Spencer Tracy
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American judge Dan Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. As graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
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"In 1620, a group of religious outcasts boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World, where they founded a tiny wilderness outpost that was the genesis for what would become the United States of America. This is their thrilling story, a tale of hardship and devotion, and of storms, hunger and disease faced and defied"--Container.
45) 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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"In the 1800's, Henry M. Stanley, a reporter for James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the New York herald, emerges from the snowbound Comanche country bearing an exclusive interview with a rampaging Indian chief. Back in New York, Bennett impresses Stanley with the importance of finding long-missing British doctor David Livingstone in Africa, the biggest news story in the world. Stanley accepts the assignment and, accompanied by Indian scout Jeff Slocum,...
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American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
52) 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.
54) Cass Timberlane
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Virginia Marshland is a vivacious young woman from the wrong side of the tracks, whose rebellious ways fascinate small town widowed judge Cass Timberlane. He's lonely enough to believe that his stuffy friends will accept her, and their marriage. But Virginia is too spirited by play the part of a dutiful society wife for long, and soon becomes tempted by a friend of Timberlane's, a man about town who seems to offer the sophistication and adventure...
58) Edward, my son
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Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama. When the boy is five, his father commits arson to pay for a vital operation. This fateful step launches a rocket-like career of business success. In the process he ruins his partner, destroys his wife's love for him and then her will to live, and finally faces jail himself for what turns out to have been an empty dream.
60) Inherit the wind
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The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs. Attorney Clarence Darrow faces off against fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan in a small Tennessee town where a teacher has been brought to trial for teaching Darwinism.