Ray Milland
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Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He tries to revive her, but hears a shout for help, then gunshots. As he goes to investigate, the woman drives away with his car. He is soon able to trace her to Greystone Manor, and he goes there to meet her. She urges him to help her get out of a desperate situation.
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Academy Award winners Grace Kelly and Ray Milland star with Robert Cummings in one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest thrillers--Dial M for Murder. When playboy tennis pro Tony Wendice (Milland--The Lost Weekend) discovers his rich wife, Margot (Kelly--Rear Window, To Catch a Thief),is having an affair with handsome American Mark Hallidy (Cummings--The Carpet baggers), he devises an ingenious plot to murder her. But when his scheme takes an unexpected,...
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Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living.
5) Variety girl
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Two hopeful young ladies come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion.
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Ace reporter Augusta "Gusto" Nash poses as the wife of imprisoned American pilot Tom Martin to save him from execution by Spanish fascists. The gesture lands her a front-page story and the praise of her boss, Mr. Phillips. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through...
10) Beau Geste
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Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion to escape a dark past. But their troubles are quickly forgotten as their courage, duty and devotion is put to the test when they are forced to fight against all odds in this acclaimed film classic. Trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the Sahara, they must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
11) The Lost weekend
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A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.
12) Copper Canyon
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In the early days after the Civil War, Johnny, a vaudeville sharpshooter, tries to outrun his past as a hero in the Confederate Army. But when some ex-Confederate miners need protection from Unionists and corrupt lawmen who run Copper Canyon, Johnny decides to fight for justice. Along the way he wins the heart of a local beauty.
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Three sisters attempt to reunite their mother and father who divorced a decade ago. The girls decide to pay their millionaire father a surprise visit in New York when they learn of his intentions to remarry. The object of his current affections is headed for disaster when the girls arrive to break up the romance and bring their father home.
15) Easy living
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"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container
16) The last tycoon
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A penetrating glimpse at big studio politics in the early days of Hollywood; a spectacular translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's notorious novel.
19) The uninvited
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Criterion collection volume 677
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A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
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A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled