Charles Bickford
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What's she got? Kings over queens? Four aces? Straight flush? Whatever the beautiful blonde holds, watch out! An Old West caper about a Texas town's humdinger of a poker game. A 'reformed' gambler and homesteader sits down at the card table, loses his family's $4000 startup stake, and then is dealt a fantastic hand. What happens next is full deck of suspense, humor and surprises, many involving an aces-high ensemble and the newcomer's wife, who says...
6) Whirlpool
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Fox film noir volume 9
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"A young wife is caught in a spiral of deceit, blackmail and murder. Terrified that her psychiatrist husband will learn of her frailty, Ann Sutton attempts to cure herself with the help of hypnotist David Korvo. However, Ann finds herself plunging deeper and deeper into a psychological abyss as Korvo, with a diabolical plan of his own, manipulates her subconscious mind"--Container.
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Studio classic volume 8
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Until a miracle changes their minds, church and state officials persecute a simple, ingenuous peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady."
8) Mr. Lucky
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Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
Heads: He wins. Tails: You lose. Joe Adams doesn't play the odds. He makes them. Who would think Cupid would turn the odds against him? With roguish charm and dialogue spiked with Cokney rhyming slang. Cary Grant portrays Joe a wartime romantic comedy from the director of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Luck is on Joe's side when he didges...
10) Johnny Belinda
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Life is hard on MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency.
11) Fallen angel
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Fox film noir volume 14
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"June Mills and her sister Clara live a quiet life in a small coastal town until Eric Stanton, a smooth-talking con man, comes into their lives. He seems to fall hard for June, but Clara believes he's interested only in the family fortune. Meanwhile, sultry waitress Stella catches Stanton's fancy and thinks he might be her ticket out of town. The local cop knows more than he's telling about his fellow citizens and their tangled relationships, which...
12) Of mice and men
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This film adaptation of Steinbeck's novella tells the story of the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
13) Brute force
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Criterion collection volume 383
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"Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains"--Container.
14) Command decision
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General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
15) The big country
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A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
16) Four faces west
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The paths of four people cross on an innocent outlaw's flight to freedom.
17) A star is born
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Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.