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1950s English-language films
Rock-a-Bye Baby
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
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The Pajama Game
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
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The Rising of the Moon
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's...
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Land of the Pharaohs
In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Khufu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life." To this end, he enlists the aid of Vashtar, an architect whose people are...
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It's a Dog's Life
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
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The Trap
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the count...
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Dragnet
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
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The Tingler
After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host. "Scream for your lives!"
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Doctor in the House
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Fallin...
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Springfield Rifle
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war...
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