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  • January 29, 2021
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A test pilot and his weather observer develop a “robot” control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.

Fugitive tracks down fellow burglar’s daughter to get her to unlock a safety deposit box. Dir. Frank O’Connor.

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

Amnesiac falls under the wing of a preacher and becomes a successful evangelist, but falls into a deadly web of blackmail and murder when his greedy girlfriend comes back into his life. Produced by Irvin Berwick.

Orientals smuggled into U.S. by movie producer until caught by an investigator working as an extra.

Detective Bentley hunts down a killer who is putting an end to a nerve doctor’s wealthy patients.

The story of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short in 1959 when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident

Party loving fashion editor quits her stressful job and decides to settle down with a good man, but when she goes to a nightclub for one last fling, she ends up accused of a murder. Produced by Jack Chertok. Dir. Robert Stevenson

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In this tearjerker, a morally disparate father and son attempt to reconcile their differences. The father is a major construction magnate who has dreamed of his son taking over the lucrative family business. The father’s heart is devastated when the son decides to become a missionary after graduating with an engineering degree and a great rift is formed between them, one that does not heal until a terrible tragedy ensues.

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