces wife Linda to do the same, sells their house and stocks and buys a Winnebago to roam the USA. Though they feel they're Easy Riders, they're actually Born to Be Mild. With their $145,000 nest egg tucked reassuringly within reach, they make their first stop: Las Vegas. Goodbye, nest egg. Greetings, hilarity.
18) McCartney
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Debut album from Paul McCartney. Apart from wife Linda's vocal contributions, McCartney performed the entire album by himself, playing every instrument. Including the monumental track Maybe I'm Amazed, the album held the number one position for three weeks on the US Billboard 200 chart and peaked at number two in Britain.
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Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmo, a grade-A ding-dong – just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom… and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim Robbins) has his own spiffy little plan. And if a snoopy reporter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) doesn’t put the kibosh on the Hudsucker flimflam and finagling big cheese Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) doesn’t...
20) Royal Wedding
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Royal wedding: A musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance.
Pied Piper of Hamelin: The famous children's fairy tale is retold with warmth and understanding as the mysterious ratcatcher comes to the town of Hamelin and promises to rid the town of its unwelcome guests for a price.
Wild guitar: Bud Eagle leaves rural South Dakota on his motor scooter...
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