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Love Nest
(1951) [G]
Marilyn Monroe co-stars as the "other woman" in one of her first and funniest films!
A post-war comedy about a serviceman (William Lundigan) who think's he's returning home for a blissful reunion with his wife (June Haver). Instead, he finds that she has brought a run-down apartment building,... More
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Monkey Business
(1952) [G]
An absent-minded professor stumbles across the "fountain of youth" when one of his lab chimps accidentally dumps a batch of chemicals into the water cooler. The resulting elixir revives youthful and reckless behavior in the professor, his bored wife and his co-workers. More
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Niagara
(1953) [PG]
A vacationing couple, George and Rose Loomis (Joseph Cotton and Marilyn Monroe), rent a quaint bungalow at romantic Niagara Falls. But Rose and her lover plan to murder the unsuspecting George - in the falls! A dramatic departure from her more upbeat roles, Monroe's fascinating performance as the... More
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Let's Make It Legal
(1951) [G]
The divorce of Hugh and Miriam Halsworth becomes final at midnight. Hugh wouldn't dream of calling it off, but can't abandon his rose garden. Things change that afternoon, though, when Miriam's old suitor Victor Macfarland checks into the hotel where Hugh is publicity man. With Miriam's daughter... More
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As Young As You Feel
(1951) [PG]
Skilled printer John Hodges is stunned when Acme Printing forces him into retirement at age 65. His family can barely stand having him at home, and the traditional pursuits of the aged do not appeal. Enter a charismatic impostor: Hodges disguised as Harold Cleveland, president of the parent... More
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River Of No Return
(1954) [G]
Set against the majestic beauty of the great Northwest, Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum), is a rugged widower with a questionable past who decides it's time to start a new life with his young son Mark (Tommy Ruttig). But their peaceful existence is sabotaged when Matt is robbed and pistol-whipped by... More
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Shane
(1953) [PG]
Director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the archetypal Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the timeless classics of American cinema. Based on Jack Schaefer's novel, the story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a... More
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Picnic
(1955) [PG]
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the... More
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Strangers On A Train
(1951) [M]
Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that “some people are better off dead”, and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous... More
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The Bad And The Beautiful
(1952) [PG]
A director, an actress and a writer each explain why they never want to work with producer Jonathan Shields again. Through their stories a portrait is sketched of this man who rose from making B-movies to one of Hollywood's biggest producers by using people in order to get him to the top.... More
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Lust For Life
(1956) [PG]
Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yellow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare. Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a... More
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Obsession
(1976) [M]
This intriguing mystery/thriller by Brian DePalma (Mission: Impossible, Carrie) will leave you breathless. A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When... More
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Follow The Fleet / Shall We dance
(1936) [PG]
SHALL WE DANCE:
Ballet star Peter "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. But a little white lie turns into hot gossip and everybody thinks that the celebrities are secretly married!
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The Gay Divorcee
(1934) [G]
Mistaken identity is central to the plot but the story goes out of the window when Astaire and Rogers take to the dance floor. Features the Academy Award-winning song 'The Continental' and 'Cole Porter's 'Night And Day'. More
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Flying Down To Rio
(1933) [G]
This is the first of the now famous Astaire-Rogers musicals. The story follows a dance band as they find success in Rio De Janeiro. The high point of the film is the climax, where a dancing team perform on the wings of a moving aeroplane. More
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The Marx Brothers: The Cocoanuts
(1929) [G]
The Marx Brothers' first feature film, The Cocoanuts is based on their 1925 stage hit. Miami hotel manager Hammer (Groucho Marx) struggles to keep his establishment from going down the pan. A madcap plot involving a jewel theft is the springboard for this hilarious screwball comedy. More
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
(1967) [PG]
Nominated for 10 1968 Academy Awards®, this masterpiece of modern cinema features powerhouse performances by an impressive cast of Academy Award ® Winners. A heart-warming tale of love in the face of adversity, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is made even more poignant by the fact that it was to... More
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The Great Dictator (2 Dsic Set)
(1940) [G]
Come heil or high water, Charles Chaplin is in the fight! And the result is a celebrated classic honored in 2000 as one of the American Film Institute's Top- 100 American Comedies. The U.S. was not yet in World War II when Chaplin leveled his comedy arsenal at Der Fuhrer by playing the dual roles... More
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Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(1955) [PG]
Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent temporarily staying in Hong Kong during the Korean War. While there he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian Doctor. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and families pressure them to stop the cross cultural relationship.... More
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Laura (1944)
(1944) [PG]
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment... More
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The Mark Of Zorro
(1940) [G]
This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who single-handedly saves Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California, where he finds his father, the Alcalde,... More
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The Long Hot Summer
(1958) [PG]
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and... More
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The Grapes Of Wrath
(1940) [PG]
This remarkable film version of John Steinbeck's novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director Oscar and Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the... More
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How Green Was My Valley
(1941) [PG]
Winner of five Academy Awards, this inspiring, yet heart-breaking "Hollywood milestone" (Halliwells's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is "a perfection of screen art" and "one of the finest" pictures ever made (Variety). Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his... More
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Bambi
(1942) [G]
Reflecting an age of innocence and a time of wonder, no film better captures the pure magic of Disney than BAMBI -- the world's most endearing animated tale about the beauty of nature and the miracle of life. Nominated for three Oscars, this immortal blend of classic storytelling and... More
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Sunset Boulevard
(1950) [PG]
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the... More
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3:10 To Yuma
(1957) [PG]
One of the best westerns of the 1950s and based on a story by Elmore Leonard, 3:10 To Yuma stars Glenn Ford as outlaw Ben Wade, and Felicia Farr as the bar girl who falls in love with him. After a hold-up and killing, Wade and his gang are captured. Wade's men break out of jail, and now wait for... More
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Quo Vadis (Blu-Ray)
(1951) [PG]
Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior. Though she grew up Roman, the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome.... More
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The Swan
(1956) [G]
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship... More
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Giant (2 Disc Set)
(1956) [PG]
The legendary epic that's as big as Texas. Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the... More
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