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Crawford is a southern lawyer who battles his way to the governorship, with the help of his secretary, and once elected, becomes a dictator.
22) All about Eve
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....
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The 1951 Oscar winner for "Best Picture, "An American in Paris" is about the romantic adventures of a carefree young artist in post-WW II Paris.
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Presents life under the circus big top, featuring the Ringling Bros. Circus.
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A drama about life in the regular Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized...
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A Victorian gentleman and his valet win a bet that they can go around the world in only 80 days.
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British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
30) Gigi
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Wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. This title has been repackaged.
31) Ben Hur
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In this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben Hur (Heston) struggles against Roman tyranny in 1st century Palestine.
32) The apartment
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An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
33) West side story
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Based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria fall in love despite being from different backgrounds.
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The story of T. E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
35) Tom Jones
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In 18th century England, a foundling of mysterious origin is adopted by a squire and named Tom Jones. On the road to true love, Tom has many bawdy romps.
36) MY FAIR LADY DVD
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A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most beloved family film of all time! Rogers and Hammerstein's cinematic treasure stars the incomparable Julie Andrews as Maria, the warmhearted young woman who brings joy and music to Captain von Trapp and his children.
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Historical drama about the opposition of Sir Thomas More to the divorce of King Henry VIII and the events which led to More's execution.
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A black Philadelphia homicide detective reluctantly assists a white sheriff in solving a murder in 1960s North Carolina.
40) Oliver!
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A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.