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The Crowd (1928)
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Director King Vidor
Writer King Vidor, John V.A. Weaver, Joseph Farnham
Cast Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
Plot The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
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The Big Parade (1925)
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Director King Vidor, George W. Hill
Writer Laurence Stallings, Harry Behn, Joseph Farnham
Cast John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, Hobart Bosworth
Plot A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
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War and Peace (1956)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Lev Tolstoy, Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby
Cast Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer
Plot Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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Stella Dallas (1937)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, Olive Higgins Prouty
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley
Plot A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
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The Fountainhead (1949)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Ayn Rand
Cast Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Plot An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Show People (1928)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Agnes Christine Johnston, Laurence Stallings, Ralph Spence
Cast Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson
Plot A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
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Director King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle
Writer David O. Selznick, Niven Busch, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
Plot Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
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The Champ (1931)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Wanda Tuchock, Don Marquis
Cast Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Plot An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
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'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) aka Northwest Passage (1940)
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Director King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke
Writer Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings, Kenneth Roberts
Cast Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Plot Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
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The Patsy (1928)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Barry Conners, Ralph Spence
Cast Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler
Plot An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
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Street Scene (1931)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Elmer Rice
Cast Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Plot Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
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Man Without a Star (1955)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Borden Chase, D.D. Beauchamp, Dee Linford
Cast Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
Plot Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
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The Citadel (1938)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill
Cast Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Plot An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
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Beyond the Forest (1949)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Lenore J. Coffee, Stuart Engstrand
Cast Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian
Plot Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.
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Our Daily Bread (1934)
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Director King Vidor
Writer King Vidor, Elizabeth Hill, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper
Plot A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
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Solomon and Sheba (1959)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Crane Wilbur, Anthony Veiller, Paul Dudley
Cast Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders
Plot After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba.
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La Boheme aka La Boh me (1926)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Frederique De Gresac, Henri Murger, William M. Conselman
Cast Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree
Plot A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
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Hallelujah (1929)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Wanda Tuchock, Richard Schayer, Ransom Rideout
Cast Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Plot A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
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Comrade X (1940)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Walter Reisch
Cast Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka
Plot An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
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Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Rafael Sabatini, Dorothy Farnum, Marian Ainslee
Cast John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy
Plot In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
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H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
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Director King Vidor
Writer John P. Marquand, Elizabeth Hill, King Vidor
Cast Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
Plot A man who lived his life as he was advised to do, not how he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
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Ruby Gentry (1952)
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Director King Vidor
Writer Silvia Richards, Arthur Fitz-Richard
Cast Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden
Plot A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
