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The Southerner (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
The Southerner
director: Jean Renoir actor: Zachary Scott / Betty Field …
other title: L'uomo del Sud / De ukuelige …
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
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The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Keys of the Kingdom
director: John M. Stahl actor: Gregory Peck / Thomas Mitchell …
other title: Le chiavi del Paradiso / As Chaves do Reino …
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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Take Her, She's Mine (1963) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Take Her, She's Mine
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Sandra Dee …
other title: Prendila è mia / In Liebe eine 1 …
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.
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Night People (1954) IMDb TMDB
Night People
director: Nunnally Johnson actor: Gregory Peck / Broderick Crawford …
other title: Gente di notte / Das unsichtbare Netz …
A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
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We're Not Married! (1952) IMDb TMDB
We're Not Married!
director: Edmund Goulding actor: Ginger Rogers / Fred Allen …
other title: Matrimoni a sorpresa / Travessuras de Casados …
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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The True Story of Jesse James (1957) IMDb TMDB
The True Story of Jesse James
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Robert Wagner / Jeffrey Hunter …
other title: La vera storia di Jess il bandito / Rächer der Enterbten …
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
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The Pied Piper (1942) IMDb TMDB
The Pied Piper
director: Irving Pichel actor: Monty Woolley / Roddy McDowall …
other title: Der Rattenfänger von Hameln / El flautista de Hamelin
Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
director: Nunnally Johnson actor: Gregory Peck / Jennifer Jones …
other title: L'uomo dal vestito grigio / Der Mann im grauen Flanell …
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: Ronald Colman / Loretta Young …
other title: Bulldog Drummond schlägt zurück / Un aventurero audaz …
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Mr. Hobbs va in vacanza / Mr. Hobbs macht Ferien …
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.