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Comedy about a boarding house and its eccentric tenants.

This documentary is a proposal for a “Hollywood Museum” which would honor the greats of radio, screen, and TV…but was never built. Hosted/Narrated by Edward G. Robinson.

An army captain recruits criminals to fight bandits in Argentina.

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In 18th-century France, a bandit meets a beautiful gypsy who convinces him to become a Robin Hood-like do-gooder. Together they steal from the affluent until she’s killed and he must seek revenge. Written by Phillipe de Broca. English dubbed. Dir. Phillipe de Broca

Ken Murray went to Hollywood to capture the movie stars on film. This is his footage and narration.

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

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Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

Bond toils in a boys’ school in Yorkshire where he has been apprenticed by his no-good uncle. Conditions at the school are appalling, so Bond and another student escape, join a traveling theatrical troupe, and enjoy a series of adventures.

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