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61) Rain
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W. Somerset Maugham's powerful story of Sadie Thompson has perhaps the most celebrated version, vividly capturing the lives of several very different human beings, thrown together on Pago Pago during a fierce monsoon. Brilliant performances by Crawford, as the cynical prostitute, and Huston, as the minister who tries to reform her. A 'tour de force' that caused controversy when first released,
63) Cops
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A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
64) The Silent Enemy
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A documentary showing us the life of an Indian tribe, who has to decide where to head next in order to find food which became rare. The situation is hardened by the fact two of the men both want to marry the Chief's daughter…
66) College
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Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. *"Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue,...
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Early cinematic pioneers directed these seven charming, emotional silent films based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Considered a "lowbrow" medium at the time, the movie industry sought to elevate its status by immortalizing the Bard's classics and casting the greatest actors of the day. As most of these early photoplays were only one or two reels long, adapting the Bill's work proved both challenging and inspiring. Whatever these films gave...
68) Up in Arms
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Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
69) Seven Chances
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Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o’clock that evening he will inherit {dollar}7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish. *"a work of relentless hilarity and visual invention of another order, highlighted by a majestic chase scene.."...
70) The Balloonatic
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A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
71) Heritage
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An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
72) Palmy Days
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The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
74) The Oscar
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Oscar night. The crowd cheers Frankie Fane for the top award. Not far from him, sits the actor's best friend who knows that fame has been achieved by cynical manipulation of past events. Frankie deliberately leaked true stories about his disreputable life on the basis that they were falsehoods spread by his opponents. He hopes that the subsequent wave of public sympathy will sweep him to the Oscar... Nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume...
75) Safety Last
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A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him.
76) Just a Gigolo
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After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
77) Arrowsmith
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A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
78) One Week
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A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
79) Wonder Man
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After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
80) On the Yard
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In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.
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