Van Johnson
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Carson, a mercenary sea captain willing to do anything if the price is right, in this Cold War adventure. Tracy, the wealthy Frenchwoman able to pay Carson's price and induce him to undertake a daring rescue mission inside Communist Albania. But their troubles are just beginning when they cross the border, and the mission grows larger and more complicated when their group is taken captive by guerrillas, led by the rogue Trifon.
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In 1620, a group of religious outcasts boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World, where they founded a tiny wilderness outpost that was the genesis for what would become the United States of America. This is their thrilling story, a tale of hardship and devotion, of storms, hunger and disease faced and defied.
3) Invitation
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A woman's trust in her husband is shaken when she finds out her father paid her husband to marry her.
4) Brigadoon
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Two Americans stumble upon a Scottish village which comes to life for only one day a century. One of the men falls in love with a townswoman, and has to decide where his heart lies.
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"[T]his romantic drama is set during post-WWII high society Paris. Writer and war veteran Charles Wills ... returns to the Left Bank to reminisce about his life after the liberation of the City of Lights. There he meets wealthy American eccentric James Ellswirth ... and his daughters, Marion ... and the beautiful but frivolous Helen ... Although Marion loves Charles, he marries Helen instead, and the two begin a family. Their happiness soon spirals...
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The year was 1944. Overseas, World War II raged. Back home, a war-torn population suffered the loss of loved ones. Along came A Guy Named Joe, a fanciful, heart-warming tale based on the legend that pilots never die but return to guide fledgling airmen, and the public welcomed it with open arms.
11) The Caine mutiny
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During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage...
13) Easy to wed
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The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is a nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.
14) Command decision
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General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
15) Madame Curie
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In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
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If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born.
The last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes...
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If you were born in the 40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term, the country was isolationist, American workers got the forty hour work week, Walt Disney Studios released Fantasia and Pinocchio, Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time, and Glen Miller wrote the decade's signature song, In the Mood.
Till the clouds roll by: based on the life and music of Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern...