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Scientist’s daughter escapes from a concentration camp in Prague with the help of a fellow captive and an English double-agent. Wayne and Radford reprise their roles from Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”, as two cricket-obsessed Brits. Dir. Carol Reed
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Philippine nationalist rebels against American occupation in 1902, but is torn between fighting off the soldiers and allowing them to help his people with food and medicine. Written by Eddie Romero. Dir. Gerardo de Leon , Eddie Romero.
- January 29, 2021
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In this early Benny movie, he’s a “Medicine Man” who comes into a small town with enormous fanfare, peddling his all-purpose “health tonic,” in his wake, a long trail of empty wallets and broken hearts lay strewn.
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Trials of a teenage girl who gets pregant in the 1930’s.
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Hal Roach Streamliner has Summerville as a crazy inventor wreaking havoc on a sexually repressed small town with his gadgets and a powerful love potion.
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Group of con artists try to put one over on each another. Dir. Phil Rosen.
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While standing at the grave of their beloved headmaster, two schoolboys reminisce about the man who brought them together as friends.
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- Comments Off on Farewell To Arms, A 1932
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry andNurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takesplace in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. Based on Hemmingway novel. AA Cinematography and Sound. AAN Best Picture.