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The Great Moment (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Great Moment
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Betty Field …
other title: El gran momento
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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The Rage of Paris (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Rage of Paris
director: Henry Koster actor: Danielle Darrieux / Douglas Fairbanks Jr. …
other title: Allora la sposo io / Wirbelwind aus Paris …
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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The Lady Has Plans (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Lady Has Plans
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Ray Milland / Paulette Goddard …
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Reap the Wild Wind
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Paulette Goddard / Ray Milland …
other title: Vento selvaggio / O Vento Selvagem …
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Sunny Side Up (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sunny Side Up
director: David Butler actor: Janet Gaynor / Charles Farrell …
other title: La Vie en rose
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
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My Favorite Blonde (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Favorite Blonde
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Bob Hope / Madeleine Carroll …
other title: Geliebte Spionin / La Blonde de mes rêves …
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hail the Conquering Hero
director: Preston Sturges actor: Eddie Bracken / Ella Raines …
other title: Evviva il nostro eroe / Heil dem siegreichen Helden …
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Five Graves to Cairo
director: Billy Wilder actor: Franchot Tone / Anne Baxter …
other title: I cinque segreti del deserto / Cinco Covas no Egipto …
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
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Christmas in July (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Christmas in July
director: Preston Sturges actor: Dick Powell / Ellen Drew …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Weihnachten im Juli …
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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The Great McGinty (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great McGinty
director: Preston Sturges actor: Brian Donlevy / Muriel Angelus …
other title: Il grande McGinty / Der große McGinty …
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...