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Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. **Academy Award** nominee.
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An example of Reiniger's animated music films based on opera, PAPAGENO is filled with impeccable attention to detail. Papageno, a birdcatcher from Mozart's "The Magic Flute," idles his time with his bird companions, fights an undulating snake, and finds love and familial happiness through delicate and delightful visuals that parallel the rhythm and expressivity of the music.
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Taking its title from the Nuremburg Rally of 1935, this short documentary presents the armed forces of the Third Reich as an efficient system of bodies and machines in motion. The film is a dangerous and propagandistic celebration-through dynamic visuals and careful editing-of the machines of war and the formations and gestures of the people who make them run.
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In early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman.
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An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation. Along with progress and burgeoning offspring their story continues into the next century, where the tale of a new generation is told - a tale of descendants on a Northern outback cattle station facing their own challenges and of a high flying and impressionable young heroine.
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Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all of their friends. From this possibly auspicious beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other loved ones. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Miriam Hopkins). Winner of Best Color Film at the **Venice Film Festival**.
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Falling on hard times after fast-living success, novelist Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife, Dora (Helen Vinson), leave New York City for the rundown family farm in Connecticut. After Tony sells a piece of land to farmer Mr. Novak, Dora returns to the city, but Tony remains behind, intent on writing about the Novaks -- including enchanting daughter Manya
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She, created by the same team of special-effects wizards that stunned Hollywood with the original King Kong, is a thrilling tale of adventure, immortality and lost love. This stunning new edition of She has been painstakingly restored from the original 35mm elements, and is here offered in a newly colorized version created under the direction of legendary effects master Ray Harryhausen. In addition, the film shows scenes deleted from the original cut, but which have now been restored back into the film.
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Bennett, Charles, 1899-1995,
Publication  
Criterion Collection, 1999.
Format 
DVD
ISBN 
9780780021969
UPC 
037429135228
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Stone, John, 1888-1961.
Publication  
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]
Format 
DVD
UPC 
0024543586029
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Lloyd, Frank, 1887-1960,
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Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]
Format 
DVD
ISBN 
9780790744780
UPC 
012569509023
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Temple, Shirley, 1928-2014.
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c2009.
Format 
DVD
UPC 
024543630104
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