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2006
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Produced by Monterey Home Video, Poetry Hall of Fame 2 is the second volume of a four-part video series hosted by actress...
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1993
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This video is volume four of a four-part series presented by PBS, featuring some of the greatest poets in the English...
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1993
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Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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This teaching film, aimed at students in grades four through 12, presents an overview of some of America's best-known poets...
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1989
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Henry Fonda's career is profiled in this video as his stage, screen and television years are captured. ~ Rovi...
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1984
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This video is part of a series that profiles some of the most important people in world history. This volume takes a look at...
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1982
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There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with...
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Norman Thayer Jr.
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1981
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Hollywood veterans Henry Fonda and Myrna Loy co-starred for the first and only time in the 60-minute TV drama Summer...
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Joshua Turner
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1981
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1980
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Originally telecast live from Dallas' Southern Methodist University on April 7, 1980, The Oldest Living Graduate was adapted...
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1980
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Based on Katherine Anne Porter's short story, the touching saga of a elderly matriarch who still mourns over her lost love...
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1980
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1980
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Based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this made-for-television drama tells the tale of a college student, a mysterious...
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1980
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Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious...
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1980
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of James Stewart. Included are excerpts from:...
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1980
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Clarence Earl Gideon
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1980
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The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his...
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Col. Frederick Warner
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1979
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The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley...
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1979
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When tough gambler Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) wins young Wanda Nevada (Brooke Shields) in a poker game, he discovers...
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Old Prospector
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1979
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The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of...
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"General Foster"
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1978
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Set in Illinois (and filmed in Canada), Home to Stay stars Henry Fonda as an aging farmer who resists the notion of moving...
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Grandfather
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1978
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City on Fire, a disaster thriller filmed in Canada with dialogue in both French and English, tells the story of an...
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1978
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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1978
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Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the...
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1978
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Henry Fonda stars in this one-man play based on the writings of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow. The play, constructed...
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1978
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Mr. Whitehead
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1977
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1977
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Part of the "American Short Story" collection, this is an adaptation of a story by Stephen Crane. In this film, a traveller...
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1977
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Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an...
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Simon Davenport
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1977
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Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working...
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Narrator
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1977
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The 44-minute Soldier's Home is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Richard Backus stars as a returning World War I veteran...
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1977
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In this special feature, a group of people examine a variety of unexplained powers, including ESP, astrology, and magic. ~...
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1977
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Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
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1976
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One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from...
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1976
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Elegant John
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1976
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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1976
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Introduced by Henry Fonda, this unrated but good family movie is an adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story. Taking...
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1976
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Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald....
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Narrator
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1976
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Rod Steiger portrays Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this internationally produced "how the mighty have fallen" biopic....
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Cardinal Schuster
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1974
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Host
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1974
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Produced for public television, Parker Adderson, Philosopher was based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce. Harris Yulin plays...
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1974
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Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody...
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Jack Beauregard
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1973
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In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and...
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Davies
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1973
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Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using...
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Mark Forbes
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1973
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The Red Pony is a 1973 TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, previously filmed for theatrical release in 1949....
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Carl Tiffin
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1973
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A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer...
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Mark Sawyer
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1973
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After several feature-length documentaries (Elvis: That's The Way It Is, Soul to Soul), filmmaker Denis Sanders returned to...
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Host
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1973
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This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young...
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1971
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Det. Sgt. Chad Smith
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1971
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Det. Sgt. Chad Smith
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1971
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Also known as Never Give an Inch, this film was based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Paul Newman (who also directed) stars as Hank...
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Henry Stamper
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1971
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Harley Sullivan
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1970
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An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris...
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Woodward Lopeman
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1970
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Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II....
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Capt. Nolan
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1970
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1969
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In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western...
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Frank
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1968
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Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a...
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Larkin
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1968
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The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true...
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John S. Bottomly
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1968
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This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with...
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Frank Beardsley
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1968
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It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner...
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Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
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1968
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Long before he scored with the epic Ragtime, novelist E.L. Doctorow wrote a minor novel upon which this stark 1967 film is...
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Will Blue
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1967
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Henry Fonda narrates this 51-minute documentary about Bill and Louise Dukes and their 18 children. The offspring range in age...
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Narrator
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1967
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A prime early example of how to make a truly worthwhile TV movie, Stranger on the Run is a tough, minimalist western in the...
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The Stranger
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1967
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This vintage documentary from 1966 follows young Casey Tibbs and a group of real bronco riders on a ride through South...
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1966
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The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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Meredith
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1966
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La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international...
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Kourlov
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1965
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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1965
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1965
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Two aging bronc-busters (Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda) make their meager money by breaking wild horses. They dream of better...
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Howdy Lewis
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1965
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In December of 1944, the Allied high command is convinced that German forces in Belgium are in a low state of readiness, and...
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Lt. Col. Kiley
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1965
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Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command...
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President
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1964
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Frank Broderick
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1964
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William Russell
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1964
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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Clay Spencer
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1963
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt
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1962
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1962
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Ambrose Bierce's classic hallucinatory short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has been adapted to film at least three...
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1962
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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Jethro Stuart
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1962
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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Robert Leffingwell
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1962
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Warlock offers us a mean-spirited, mercenary Henry Fonda and an honest, peaceloving Richard Widmark. A Wyatt Earp-like...
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Clay Blaisdell
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1959
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After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire...
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Willie Bauche
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1959
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A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury...
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Producer, Juror #8
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1957
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This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first...
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Lewis Easton
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1957
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Morgan Hickman
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1957
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In...
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Pierre
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1956
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Director Alfred Hitchcock lets us know from the outset that The Wrong Man is a painfully true story and not one of his...
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Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero (Manny)
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1956
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Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
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Lt. Doug Roberts
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1955
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1955
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Pictura is a feature-length collection of several short-subject documentary celebrations of great artists and their work. The...
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1952
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Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy...
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1949
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Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
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1948
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The Fugitive
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1948
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1948
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe...
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Joe Adams
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1947
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Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a...
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Peter Lapham
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1947
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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Wyatt Earp
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1946
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Gil Carter
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1943
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Cpl. Colin Spence
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1943
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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Little Pinks
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1942
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In this screen version of the James Thurber-Elliot Nugent Broadway play of the same name, Henry Fonda stars as bespectacled,...
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Tommy Turner
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1942
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Director Rouben Mamoulian completed a three-picture 20th Century Fox deal with this airy comic romance that attempted to ape...
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John Wheeler
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1942
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Tad Page
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1942
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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George
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1942
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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Peter Kirk
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1941
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Charles Pike
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1941
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Wild Geese Calling is one of those 20th Century-Fox star vehicles which used to pop up all the time on TV before the Carsons,...
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John Murdock
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1941
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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Ben Woodson,Frank James
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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Alexander Moore
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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Tom Joad
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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Chad Hanna
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1940
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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working...
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"Brick" Tennant
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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Abraham Lincoln
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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Gilbert Martin
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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Frank James
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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Tom Watson
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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Preston Dillard
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1938
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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Jim Kimmerlee
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1938
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An undying love is chronicled in this "women's picture." The sweeping tale begins in a quiet New England village during the...
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Ives Towner
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1938
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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Peter Ames
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1938
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Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's...
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Marco
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1938
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This romantic comedy, set amidst the exciting world of horseracing is Britain's first Technicolor film. The story, set in the...
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1937
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Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once....
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Eddie Taylor
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1937
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Jack Merrick
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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Slim
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1937
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John Smith/"Anthony Amberton"
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1936
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Spendthrift gives the modern viewer a pretty good idea how Hollywood planned to "mold" the image of new star Henry Fonda. The...
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Townsend Middleton
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1936
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Paramount's first outdoor Technicolor feature, Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the third film version of John Fox Jr.'s novel....
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Dave Tolliver
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1936
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished...
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David Bartlett
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1935
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Daniel Harrow
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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Jonathan Street
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1935
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Hosted by acclaimed actor Henry Fonda, star of such movies as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Twelve Angry Men (1957), and Once...
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The second of three volumes celebrating Hollywood moviemaking, this tape features rare archival footage from the "Fabulous...
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