Universal Pictures Company
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Criterion collection volume 380
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Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
6) Blindfold
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Dr. Bartholomew Snow is a respected New York psychologist recruited to meet with scientist Arthur Vincenti who suffered from a mental breakdown, while the scientist completes a top secret military project. Due to the level of the classified work, Snow must be blindfolded when taken to Vincenti's location. When a group of enemy agents gets to the troubled scientist, Snow is the only one who can find him, and he may have to wear a blindfold.
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Criterion collection volume 176
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Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight,...
8) Joe Kidd
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Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
9) P.J
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Down-on-his-luck New York private eye P.J. Detweiler takes a bodyguard job to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. P.J. gets in over his head after Orbison's business partner is gunned down and he's framed for the murder. It becomes clear to P.J. that he's been set up and after his release by the authorities, he makes it back to New York to confront the masterminds of the plot.
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"Based on the best-selling novel about a two-fisted Oregon lumber family, the story focuses on a family that bucks their close-knit timber community in order to deliver a shipment of logs in defiance of a strike. In the process, one man is killed, the family patriarch Henry (Henry Fonda) is injured, and the eldest son Hank (Paul Newman) almost loses his wife (Lee Remick) to his half brother (Michael Sarrazin). Filled with complex characters and issues...
11) The far country
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A solid western saga set against the colorful, scenic backdrop of Alaskan mining camps.
12) Seven Sinners
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Deported from every South Sea island on which she has ever performed, sexy saloon singer Bijou Blanche winds up in Boni Komba at the Seven Sinners Café by convincing the manager that she will break only hearts, not barstools. Bijou soon charms a handsome Navy officer who falls deeply in love with the woman his superiors refer to as a naval "destroyer". When a spiteful admirer of Bijou's resorts to violence to keep the lovers apart, the glamorous...
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W.C. Fields and Charlie McCarthy bring their legendary radio feud to the screen in the classic comedy You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, co-starring Edgar Bergen. The seedy owner of a flea-bitten circus, Larson E. Whipsnade (Fields) will stop at nothing to arrange a marriage between his daughter Victoria (Constance Moore) and boring millionaire Richard Bel-Goodie (James Bush). So when Victoria declares she is in love with The Great Edgar (Bergen), Whipsnade...
14) The Hindenburg
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A dramatization of the journey and crash of the German dirigible, the Hindenburg.
15) Psycho
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"Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn)--a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his 'mother.' Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister (Julianne Moore) and a private investigator (William H. Macy). They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious 'mother' at the Bates Motel"--Container...
17) The spoilers
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Two adventurers in the Yukon quarrel over land rights and the town's sexiest saloon girl. Cherry Mallotte must choose between the honest captain and the charming-but-no-good kingpin.
19) My man Godfrey
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Criterion collection volume 114
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A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler.
20) War arrow
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Army Major Brady (Chandler) is sent to end the Kiowa uprising in Texas. He must find a way to save the fort as well as the beautiful Elaine (O'Hara), wife of the missing cavalry officer.