Clark Gable
21) Teacher's pet
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Jim Gannon (Clark Gable) is a school-of-hard-knocks newspaperman who despises journalism schools, until he sees who's doing the teaching. Attracted to lovely professor Erica Stone (Doris Day), he masquerades as a novice in her class. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Gig Young) and Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actor (Clark Gable) and Best Supporting Actor at the **Golden Globes.** *"...a light comedy with a surprising...
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Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...
24) Betrayed
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World War II espionage drama about the Dutch underground.
25) 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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3 discs, containing the remastered Blu-Ray version of the original movie at six times higher resolution than the DVD with 8 hours of extra features. These include commentary on the making of the movie by historian Rudy Behlmer, the documentary "1939, Hollywood's Greatest Year" narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and a 1989 TV special, "The Making of a Legend" narrated by Christopher Plummer.
The CD soundtrack sampler includes eight tracks from the original...
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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...
28) San Francisco
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Blackie Norton is a gambler with a big heart, and Father Tim Mullin is Blackie's childhood friend. Nob Hill snob Jack Burley vies with Blackie for the attentions of beauty Mary Blake.
29) Call of the wild
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Hollywood legend Clark Gable stars in this soaring adaptation of the celebrated Jack London novel. Jack Thornton is a prospector who travels the Yukon in search of gold. When Jack buys Buck, a strong and loyal sled dog with part-wolf ancestry, their thrilling adventure through the Alaskan wilderness begins.
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Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set on the Army Air Forces in WWII. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.
31) To please a lady
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To please a lady: Bad boy Mike Brennan meets up with the tough columnist Regina Forbes.
Jeopardy: A suburbanite on a Mexican vacation with her husband runs into an escaped convict who kidnaps her.
33) Night flight
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As a worried mother comforts her desperately ill son in Rio de Janeiro, the child's physician, Dr. Decosta, assures her that, thanks to the new night flying schedule of the Trans-Andean European Air Mail, which is being inaugurated that evening, they will receive a life-saving serum the next day. Makes its DVD debut with a remastered feature!
34) Hold your man
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"Ruby is a cynical blonde who is not above swindling her dates. When con man Eddie Hall barges into her life, Ruby knows she's met her soul mate. She and Eddie set about a partnership in small-time crime but a routine scheme goes bad, and Ruby ends up in a reformatory. In every kind of trouble, she's sure Eddie has deserted her. But she's changed him in ways she never suspected"--Container.
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An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order...
36) Adventure
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Harry Patterson, a merchant marine with a swagger in his walk, a girl in every port and a hidden philosophical bent. While on shore leave, he goes with his buddy Mudgin to a most unlikely place ... the library! There, he meets reference expert Emily Sears. She is the picture of ladylike decorum, and she hates Harry on sight. She continues to hate him, almost until the moment she marries him! Then, Harry tells her he's shipping out again, and Emily...
37) Key to the city
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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.
39) Test pilot
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Jim Lane is a test pilot who is forced to land in Kansas where he meets Ann "Thursday" Barton and they fall in love. After some miscommunication, Jim leaves, but then comes back to marry her. Jim ends up taking a dangerous job which worries Ann, but she promises to stick by her man. Jim continues to take dangerous flights, until one that has disastrous consequences.
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"A compelling and complex drama of jealousy, grief, madness, lust and love. A woman haunted by the death of her sweetheart and by her father's unnatural obsession marries a man she doesn't love and has a child through an adulterous liaison with a handsome doctor, a secret they keep throughout their lives"--Container.