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A disenchanted man heads West in search of true romance. An all-black musical from film pioneer Oscar Micheaux.
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Reiniger had already completed her full-length masterpiece THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926) when she made this animated tale of romance at the age of 32. A love story set to a Baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.
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Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
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Attending a reunion, two Australian ex-servicemen reminisce about their exploits in France during WW1. These include lying in a field hospital where they feigned deafness to extend their recuperation, stealing jars of rum from the Quartermaster and inventing an elaborate ruse to hide them and finally, the night before returning to the front relaxing in a French cafe where romance blossoms between the soldier and waitress as told through the song Mademoiselle from Armentieres.. Vaudeville performer Pat Hanna brings his well-established stage and radio "Diggers" comedy routine to the screen. One of the very first Australian "talkies"..
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Spendthrift Willy Leyland returns to the family home penniless and turns his charm on Dorothy Hope.
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A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance.He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.
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A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night.
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My Cousin From Warsaw is a 1931 adaptation of a hit play about a banker who takes the summer off from his job to stay at home, much to the chagrin of his wife and her lover.
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A departure from the historical super-productions for which he was known, The struggle was an intimate drama of an American everyman who falls victim to the debilitating affliction of alcoholism. No stranger to the destructive influence of drink, Griffith pulls no punches in dramatizing its potential horrors, especially in the terrifying climax when Jimmie, tormented by delirium tremors, attacks his young daughter (Edna Hagan) in the hovel that was once their happy home.
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This Academy Award nominated comedy follows ambitious investigative reporter Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) as he works to get the scoop on an escaped murderer (George E. Stone). Thinking this is the story of a lifetime, Hildy tracks down the killer. However, he soon finds that the accused may not be guilty after all. Hildy enlists the help of his editor (Adolphe Menjou) to set the record straight on the killer and attain the journalistic glory he craves.. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Adolphe Menjou), and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Selected as one of the Top Ten Films of 1931 by the National Board of Review. Selected for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board.. "[This] seminal newspaper drama launched a whole cycle of films and set the patterns for sagas about behind-the-scenes operations of tabloids." - Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com. "By far the highest honors in this go to Mr. Menjou, who gives as polished a performance of a gruff and unscrupulous editor as he used to give of a man about town." - Alexander Bakshy, The Nation
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A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ trains the sailor to become a boxer. After he wins the French championship, the sailor is swayed by easy money and a sultry coquette. The singer goes on a singing tour, and the sailor falls into decadence. He enters the European championship spiritually empty and in bad condition.
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In this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, follows The Hillcrests, a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as new money; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests believe themselves the moral leaders of the community, and upon learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess the Jackman family after thirty years of tenure, they enter a battle over land ownership in the Jackman's defense.
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