Jack Warden
2) The Presidio
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Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don't like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.
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The cold rain is relentless. Huddled in the mountains, the GIs are soaked, weary, miserable. One might say it was hell on Earth but these men know better. They already walked through hell when they spearheaded the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Waiting next is something worse: the brutal nightmare of Anzio.
4) Blindfold
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Dr. Bartholomew Snow is a respected New York psychologist recruited to meet with scientist Arthur Vincenti who suffered from a mental breakdown, while the scientist completes a top secret military project. Due to the level of the classified work, Snow must be blindfolded when taken to Vincenti's location. When a group of enemy agents gets to the troubled scientist, Snow is the only one who can find him, and he may have to wear a blindfold.
5) September
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During late September, in Vermont, a group of people gather for a quiet week-end. But by the end of the week-end their hopes, dreams and fears are exposed, and the thin threads that hold their lives together are bared and begin to unravel. They pick up the pieces and make a new start.
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In a strife-torn Arab state, fanatical loyalists of a nationalist leader attack a police van transporting him to prison and aid his escape into the deadly Arabian Desert. Escaping with him are fellow death row prisoners Huston, a swashbuckling American who had embezzled a fortune from the Zahrain Oil Company, and Tahar, a sadistic maniac. A student who helps the fugitives flee the pursuant police in a stolen ambulance.
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If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide.
11) Mighty Aphrodite
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When a sportswriter tries to track down the mother of his adopted son, he discovers she is a prostitute and pornographic film star.
12) Being there
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Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
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A woman on the run from her husband witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by the robbers. As they ride into untamed territory trying to escape a posse led by a determined Wells Fargo agent, she comes to respect and love the leader of the robbers, a war hero with a mysterious past.
15) Used cars
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Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.
16) Heaven Can Wait
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Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
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Controversial classics volume 2
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The story of the investigation of the Watergate break-in by two Washington Post reporters that drove a U.S. president from office.
19) Donovan's reef
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A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
20) 12 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.