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Calamity Jane (1953) #1416
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Calamity Jane: Directed by David Butler. With Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey. The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok |
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #1454
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. Added 2nd December 2022 |
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Peter Pan (1953) #1511
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1h 17m Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan. |
824 |
Alice in Wonderland (1951) #427
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway. Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way. Disney |
825 |
The African Queen (1951) #1573
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1h 45m In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship. |
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Whisky Galore (1949) #1131
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Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. With Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton. Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship. |
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The Red Shoes (1948) #1529
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2h 15m A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. |
828 |
A Night in Casablanca (1946) #1548
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1h 25m The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure. |
829 |
Brief Encounter (1945) #1298
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Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. Courtesy of The Daily Mail |
830 |
Brief Encounter (1945) #1402
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Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband |
831 |
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) #29
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Directed by Orson Welles. Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. |
832 |
Casablanca (1942) #1169
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Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco. |
833 |
The Wizard of Oz (1939) #1379
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The Wizard of Oz: Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor. With Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr. Dorothy Gale is swept away from her home in Kansas to the magical Land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home and help her friends as well |
834 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) #1571
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1h 56m In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her. |
835 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) #435
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Directed by William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson. With Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell. Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen soon learns of this and prepares to feed her a poison apple. Disney |
836 |
King Kong (1933) #1413
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King Kong: Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher. A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. |
837 |
Horse Feathers (1932) #1271
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Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University. |
838 |
Monkey Business (1931) #1270
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Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
839 |
Safety Last! (1923) #1443
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Safety Last!: Directed by Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures No DVD |