Clark Gable
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"When New York con man Babe Stewart decides to lie low in a small town, he falls for a librarian seeking adventure and a way out of her predictable existence. Gambling on marriage, they head back to the city, where Stewart tries to hide his former life from his new bride"--Container.
42) China seas
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Collection includes: China Seas (1935); and Wife Vs. Secretary (1936).
43) Dancing lady
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A Broadway chorine needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director gets an idea. With the help of a legendary tapper, he shows the lady how it's done.
44) Band of angels
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Hamish Bond is a plantation owner who has a secret past of slave trading. Rau-ru is a freedom-yearning slave who has been raised as a son by Bond. Amantha Starr is a fiery belle who goes on the auction block when her part-African heritage is revealed - and is sold to Bond. She loathes Bond at first but is eventually won over.
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"Pearl Harbor is about to be bombed and crack reporter Jonny Davis has just returned from the Pacific. At his old rooming house, Davis meets fellow reporter Paula Lane, a girl he once knew who never got over him. Now, she's involved with Davis's clean-cut younger brother Kirk. But Paula wasn't meant to settle, and Jonny's passion for her is equally fervent. Hoping he'll forget her, Jonny persuades Paula to take an assignment in Indochina. But she...
46) The misfits
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Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
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"Ace newsreel cameramen Chris Hunter and Bill Dennis cover the globe, cracking wise and trying to scoop each other on the biggest stories in the hottest hot spots. But they're rivals in more than work. They both love a fearless aviatrix who may be too hot to handle"--Container.
48) Idiot's delight
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"They first meet in Omaha. They meet again years later at the Swiss border and at the edge of World War II. Smalltime hoofer Harry Van and his one-time honey Irene, now passing herself off as a Russian aristocrat and clinging to the arm of a munitions baron, strike sparks in this witty, cogent clash of love and war"--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 736
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"Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
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"This offbeat western finds escaped desperado Gable holed up in a desert ghost town, inhabited only by four beautiful young widows and their flinty gun-totin' mother-in-law. Oozing an endless supply of charm and masculine virility, Gable sets his sights on this shapely harem and the $100,000 in stolen gold hidden somewhere close by."--Container.
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It happened one night: When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story.
How green was my valley:...
53) China seas
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"Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress China Doll and his refined fiancée Sybil are aboard! Highlights include a raging typhoon, a battle with bloodthirsty Malay pirates, and China Doll's drinking contest with bluff villain Jamesy, who wants the gold and the platinum blonde"--Container....
54) 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.
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"Here comes the bride -- there goes the groom! The night before Mary Clay's wedding, her flaky fiancé Dillon elopes with someone else. Mary's friend Jeff grabs his chance to buck up the jilted bride -- and pitch some woo. Then Dillon reenters Mary's life and she must choose between the two men"--Container.
56) Honky tonk
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"Con artist Candy Johnson has been run out of town after town. Then he got wise. He went out and got a town of his own: Yellow Creek, Nevada. The title honkey tonk is the Square Deal Saloon, where Candy and poker-playing sidekick Sniper cut cards -- but not the liquor. The colorful townfolk include a Justice of the Peace who's good pals with John Barleycorn, a fiery do-gooder, a long-suffering dance hall girl and a law-unto-himself sheriff"--Container....
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In fur-trapping country, a man depends on his single-shot rifle and his courage. One of those men is Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable), who heads into Blackfoot territory with his fellow mountain men -- and with his new Blackfoot bride (María Elena Marqués) who may be the key to their safety in the dangerous land. Mitchell is a rough, buckskinned man of action and Gable shows he's more than rough enough to portray him in a brawling, breathtakingly beautiful...