Five more short comedy pieces from Germany's popular television program. Only available in German. ~ Rovi...
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1987
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Althene Holcroft
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1985
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The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else...
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Hilde
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1982
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1980
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated...
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Esther Lieber-man
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1978
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during...
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Lotte
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1974
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In this drama, a jealous wife murders her husband, a French antique dealer, after she suspects him of marital infidelity. In...
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1972
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The fourth film to explore Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, this clever adaptation takes some rather broad liberties with the...
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1971
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Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He...
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1971
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A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this routine espionage drama. Dominique...
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Helen
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1970
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David McCallum stars in Hauser's Memory as scientist Hillel Mondoro. At the behest of the CIA, Mondoro willingly has himself...
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Anna
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1970
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This stylishly eerie Spanish production stars elegant Lili Palmer as the severe headmistress of a French boarding school for...
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Senora Fourneau
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1970
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Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch...
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Mme. De Montreuil
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1969
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Adrianne
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1969
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The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful...
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Jocasta
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1968
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A police investigator is forced to rely on the man he's been instructed to apprehend in this cold war thriller. Sir James...
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Sheila Quentin
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1968
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Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government....
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1968
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The success of several 1960s-era cat-burglar movies depended upon the suave and agreeable machinations of the film's...
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1967
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Alice
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1967
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Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered...
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Isabelle
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1966
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1966
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1966
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Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays...
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Marie
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1965
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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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Dutchy
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1965
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Walter Slezak plays a guide in a Vienna wax museum in this fantasy. When the tourists get to the figure of Chancellor...
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Princess Metternich
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1965
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1965
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1964
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In this thriller three people are murdered during a business power play. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1964
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In this French drama, set upon the Riviera, a widow works a jewel thief on the side. She keeps this up until she meets a...
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1963
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This overdone German film relies on a repetitive plot centered around bedroom antics worthy of daytime dramas. A call girl...
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Schauspielerin
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1963
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Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women"...
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1962
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In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the...
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Marianne Mollendorf
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1962
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In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the...
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Vedena Podhajsky
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1962
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Adorable Julia, by director Alfred Weidenmann, is perhaps a little too provincial or out-moded for most audiences in spite of...
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Julia
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1962
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In this WW II drama, a captain attempts to navigate his Italian submarine through enemy waters. He is stalked by a British...
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1962
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1962
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1961
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Mrs. Cheney (Lilli Palmer) is a genteel widow whose outward appearances hide her involvement as a thief. With the help of her...
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Mrs. Cheney
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1961
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In this dark drama, a married tutor in a French village finds himself obsessed by a beautiful young girl and begins to stalk...
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Wife
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1961
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Katharine Dougherty
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1961
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A slight screenplay and surface characterization undermine the telling of this dramatic tale by director Roger Leenhardt....
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Eva/Anne
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1961
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Lilli Palmer stars as a nun in a World War 2-era Italian convent. At the risk of her own life and those of her cloistered...
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Mother Katherine
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1960
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An unexceptional drama of the exceptional George Bernard Shaw's story of a conflict of morals, Frau Warren's Gewerbe stars...
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1959
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Clark Gable stars in this standard romantic comedy, one of his last films before his death in 1960. Based on the play Accent...
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Kathryn Ward
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1959
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For some reason, European filmmakers are irresistibly attracted to the notion of sex and betrayal under the big top. The...
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1959
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Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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Beatrice Hastings
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1958
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Christa Winsloe's novel Maedchen in Uniform was first filmed in Germany in 1933. The story, about a sensitive schoolgirl's...
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Fraulein von Bernburg
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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1958
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All the money in the world cannot provide the security the rich industrialist in this drama seems to crave. Although wealthy...
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1957
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1957
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1956
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1956
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Lilli Palmer stars in the German Teufel in Seide (Devil in Silk). Lilli plays Melanie, the new wife of famed concert pianist...
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Melanie
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1956
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1956
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Iduna
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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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Jan de Hartog's two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition...
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Abby Edwards
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1952
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Mary Groome
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1951
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The French Hans le Marin secured an American distributor on the strength of its three stars. Jean-Pierre Aumont plays the...
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Maria
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1949
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Another interesting effort from independent Enterprise Productions, No Minor Vices stars recent French import Louis Jourdan....
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April Aswell
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1948
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Adapted by Allen Boretz from Lucille S. Plumbs and Sara B. Smith's stage play Ever the Beginning, My Girl Tisa is set in New...
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Tisa Kepes
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1948
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This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks...
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Peg Born
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1947
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Gina
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1946
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Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but...
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Baroness Edith de Kekesfaria
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1946
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Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed...
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Rikki Krausner
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1945
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English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding...
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Brigid Knudsen
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1944
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Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of...
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Erna
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1943
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Robert Ardrey's theatrical semi-fantasy Thunder Rock was transformed in 1944 into one of the most successful British films of...
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Melanie Kurtz
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1942
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June Lansdowne
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1940
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A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer)....
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Clytie Devine
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1939
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There's no folly like a Blind Folly, as scripters H.F. Maltby and John Hunter strive to prove in this British comedy....
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1939
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Crackerjack tells the story of Jack Drake (Tom Walls), who is seemingly an ordinary, foppish member of England's idle rich, a...
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Baroness von Haltse
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1938
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In this French crime comedy, the headmaster of a school located near a prison is inadvertently involved in stealing the...
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1937
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In this British war drama, an Italian soldier marries an Austrian girl and together they return to Italy. When war erupts...
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Gelda
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1937
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In this romantic drama, a renowned stage singer leaves the theater to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. The break down...
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Susan
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1937
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1937
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The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this...
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Lou
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1937
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A wealthy doctor's bratty son throws a temper tantrum when his father denies him a car. To get even, the spoiled sprout...
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1936
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The popularity of musical-comedy favorite Jack Hulbert sometimes obscured the fact that his brother Claude was a talented...
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Lydia
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1936
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along...
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1936
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1935
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1931
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