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Considered one of the most important films in the history of film, as well as possibly Eisenstein's greatest work, Battleship Potemkin brought Eisenstein's theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase; his emphasis on montage, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the mass instead of the individual as the protagonist. »
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Bride of the Gorilla is a 1951 B-movie film directed by Curt Siodmak and starring Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr. and Barbara Payton. Jungle action and voodoo terror in the African tropics, as doctor Raymond Burr marries beautiful Barbara Payton, only to find himself the victim of a man-beast's curse. »
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To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man. »
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The Corpse Vanishes is one of the more deliciously outrageous horror exercises of the 1940s. Bela Lugosi, as hammy as ever, stars as Dr. Lorenz, a European horticulturist who wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. »
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Cab Calloway appears with Betty Boop in Minnie the Moocher, Betty's 17th cartoon appearance. Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song. This is justifiably one of the most famous cartoons ever made. »
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The Iron Mask is a 1929 silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, pere, which is itself based on the French legend of The Man in the Iron Mask. »
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After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic (Mickey Rooney) is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which rapidly spiral out of his control. »
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Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a "grassroots" political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman, became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story. »
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Jimmy Stewart plays a young lawyer John Mason. Who marries Jane Mason (Carole Lombard) after knowing her for just one day. Made For Each Other combines laughter with tears in what is a classic, heartwarming example of true family entertainment. »
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin and his co-star Marie Dressler major stars. Chaplin plays a con artist (not the Tramp) who talks Tillie, an innocent country lass, into taking her father's savings and running off to the city with him. »
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A famous shocker based on the true story of the Marie Celeste, a ship found off the coast of Africa in 1872 with her sails set, but not a soul on board. During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one. Starring the great Bela Lugosi (best known for his performances as Dracula) as the religious seafarer Anton Lorenzen. »
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Great mystery-adventure stars Bela Lugosi as a malevolent mandarin with an arcane scheme for conquest and Wallace Ford as the hard-nosed reporter who's out to stop him. Mysterious Mr. Wong is a bad-movie buff's delight. »
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio programmer. This time around, Tracy's nemesis is bald headed jewel thief Cueball, played with blunt menace by Dick Wessel. »
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Produced in 1945 for the War Finance division of the US Treasury Department with the objective of spurring the sale of American War Bonds, My Japan is a curious piece of anti-Japanese propaganda. The film is presented as being a Japanese person's view of the war and of American citizens in general. »
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry his longtime fiancée Phyllis when she is kidnapped by Mikhail Valdin and his sister Erena. It seems Drummond arrested Erena's husband, and now she's determined to make him pay. The kidnappers are wanted for the murder of an American millionaire, and Scotland Yard Inspector Neilson (John Barrymore) warns Bulldog that he may be next. »
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Dick Tracy is a comic strip detective and a popular character in American pop culture. The character of Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains. Dick Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931 for a newspaper comic strip also entitled Dick Tracy. »
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The time is the 1930s, the place, Tokyo, Japan. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is a Judo-loving American newspaper editor on a crusade to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even when the truth is the last thing is host country wants the world to read. When he publishes a world-exlcusive revealing Japan's secret plans for world domination all hell breaks loose and Condon must fight for his life, and the life of the woman (Sylvia Sidney) he's just fallen in love with. »
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Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, director John Ford was actually injured during filming. Ford weaves voiceover and music into the real footage of the battle, shaping the material to show the conflict as he saw it, and moulding these elements into a narrative »
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Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps in the middle east the hard way. This is one of 26 Private SNAFU cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps during WWII to educate and boost the morale the troops. Unfortunatly these humours lessons on avoiding booby traps would appear to just as relevent to US forces today in Iraq - only we know them as IED's. »
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens ("A Symphony of Horror" in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. He had wanted to film a version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but his studio was unable to obtain the rights to the story. Murnau decided to film his own version and made only slight changes to the story. »
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The third film in a series of Lone Star westerns made by John Wayne between 1933-35 for producer Paul Malvern, The Lucky Texan features Wayne as Jerry Mason, a young college graduate who, along with old family friend Jake Benson (George Hayes), who locate a secret gold field and the efforts of baddies Lloyd Whitlock and Yakima Canutt to cheat them out of it. »
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the New York Department of Weights and Measures. However, he soon discovers that the organization is full of corruption. »
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This 1935 version, directed by Henry Edwards (who would go on to direct Boris Karloff in Juggernaut), plays it straight. This film is notable for a particularly enjoyable performance by Sir Seymour Hicks as Scrooge, who also happened to have played the role in a 1913 Leedham Bantock-directed silent version. »
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As befits a Corman horror-comedy from the turn of the 60’s, the script for Creature from the Haunted Sea is absolute mayhem. The film manages to parody American gangsters, spy movies, Cuban exiles and revolutionaries and monster movies laced with enough satire to make the entire mix very enjoyable. The plot centers on a gang of criminals who offer to transport a band of exiles from communist Cuba - and a strong box of the treasury, which they intends to keep for themselves. »
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One of the first and most famous examples of German Expressionism, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari achieves most of its effectiveness and importance from brilliant mise-en-scene, primarily in the area of set design. Its lasting ability to interest contemporary viewers makes it easy to understand the film’s wide influence, extending beyond Expressionism directly to the horror genre and to films depicting a darker side of the psyche. »
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A Cold War public information film meant to put the fear of God into the citizens of the USA. Watching this, you can almost begin to comprehend the hysteria that surrounded the many false alarms and you begin to wonder if films like this - presumably made with all of the best intentions - aren't actually responsible for warping the minds of a generation of Americans. »
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Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. »
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Adpted from Joesph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent - which was supposedly losely based on a true story - Hitchcock ditches a lot of what made Conrad's novel so daring. But the master of suspense still manages to produce something that ratchets up the tension and has you drinfting ever closer to the edge of your seat. »
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From the opening scene - featuring John Wayne strumming a guitar and serendading the birds - you'll quickly work out that this is not the sort of John wayen western you've come to expect after a diet of The Searchers and True Grit. But it was in these and other films from the early days of Hollywood that Wayne learned his craft and became the Duke. »
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Considered the archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Reefer Madness has become a cult classic because of its dated (1937) outlook on marijuana use and is the height of camp entertainment. »
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Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 black and white drama film based on the 1897 French play by Edmond Rostand and poet Brian Hookers 1923 translation of it to blank verse. It was produced by Stanley Kramer, directed by Michael Gordon and starred José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac, Mala Powers as Roxane, and William Prince as Christian de Neuvillette. It was the first film version of Rostand's play in English. Ferrer won an Academy Award for Best Actor, while Powers was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. »
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An Ed Wood classic starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist trying to use the power of the atom to make mild-mannered mortals into beings with super-human strength. The acting may be wooden, the script woeful and the special effects laugh-inducing, but that's what makes films like this such fun to watch. »
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Love him or loathe him, there's no dismissing the importance of Chaplin's cinematic legacy. All the usual knockabout slapstick - including a bit of cross-dressing - abound in this early outing for the little tramp. A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majectic Studio. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film. He played a woman in two Keystone films: The Masquerader and A Busy Day. »
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A night on the tiles ends awkwardly for Charlie Chaplin's little tramp in this silent classic created for Mutual Films. Except for a brief appearance from a Chaplin stalwart (Albert Austin as a taxi-cab driver) this is a one-hander from Chaplin as he bumbles and fumbles his way to bed. »
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The little tramp's on the lam from the rozzers, having escaped from Sing-Sing. Saving Edna Purviance from doing an Ophelia, Chaplin's cover is endangered by her jealous suitor, who somehow sees Chaplin as a potential love rival. »
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Apparently Hollywood's first comedy with a sad ending, The Bank sees Chaplin's little tramp as a down-at-heel janitor in a bank indulging in some unrequited love and a bit of Walter Mitty-ish day-dreaming. »
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Roy and Gabby are Confederate soldiers stationed in Missouri during the Civil War who oppose a guerilla leader. Set in 1861 the 'Arizona Kid' must choose between being an honest soldier and his friends who have started looting and killing. »
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This is one of Keaton's great two-reeler shorts, made just before his classic Cops and his subsequent launch into feature films. Keaton was at the peak of his comic powers here and the inventiveness never stops through all the surprising twists and turns. It all culminates in a plunge from a seventy-five-foot suspension bridge. »
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Yet another classic from the King of B-movie directors - Roger Corman. In making this film, Corman was clearly influenced by Kurt Neumann's 1958 film The Fly. The Wasp Woman has the head and hands of a wasp but the body of a woman -- ironically, exactly the opposite of the creature shown in the film's poster. »
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M is considered to be Fritz Langs masterpiece work and is certainly the peak of German Expressionism. M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder (M - A Town Is Looking For A Murderer) is a disturbing story of a child murderer who is hunted down and brought to trial by Berlin's criminal underworld. »
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This is a typical sex exploitation film from cult director Dwain Esper, along the lines of his other classic - Reefer Madness, supposedly to deal with venereal diseases. Wild parties, lesbianism and sex out of wedlock and the dangers of the casting couch are some of the forms of "madness" portrayed. The "educational" aspect of the film allowed it to portray a taboo subject which was otherwise forbidden by the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. »
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Things to Come is a 1936 British Science-Fiction film written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come. The film is notable for predicting World War II and the devastation of strategic bombing on civilian populations. Christopher Frayling of the British Film Institute calls Things to Come "a landmark in cinematic design." »
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An accountant on vacation in San Francisco gets a dose of lethal, slow-acting poison. He then begins a desperate search for the individual responsible for his impending demise. D.O.A. is considered a classic of the film noir genre and in 2004 The Library of Congress added the film to its National Film Registry. »
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The Ghost Walks, is a mystery-horror tale that is just short of being a good burlesque. A playwright lures a producer to an eerie mansion in the wilds and, without letting him in on the secret, proceeds to stage the murder play he is trying to sell. A homicidal maniac gets into the house and literally steals the show. »
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Disorder in the Court is the 15th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly). Those who aren't familiar with their early work will find some interesting routines here which are close to how their early vaudeville performance may have been like on stage. »
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Scarlet Street is an early classic non-detective noir directed by Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson plays a man, haunted by the murder of an amoral femme fatale that he pinned on her boyfriend, who is executed for the crime. Scarlet Street is actually a remake. Its taken from a French novel, La Chienne (The Bitch) that was first filmed by Jean Renoir in 1931. »
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She escaped death. Now it wants her back! Carnival of Souls is a cult horror film released in 1962. Produced and directed by Herk Harvey for an estimated $33,000, the movie never gained widespread public attention when it was originally released (It was part of a double-feature drive-in special with "The Devil's Mistress"), but has become a well know cult film. »
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The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are tailors and are heavily in debt. Could a big reward for the capture of a fugitive bank robber answer their financial prayers? Much footage from this comedy -- and the whole substance of its plot -- was recycled for the Stooges 1953 picture, Rip, Sew and Stitch. »
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His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair and is a park farce on the same order as many of his earlier shorts. His New Profession was Chaplins 25th film for Keystone. »
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"Love, Locomotives and Laughs". The General is generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies. The film is based on a real incident during the American Civil War when northern soldiers hijacked a confederate train. Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan Buster Keaton comedy. »
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The great Edward R. Murrow narrates this film for the U.S. Office of Civil Defense that seeks to educate its audience about the destructive power of nuclear weapons, to explain the associate phenomenon of nuclear radiation, and to assure the public that they will be safe as long as they follow proper procedures. Very much a time capsule of the attitudes of this era. »
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Director John Huston and actor Humphrey Bogart, who had previously collaborated on classics ranging from The Maltese Falcon to The African Queen, teamed up for the last time on Beat the Devil, the least known and most unfairly underrated of their five joint efforts. Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. »
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The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period. The Film was the first in a series of increasingly confident pictures which would make his name worldwide, and lead ultimately to his departure for Hollywood in 1939. »
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City of the Dead is a 1960 film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall. It was released in the United States under the title Horror Hotel. »
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The Killers from Space is a very low-budget sci-fi where a group of aliens, with ping-pong balls for eyes, raise an atomic scientist (played by Peter Graves) from the dead after a plane crash in order to have him spy on Earth and carry out acts of sabotage for them. Killers from Space often, justifiably, appears on lists of the worst movies of all time. »
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"With these Zombie Eyes he renders her powerless, With this Zombie grip he makes her perform his every desire!!!" White Zombie was released in 1932, and starred Bela Lugosi, who was a huge box office hit from 1931 with Dracula, Lugosi plays the evil Murder Legendre, who can control people with a little white powder, a hand clench, and a very nasty glare. »
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Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike, a convicted Nazi war criminal, and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in. »
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Based on the short story "Dancing Men" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Victorian Sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are transplanted to WWII europe and help protect a scientist and his invention from the Nazis. »
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The Last Woman on Earth is a 1960 American science-fiction B-movie produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. A gangster and lawyer fight to decide who'll get to repopulate the planet with the titular female. »
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The Goat is a 1921 short comedy film written, directed by and starring comedian Buster Keaton. Buster is mistaken for an escaped criminal, Dead Shot Dan, leading to people that aren't chasing him, fleeing from him. Keatons' work as a performer and director is widely regarded to be some of the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. »
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The notorious pirate played by Charles Laughton tricks King William III into letting him escort treasure-laden merchant ships to India. Ostensibly hired to fend off enemy vessels, Kidd intends to steal the ship's cargo for himself with the aid of his swarthy lieutenants William Moore (Gilbert Roland) and Orange Povy (John Carradine). »
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Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, animations, and a self-reflexive storyline. »
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A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate. »
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John Middleton (John Wayne) is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines. »
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It's post-war America and the president of the United States of America is visiting a small town called, Suddenly. Frank Sinatra plays ruthless assassin John Baron, who, with his henchmen, pretend to be members of the FBI ordered to protect the president. »
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Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, DArnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan. »
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The Stooges portray waiters at a restaurant in the Middle East who obtain a map leading them to the prized Rootin Tootin Diamond. (The map features several comical location names, such as Great Mitten, the Bay of Rum, I-ran, He-ran, and She-ran.) In the land of Schmow, the trio succeeds in obtaining the jewel from Omagosh the Emir of Schmow, via their chicanery and hijinks, aided in part by using Santa Claus costumes. »
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A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Charlie does take her away in a jitney, a popular name for the Model T Ford in the United States between 1914 and 1916. »
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Charlie Chaplins Burlesque on Carmen was Chaplins 13th film for Essanay Films. It was released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Dain Hosiery and Edna Purviance played Carmen. Carmen was very popular at this time and one of the reasons Chaplin decided to create his own comedy version on the opera. »
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Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film by Charlie Chaplin. It takes place on a street similar to where Chaplin himself was born, a despairing world beset by gangs, domestic violence, alcoholics and a tenuous authority represented by the church and police. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, that steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace. »
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Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set he is told to help the carpenter When one of the actors on a movie set doesnt show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie. »
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In the Park was Charlie Chaplin's fourth film released in 1915 by Essanay Films. It was his third film while at the Niles Essanay Studio. It was one of several films Charlie Chaplin created in a park setting.A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. »
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Laurel and Hardy are in Paris. Ollie is in love with a woman. When he find out that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is prevented and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Eventually, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and escape the firing squad by stealing a plane. »
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The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 black comedy film directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of Seymour Krelboyne, an inadequate young florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The film is famous for reputedly having been shot in two days. »
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Atom Age Vampire is a much less stylish variant on Franjus classic Les Yeux Sans Visage. The 1963 Italian horror/science fiction film is directed by Anton Giulio Majano and stars Alberto Lupo. When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with the glands of a murdered woman. »
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Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. The film is based on two stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Rashomon provides the setting, while In a Grove provides the characters and plot. Rashomon can be said to have introduced Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to Western audiences, and is considered one of his masterpieces. »
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The city of Kleinschloss is infected with a dark scourge from the past. A Legion of bloodsucking creatures who can assume human form have returned to prey upon the unsuspecting citizens. Detective Karl Brettschneider begins investigating numerous gory deaths at the request of the burgomaster. Despite the obvious evidence, he refuses to accept the existence of vampiric human bats, but soon their existence proves all too real. »
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His Girl Friday is a 1940 hilarious screwball romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. »
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Bad acting, a bad script and some truly bad special effects - the alien is just a lobster, for God's sake, when was the last time you were scared of a lobster? - somehow synergise to produce a B-movie that's so bad, it's campily brilliant. This is the sort of movie that would have made Ed Wood jealous. »
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Crawling horror unleashed by the depths of hell to kill and conquer. Attack of the Giant Leeches is a low budget 1959 science fiction film from American International Pictures. In the Florida Everglades, a colony of larger than human size, intelligent leeches is living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them of blood. »
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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Mauriers novel Jamaica Inn of the same name and starred Charles Laughton and Maureen O Hara. It is an eerie period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. Jamaica Inn is home to a gang of smugglers, led by the innkeeper Joss (Leslie Banks). The smugglers conceal coastal beacons to cause ships to run aground, then loot the wrecks and kill the surviving sailors. »
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a western special from Hopalong Cassidy producer Harry Pop Sherman. Set during the Reconstruction period, the film stars Richard Dix and Preston S. Foster as Dan Taylor and Paxton Bryce, two gallant Civil War heroes join forces to build a cattle empire in Texas, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other. »
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The Brain That Wouldnt Die, also known as The Head That Wouldnt Die, is a 1962 science-fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. A scientist develops a means to keep human body parts alive. When he unexpectedly must use his discovery on someone close to him, events do not go as planned. »
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A wealthy man offers a million dollars to whoever captures Adolf Hitler dead or alive. A group of gangsters take him up on this offer and after hijacking a Canadian Air Force plane are dropped into Germany. Their delusions about Hitler being just another cheap crook are shattered when they discover that knocking off Hitler wouldn't necessarily bring about the end of the war and they must decide what's more important: lining their pocketbooks or letting the military do their job. »
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Wanda Hendrix is a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien, Johnny Sands and Steve Brodie spend most of their time chasing Wanda about, but she manages to keep them at arms' length. You see, she only has eyes for her boyfriend Dick Erdman, who is on the lam from vengeful millionaire Rudy Vallee. But it's O'Brien who ends up with Wanda, after nearly getting pounded into hamburger in the boxing ring as a means of proving his love. »
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While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve (Douglas Fairbanks) can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various contraptions constructed from local materials. »
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The 39 Steps is a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. The film stars Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. There have been three major film versions of the book; Hitchcock's original has been the most acclaimed, and remains so today: In 1999 it came 4th in a BFI poll of British films, while in 2004 Total Film named it the 21st greatest British movie of all time. »
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Two Women (Original title La Ciociara, literally translated as The Woman from Ciociaria) is a 1960 Academy Award-winning Italian language film which tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi and was directed by Vittorio De Sica. »
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Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house, but Edna, the house's owner, catches them and calls the police. Charlie, however, manages to charm his way out of trouble .... at least for the moment. Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los Angeles. »
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The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Company made in 1916. Chaplin's Little Tramp has the misfortune of walking into a department store right when a lookalike is robbing the safe of the store manager. It was noted for the first 'running staircase' used in films. Edna Purviance played a minor role as a secretary to the store manager, played by Eric Campbell. »
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The Nazis Strike (1943) was the second film of Frank Capras Why We Fight propaganda film series. The film introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and with the Nazis as their latest incarnation. Hitlers war machine sweeps into Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. A disturbing look at the relentless enslavement of a continent by the forces of fascism. »
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Divide and Conquer (1943) was the third film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. The film begins immediately after the fall of Poland and dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940. The film covers the Nazi capture of Denmark and Norway, steps necessary to mount a future attack on Britain, then describes in detail Hitler's strategy as he conquers Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. »
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Prelude to War (1942) was the first film of Frank Capra's the Why We Fight propaganda film series and won the 1942 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. World War II is introduced in black and white terms, with Henry Wallace's quote "This is a fight between a free world and a slave world" pictorialized with the "free world" of the Allies as a brightly-illuminated planet and the "slave world" of the Axis Powers as a planet deep in shadow. »
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The Battle of Russia (1943) was the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It is the longest film of the series, beginning with an overview of previous failed attempts to conquer Russia: by the Teutonic Knights in 1212 (footage from Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky is used here), by Charles XII of Sweden in 1704, by Napoleon I in 1812 and by Imperial Germany in World War I. »
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In the sixth and final installment of the Mr. Wong series, Keye Luke assumes Boris Karloff's former role as Detective James Lee Wong. When the only man who understands the mystery behind the ancient Chinese secret of "Eternal Fire" is murdered, the San Francisco police must join forces with amateur detective Jimmy Wong to track down the killer and avert disaster. »
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The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film directed by Rupert Julian adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. »
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300,000 Volts of Horror! indestructible Man tells the story of Butcher Benton (Lon Chaney), a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who dies in the gas chamber and is inadvertently revived by a lone-wolf cancer researcher who claims his body from the prison and subjects it to further massive jolts of electricity. »
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Kansas City Confidential is a compact, gritty 1952 film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play the film's heavies. Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is arrested and beaten up by the local police. »
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The Outlaw is a 1943 western, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell. The film is notable as Russell's breakthrough role, turning the young actress into a sex symbol and a Hollywood icon. The film revolves around a fictional relationship between Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid and their feud over a woman called Rio. »
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The Killer Shrews is a 1959 science-fiction movie directed by Ray Kellogg. Boat Captain Thorne Sherman and his sidekick, Rook Griswold arrive to deliver supplies to a remote and isolated island, inhabited by a scientist, his daughter and his aides. Sherman soon learns that the scientist and company have created out-of-control, flesh-eating, monstrous giant shrews. A hurricane hits and all the stranded humans become either meals for or meal-targets for the shrews. »
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The Battle of China (1944) was the sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It describes the modern history of China, with the founding of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen, and leads on to the Japanese invasion. The invasion of China is explained in terms of the four-step plan for Japanese conquest, mentioned in the Tanaka Memorial. »
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War Comes to America was the seventh and final film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series. The early part of the film is an idealized version of American history which includes mention of the first settlements, the ethnic diversity of America and the American Revolutionary War, while omitting the American Civil War. »
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In 'A Night At The Show' Chaplin played two roles: one as Mr. Pest and one as Mr. Rowdy. The film was created from Chaplin's stage work from a play called 'A Night at an English Music Hall' with the Karno Company from London. Chaplin performed this play during his U.S. tours with Karno and decided to bring some of this play to his film work. »
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Few films in the history of cinema deserve renewed attention as much as this little known masterpiece which the philosopher and film-theorist Gilles Deleuze has called "the greatest Irish film." Indeed its importance is magnified by the very fact that it is one of the few Irish films of any note which attempts to explore a uniquely Irish intellectual tradition. »
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown is a 1939 mystery film directed by William Nigh and starring Boris Karloff. Third of the Mr. Wong series finds James Lee Wong investigating the murder of a wealthy Chinese woman. She had been helping to fund the purchase of airplanes to equip China in its 1930s struggle with Japan. »
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The Green Glove is an action adventure film starring Glenn Ford, directed by Rudolph Mate. Glenn Ford stars as an American paratrooper who travels to France after the end of World War II to try and recover a jewel encrusted glove that had been stolen from a country church during the war. His quest leads him to a beautiful young tour guide (Geraldine Brooks), and a Nazi collaborator (George Macready) whom he had fought during the war. »
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My Man Godfrey is a delightful, classic, screwball comedy adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue. It was directed by Gregory La Cava for Universal and is now considered the definitive screwball comedy, with its social commentary on life during the 30s. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. »
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One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her reach, persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." Soon, the Palmers are traced by one Danny Fuller, a sleazy character who claims the money is his. To hang onto it, Jane will need all the qualities of an ultimate femme fatale...and does she ever have them! »
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Panic in the Streets is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Elia Kazan shot exclusively on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film tells the story of Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S. Public Health Service (Richard Widmark) and a police captain (Paul Douglas) who have only a day or two in which to prevent an epidemic of pneumonic plague after Reed determines a waterfront homicide victim is an infected.
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Can a man commit MURDER in a dream?...Here is the spine-tingling, blood-freezing answer...different from any mystery you've ever seen! A remarkable thriller about a young man's torture by nightmare when he wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but he then finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." »
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When a police officer is gunned down by a man whom he had stopped to question, a city-wide dragnet fails to catch the shooter, leaving the police with only minor clues to go on. Later they discover that the same man has been selling stolen equipment through an electronics dealer, and they set a trap for him. But he shoots his way out of the trap and escapes. The police must piece together a description of the man's appearance and habits from witnesses and a few small clues. »
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One of Max Flescher's classic Betty Boop cartoons, featuring a mix of animation and live action. Add in the virtuoso musical talents of Rubinoff. In this adventure, Betty and her friends have to save a baby bird from some bad cats. »
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Classic Roger Corman B-movie. A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him. »
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It's "Gulliver's Travels" in space as an astronaut lands on an asteroid populated by 6-inch tall humanoids and must help them ward off their monster attackers. A 60's B-movie is set in the future - 1980! The mysterious appearance of an unknown planet brings miniature people, giant monsters, beautiful women and undaunted heroes to the screen.
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When Captain Street's best friend Dan O'Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong. Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur. »
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Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. »
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A cabin cruiser is shipwrecked off the coast of a remote island, and its three passengers manage to reach the island safely. The island is owned by a strange and enigmatic count who invites them to stay. But he has an underlying motive for his apparent generosity: Count Zaroff enjoys hunting - and he only hunts the most dangerous game - humans!
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The Last Man on Earth is the original 1964 Italian science fiction horror movie based upon the novel 'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson, directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and staring Vincent Price. Remade in 1971 as 'Omega Man' with Charlton Heaston and in 2007 'I Am Legend' with Will Smith. »
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