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The Big Knife

The Big Knife

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start...

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The Magnificent Yankee

The Magnificent Yankee

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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The People Against O'Hara

The People Against O'Hara

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

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The Journey

The Journey

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

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711 Ocean Drive

711 Ocean Drive

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 6.8

The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern Calif...

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Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

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The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.

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These Wilder Years

These Wilder Years

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.

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South Pacific

South Pacific

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out...

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Rebel in Town

Rebel in Town

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The M...

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