Henry Fonda
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Earning a reputation as a fierce litigator and one of America's greatest criminal defense lawyers, Darrow gained fame for defending teenagers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for brazen murder of another teen, an dthe publicity-drivein Scopes Monkey Trial about the teaching of evolution in publich schools. From the play by David W. Rintels, based on Irving Stone's Clarance Darrow for the defence.
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Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogen Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Have a hot cocoa with Henry Fonda. Michael Jackson helps Oscar to understand the Spirit of Christmas.
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"Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues...
8) Warlock
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The story of a town overrun by a gang of bandits and thugs, which leads the honest folk to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to be their marshal and somehow save them from the evil gang.
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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...
10) Jesse James
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Tyrone Power stars as the daredevil bandit who galloped out of the Ozarks and into American folk history with his guns blazing. Jesse James is forced outside the law after ruthless agents for the coming transcontinental railroad kill his mother and steal his family's land. Together with his brother Frank, Jesse forms a gang of masked outlaws to strike back at the railroad company and the banks that swindle oppressed farmers.
11) The rounders
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Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
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Set in 18th Century Italy, this is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl. Beatrice 's strange and unearthly beauty masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni tragically discovers. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the effect she has on him, he unwittingly...
15) The fugitive
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The story follows a priest in Mexico pursued by a ruthless police lieutenant carrying out the dictates of an oppressive, anti-clerical government. There's another fugitive as well: an American killer on the run, and the paths of the two hunted men cross with fateful consequences. A haunting paean to the resilience of faith, The Fugitive remains a filmmaking triumph.
16) Twelve Angry Men
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Criterion collection volume 591
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A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room.
17) The tin star
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"A greenhorn sheriff who hasn't worn his badge long ... and won't live to wear it much longer unless he gest some savvy help"--Container insert.
18) "Mister Roberts"
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A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...
19) The big street
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Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
20) On Golden Pond
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While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.