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- Comments Off on Peter Hurkos Story 1960
Peter Hurkos, a resistance fighter in Holland during World War II, awakens from a coma and discovers that he not only has psychic powers, but that he can see the good or evil in someone simply by touching them. Soon he is using his powers to help track down a crazed killer.
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A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
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The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6-8 and 13-16 of The Book of Judges.
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- Comments Off on Uncivilised 1937
A white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, is kidnapped by an Afghan slaver, betrothed to a white jungle-man, and menaced by a jealous half-caste rival, a hostile witch-doctor, his crazed-killer son, and opium smugglers!
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Alaskan salmon fisherman battles a corrupt competitor and falls in love with a beautiful society girl and a bawdy barmaid. Dir. George Archainbaud
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Clarke and McCullogh. A compilation of early shorts.
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- Comments Off on Lost Honeymoon 1947
Amnesiac soldier marries a girl, and wakes up to find he has twin daughters!
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Based on the famed comic strip “Joe Palooka”. A fast talking manager introduces a naive country bumpkin to boxing. Dir. Stanley Donen.