Rex Harrison
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Time: The turn of the century. Determined to make a life for herself and her daughter, Lucy Muir (Tierney), a young widow, moves into a cottage overlooking the windswept English coast. She soon learns that it's haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a salty sea captain (Harrison). But the Captain's effort to scare off his new tenant soon develops into a love affair.
2) Shalimar
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Sir John Locksley, the greatest jewel thief, learns he is dying and decides that his most prized possession, the Shalimar Ruby, should be passed on to a worthy successor. Locksley holds a deadly contest at his island estate for the best jewel thieves.
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The charming drama about a most unconventional Asian king and the British woman he hires to run a school for his wives and many children is based on the real-life memoirs of Anna Leonowens and her experiences in Siam. Novelized by Margaret Landon, this is the story of the "exasperating" Anna (Irene Dunne) caught in the excesses of the royal court of King Mongkut of Siam (Rex Harrison). His heart is torn between tradition and the wish to be scientifically...
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When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist initially refuses. Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome. Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by the artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.
8) The citadel
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A young doctor in a Welsh mining village runs up against the medical establishment when he tries to explore the cause of a cough disabling miners; he abandons his humanitarian goals for a London practice.
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Passion, intrigue, adventure, love-- everything happens in the yellow Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile that ties together three stories as it passes from owner to owner. In the first, an aristocrat with a penchant for the racetrack discovers his wife has a penchant for backseat amour. Then a moll takes a spin down lover's lane in the Rolls while her mobster boyfriend is busy rubbing out the competition. Finally, an imperious widow purchases the car...
11) My fair lady
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In 1910s London, Professor Henry Higgins bets he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a crude flower girl, into a lady of high society through linguistic training. Eliza, seeking a better life despite her Cockney accent, enlists Higgins and Colonel Pickering's help. Along the way, Higgins is impressed by Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle's, honesty and linguistic talents, recommending him to a wealthy American.
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Criterion collection volume 292
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A jealous world-famous symphony conductor entertains elaborate thoughts of vengeance over his wife's supposed infidelities, set to three separate orchestral works.
14) Cleopatra
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
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Criterion collection volume 523
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Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.