Titles A-F
43: The Richard Petty Story (1972)
Biopic of "The King" Richard Petty
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1955)
Based on Rodgers and Hart's revised 1943 version of their earlier Broadway musical hit, a 20th century Connecticut man suffers a head injury and is magically transported back to King Arthur's Camelot where he uses his modern know-how to defeat Morgan Le Fay's villainous intentions.
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A Star is Born
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, but achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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A Tale of Two Cities
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
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Abilene Town (1946)
A sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
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Africa Screams (1949)
Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
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Algiers (1938)
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
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Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966)
After Wonderland, Alice dreams of going to Paris. A mouse named Francois, the grandson of Anatole, agrees to take her there if she will tell him her favorite cheese. Along the way they share several stories.
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And Then There Were None (1945)
Ten people are invited to an isolated island, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
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Angel and the Badman (1947)
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Anna Karenina (1948)
A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
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Arizona Days (1937)
Tex and sidekick Grass join McGill's traveling show. When Price has McGill's wagons burned, Tex becomes the county tax collector to earn money. This leads to trouble as one of those owing money is Price who says he will not pay.
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As You Like It (1936)
A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother to contend with, so he joins those in the forest. Rosalind, now banished, disguises herself as a young man, with Celia as her servant, and follows Orlando into the forest. There, nature stirs love's fires in various rustics as well as in those from the court. Phebe, a shepherdess loved by Silvius, is herself smitten with the disguised Rosalind. Can true love find a way, and can brothers be reconciled and harmony restored?
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Baby Face Morgan (1942)
A young man's father, who lives in the big city, dies and his business associates bring his son to the city to take over his father's business. What the young man doesn't know is that his father was one of the city's biggest racket bosses and that he's being placed in charge of the gang's profitable shakedown operations, disguised as an insurance agency.
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Beat the Devil (1953)
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
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Behave Yourself! (1951)
When a cute Welsh terrier follows Bill Denny home, little does he know that all gangland has its eye on that dog. Who will be bumbling Bill's undoing - the gangsters, the cops, or his suspicious mother-in-law?
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Behind Green Lights (1946)
Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
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Between God the Devil and a Winchester (1968)
A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide (Juan Chasquisdo) to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
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Beyond the Law (1968)
A trio of thieves plot to steal a town's silver shipment but a turn of events makes them the town's heroes.
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Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
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Bird of Paradise (1932)
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
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Blood on the Sun (1945)
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
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Blue Steel (1934)
U.S. marshal John Carruthers observes a robbery and Sheriff Jake thinks he may be the culprit. Meanwhile the town's leading citizen is planning to rob everybody blind.
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Bluebeard (1944)
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
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Boarding House Blues (1948)
Tenants of a Harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home.
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Borderline (1950)
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.
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Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)
Based on an old radio series with a live audience. It is the story of few of the people who attend the show. Nat King Cole sings.
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Breaking the Ice (1938)
Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene and performs lively tunes to make a living.
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Broadway Limited (1941)
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt.
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Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
The government sends Buffalo Bill to find Dakota Chief White Cloud to present him a peace offering.
Calendar Girl (1947)
A songwriter finds out that his beautiful girlfriend is going to be an artist's model.
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Captain Kidd (1945)
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
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Captain Scarlet (1953)
Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged marriage to an evil count, protects many of the people from being persecuted by the Duke of Corlais, and eventually rids the country of the scourge of Corlais' power.
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Carter's Army (1970)
A racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans.
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Caryl of the Mountains (1936)
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
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Charade (1963)
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?
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Coach of the Year (1980)
Jim Brandon, a former player of the Chicago Bears, has been paralyzed during the Vietnam-war. When he returns, he tries to get a job as a football-coach, but he doesn't succeed. After a visit to the youth-prison St.Charles he thinks of becoming the football- coach there. He decides to do it, 'cause he likes the challenge. The boys, young delinquents, don't accept him, but he goes all out to be accepted.
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Condemned to Live (1935)
After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Commandos (1968)
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
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Concrete Cowboys (1979)
Two down and out cowboys wind up in Nashville and are mistaken for detectives. They are hired by the sister of a missing singer.
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Corregidor (1943)
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
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Cry of the Penguins (1971)
Womanizing biologist studies life in colony of penguins.
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.
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D.O.A. (1950)
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
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Danger Lights (1930)
The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
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Daughter of the Tong (1939)
A detective matches wits with the female leader of an Oriental crime ring.
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David and Goliath (1960)
King Saul of the Israelites is visited in Jerusalem by the Prophet Samuel who foretells him that a war with The Philistines is inevitable and the shepherd David will become king.
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Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected.
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Dementia 13 (1963)
Whilst out on a rowboat with her husband, John, Louise Haloran kills him, and casts his body overboard, telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise's main concern; she can only inherit part of his family fortune if he's still alive. The Halorans are a strange family; still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter, Kathleen who'd drowned in a pond when she was a young child. The family hold an annual ceremony of remembrance, on the anniversary of her death. But this year - with John recently deceased, someone is wielding an axe...intent on murder!
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Detour (1945)
Chance events trap hitch-hiker Al Roberts in a tightening net of film noir trouble.
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Dick Tracy (1945)
Police detective Dick Tracy must identify and apprehend a serial killer known as Splitface.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
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Dick Tracy vs Cueball (1946)
Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946)
A sexy, enticing dancer from Harlem makes things happen in a sleepy Caribbean island resort.
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Dixiana (1930)
In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras
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Door-to-Door Maniac (1961)
Originally released in 1961 as Five Minutes to Live, this low-budget crime drama was later re-released as Door-to-Door Maniac. Fred narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank robbery that goes awry. In his simple plan, he hires a hard-up hood, Johnny Cabot to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage.
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Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
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Dressed to Kill (1946)
Sherlock Holmes sets out to discover why a trio of murderous villains, including a dangerously attractive female, are desperate to obtain three unassuming and inexpensive little music boxes.
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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really know anything about tractors, and since the old-fashioned Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn't going to be an easy sell. But Botts perseveres, encouraged by Johnson's daughter.
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Esther and the King (1960)
When a modern-day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible.
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Evel Knievel (1971
Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.
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Eyes in the Night (1942)
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
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Father's Little Dividend (1951)
In this sequel to Father of the Bride (1950), newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
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Fear in the Night (1947)
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
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Fighting Caravans (1931)
A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
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Fighting Mustang (1948)
Sunset has two problems. Rustlers and the disertion of the Kid he helped make a Ranger. The rustlers reside in an area not as yet part of the state and out of the Rangers jurisdiction. When the rustlers are informed as to the location of the ballot box that will mean annexation of their territory to the state, the Kid learns of their intentions and to redeem himself, rides off to alert Sunset.
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Firehouse (1973)
Tensions arise when a previously all-white firehouse gets its first black fireman.
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Fog Island (1945)
A man invites a group of people to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them.
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Four Rode Out (1970)
A U.S. marshal sets out to bring in a Mexican bandit accused of killing his girlfriend's father, but it turns out that there's more to the story than there first appears to be.
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Fury of Achilles (1962)
In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
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Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)
Wishing to settle down, Fuzzy uses his reward money to buy a newspaper. He then raises money for the new telegraph line. When it is stolen, Barlowe incites the towns people to hang him. But his pal Billy Carson is at work to clear him.
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