Adolph Zukor
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Bing Crosby plays press agent, Tony Marvin, whose job at a pineapple company is to turn Hawaii into pure paradise. Tony is escorting a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her friend (Marth Raye) on a tour of the islands. Tony must go to outrageous lengths to convince the women to stay, or risk a public relations disaster.
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An opulent romantic adventure that focuses on a diverse group of passengers traveling by express train from Peking to Shanghai. Among them is Captain Doc Harvey, who finds himself reunited with his former lover, now an infamous adventuress who calls herself Shanghai Lily. Desire and deception follow, culminating in a tense hostage situation when their train is hijacked by a Chinese warlord.
3) Thunderbolt
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Condemned gangster Thunderbolt Jim Lang plots revenge on the young man who stole his girlfriend and landed next to him on death row.
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A surreal tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar recounts to the young Antonio Galvan the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez, warning his listener to gird himself against her charms.
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A spoiled princess is sent to Russia to marry Grand Duke Peter, but is horrified to discover her intened is a half-wit and depravity rules in her new home. Before long, however, she is initiated into the sadistic power politics that govern the court, paving the way for her transformation into the imperious libertine Catherine the Great.
8) Easy living
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"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container
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Egypt, 48 B.C. Cleopatra is facing palace revolt in her kingdom. She decides to embrace the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Roman rule. When Caesar is led astray by Cleopatra and is killed, she transfers her affections to Marc Antony. She does all that she can to dazzle Marc on a barge fit for a king. But her trick may not work this time around. A web of royal deception and betrayal.
"Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra,...
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Criterion collection volume 505
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In this "enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap" ... "an elderly couple must move in with their adult children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their ofspring's selfish whims."--Container
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I met him in Paris: A successful designer must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright, a dashing playboy and a hometown boy.
Bluebeard's eighth wife: Mademoiselle Nicole is the lovely daughter of a destitute French aristocrat. She catches the eye of a dashing millionaire. After a brief courtship she accepts his marriage proposal. On their wedding day she is shocked to learn her betrothed has been married seven times before and determines...
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"Mary Eaton stars in this rollickign feature about the reise of a showgirl. This early talkie incluses cameos by many of the top names of the day, including Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin, and Ring Lardner, and culminates with a Ziegfeld Follies dance number! Also, listen for such period hits as Bye bye blackbird, Baby face and Blue skies. This movie is like a time machine, and it will take you back!"--Container
13) Wings
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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
15) Angel
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The story of the unfaithful wife of a foreign diplomat entangled in an intricate love triangle.
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Texas rangers: Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Canyon passage: Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Kansas raiders: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join...
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Duck soup: To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs. Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president.
Horse feathers: Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College.
Monkey business: While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters.
Animal crackers: Captain...