Pat O'Brien
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When cocky naval yard worker Chesty O'Connor battles Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin over a dame, he not only loses the fight but the gal and his job as well. Joining the Navy to get even with Biff, Chesty's warned he'll get thrown in the brig if he clobbers a superior officer. Deciding to steal his girlfriend instead, Chesty learns she's actually Biff's sister Dorothy, a discovery that soon leads to war when her brother declares her off-limits.
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"A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star Keeler."--Internet Movie Database
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Struggling Calvert University needs a new income stream fast. So it hires firebrand coach James Gore to build a turnstile-clicking football team. He builds it by bringing in top players, slipping them stipends, putting them in pea-brained classes, manipulating the media and cutting himself in on cushy side deals. But one of Calvert's vaunted 'Four Aces' quits when he uncovers the disgrace behind the glory, a move that could throw Gore's scheme for...
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America was at war, and many a seagoing vessel got called to duty, like the rickety Merchant Marine freighter whose crew serves with distinction, destroying Nazi bombers and U-boats in a rousing adventure adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by future Red River and Winchester '73 screenwriter Borden Chase.
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Wyoming Steve Gibson has wavy hair, a pleasant tenor, and a really neat cowboy outfit. He's sure to hit it big as Hollywood's next Singing Cowboy, as long as nobody figures out Wyoming Steve is really an East Coast city slicker who's scared silly by animals, even gophers. The faux buckaroo manages to pull off the ruse until he's challenged to ride in a Madison Square Garden rodeo on a horse! What's a terrified tenderfoot to do?
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Criterion collection volume 950
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Two musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia, since they witnessed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
10) Bombardier
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Action-packed excitement when the U.S. Air Force tangles with the Japanese over the Pacific--and an ace fighter pilot tangles with the head of bombardier school over the same woman.
11) Flying high
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"The goofy inventor of an 'aerocopter' flying machine, who is compelled to prove the efficiency of his invention in a slapstick cross-country airmail delivery race."--Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
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If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight.
Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...
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"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work," Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse, but victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men.
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The Fighting 69th" is a World War I regiment consisting mostly of New York-Irish soldiers. Jerry Plunkett is the cockiest member of a cocky crew. Jerry is a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and enlisted of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the chaplain, Father Duffy, tries to make Plunkett see the greater good. None of them seem to succeed. In the trenches, Plunkett acts selfishly and cowardly,...