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Casablanca (1942)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Cast James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Plot An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
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Ladri di biciclette aka Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Bartolini, Oreste Biancoli
Cast Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
Plot In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
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Director Orson Welles
Writer Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman
Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Plot Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
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Director John Huston
Writer John Huston, B. Traven
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Plot Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Plot Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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Roma citta aperta aka Rome, Open City (1945)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini
Cast Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero
Plot During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain
Cast Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Plot An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Director John Ford
Writer Nunnally Johnson, John Steinbeck
Cast Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Plot An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Rope (1948)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Laurents
Cast James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Plot Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
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Banshun aka Late Spring (1949)
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Director Yasujira Ozu
Writer Kazuo Hirotsu, Kago Noda, Yasujira Ozu
Cast Chisha Rya, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka
Plot Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
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The Third Man (1949)
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Director Carol Reed
Writer Graham Greene, Orson Welles, Alexander Korda
Cast Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
Plot Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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Director John Huston
Writer John Huston, Dashiell Hammett
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Plot San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
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La Belle et la Bete aka Beauty and the Beast (1946)
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Director Jean Cocteau, Rene Clement
Writer Jean Cocteau, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Cast Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parely
Plot A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
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Notorious (1946)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, John Taintor Foote
Cast Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Plot The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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Les enfants du paradis aka Children of Paradise (1945)
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Director Marcel Carne
Writer Jacques Prevert
Cast Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Plot The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, MacKinlay Kantor
Cast Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
Plot Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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Fantasia (1940)
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Director James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr.
Writer Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Lee Blair
Cast Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, The Philadelphia Orchestra
Plot A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
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Rebecca (1940)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Cast Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Plot A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
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Nora inu aka Stray Dog (1949)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryaza Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshira Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Plot During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
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The Big Sleep (1946)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Plot Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail--and what might be love.
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Vredens dag aka Day of Wrath (1943)
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Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer Carl Theodor Dreyer, Poul Knudsen, Paul La Cour
Cast Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Plot The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
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Pinocchio (1940)
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Director Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson
Writer Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears, Otto Englander
Cast Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc
Plot A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.
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Bambi (1942)
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Director James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand
Writer Felix Salten, Perce Pearce, Larry Morey
Cast Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey
Plot The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
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Germania anno zero aka Germany Year Zero (1948)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Lizzani, Max Kolpe
Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Plot A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Donald Ogden Stewart, Philip Barry, Waldo Salt
Cast Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Plot After a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
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Director George Seaton
Writer George Seaton, Valentine Davies
Cast Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne
Plot After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mis...
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Laura (1944)
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Director Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Vera Caspary, Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Plot A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Cast Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Plot A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
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Sciuscia aka Shoeshine (1946)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
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Dumbo (1941)
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Director Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson
Writer Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Otto Englander
Cast Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett
Plot Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.
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Brief Encounter (1945)
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Director David Lean
Writer Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean
Cast Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Plot Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
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His Girl Friday (1940)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Cast Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Plot When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
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Paisa aka Paisan (1946)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Plot During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Le corbeau (1943)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Louis Chavance, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
Plot A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Director Billy Wilder
Writer Charles R. Jackson, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Cast Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Plot The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
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Ivan Groznyy aka Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
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Director Sergei Eisenstein
Writer Sergei Eisenstein
Cast Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Plot During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
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The Red Shoes (1948)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Hans Christian Andersen, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter
Cast Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Plot A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
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Director Robert Hamer
Writer Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton
Cast Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Plot A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
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Yoidore tenshi aka Drunken Angel (1948)
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshira Mifune, Reizabura Yamamoto
Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
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Out of the Past (1947)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer Daniel Mainwaring, James M. Cain, Frank Fenton
Cast Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Plot A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Miklas La¡szla, Ben Hecht
Cast Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Plot Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Red River (1948)
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Director Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Writer Borden Chase, Charles Schnee
Cast John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Plot Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
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White Heat (1949)
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Director Raoul Walsh
Writer Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Virginia Kellogg
Cast James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Plot A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
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Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor aka Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1946)
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Director Sergei Eisenstein
Writer Sergei Eisenstein
Cast Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Plot As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
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To Have and Have Not (1944)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Ernest Hemingway, Jules Furthman, William Faulkner
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
Plot During World War II, an American expatriate helps transport a French Resistance leader and his wife to Martinique while romancing a lounge singer.
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Key Largo (1948)
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Director John Huston
Writer Richard Brooks, John Huston, Maxwell Anderson
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Plot A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.
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Ossessione aka Obsession (1943)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicata, Giuseppe De Santis
Cast Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani
Plot Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Director Preston Sturges
Writer Preston Sturges
Cast Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
Plot Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
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Great Expectations (1946)
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Director David Lean
Writer Charles Dickens, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Cast John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager
Plot A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Gaslight (1944)
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Director George Cukor
Writer John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
Cast Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Plot Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...
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Quai des Orfevres aka Jenny Lamour (1947)
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer Stanislas-Andre Steeman, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry
Cast Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier
Plot A jealous husband intends to kill the man his wife is meeting for business, but arrives to find the deed already done.
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Ranald MacDougall, James M. Cain, William Faulkner
Cast Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Plot A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
Plot A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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Partie de campagne aka A Day in the Country (1946)
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Jean Renoir, Guy de Maupassant
Cast Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux
Plot The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
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The Search (1948)
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Director Fred Zinnemann
Writer Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler, Paul Jarrico
Cast Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon
Plot In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
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The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer Lamar Trotti, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Cast Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Plot Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher's murder.
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Rumer Godden, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson
Plot A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
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Spellbound (1945)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Ben Hecht, John Palmer, Hilary St George Saunders
Cast Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Plot A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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Director John Ford
Writer Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
Cast Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Plot At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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Gilda (1946)
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Director Charles Vidor
Writer E.A. Ellington, Jo Eisinger, Marion Parsonnet
Cast Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Plot A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
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Director Vincente Minnelli
Writer Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe, Sally Benson
Cast Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Plot Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
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Director John Ford, Lloyd Bacon
Writer Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller, Sam Hellman
Cast Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature
Plot After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.
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The Heiress (1949)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz, Henry James
Cast Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
Plot A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
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The Killers (1946)
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Anthony Veiller, Ernest Hemingway, John Huston
Cast Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Plot Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
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La terra trema aka The Earth Trembles (1948)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
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Die Feuerzangenbowle aka The Punch Bowl (1944)
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Director Helmut Weiss
Writer Heinrich Spoerl
Cast Heinz Rahmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak
Plot A successful writer, home-schooled in his youth, masquerades as a student at a secondary school to experience all the fun and pranks he missed out on.
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Jour de fete aka The Big Day (1949)
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Director Jacques Tati
Writer Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Rene Wheeler
Cast Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Plot A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
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Le silence de la mer aka The Silence of the Sea (1949)
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Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer Vercors, Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast Howard Vernon, Nicole Stephane, Jean-Marie Robain
Plot In occupied France, an elderly man and his niece are forced to give shelter to a German army lieutenant who seemingly loves their country and culture.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Director Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Writer Booth Tarkington, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
Cast Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello
Plot The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Lady Eve (1941)
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Director Preston Sturges
Writer Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Plot A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
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Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer Philip Dunne, R.A. Dick
Cast Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Plot In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
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The Stranger (1946)
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Director Orson Welles
Writer Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas, Decla Dunning
Cast Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Plot An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
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Suspicion (1941)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville
Cast Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Plot A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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Riso amaro aka Bitter Rice (1949)
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Director Giuseppe De Santis
Writer Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini
Cast Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano
Plot Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Georges de La Fouchardiere, Andre Mouezy-Eon, Dudley Nichols
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Plot A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
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Director Orson Welles
Writer Sherwood King, Orson Welles, William Castle
Cast Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
Plot Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
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Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Max Morise
Cast Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan
Plot A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
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Mrs. Miniver (1942)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton
Cast Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Plot A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton
Cast Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Plot On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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Adam's Rib (1949)
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Director George Cukor
Writer Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Pierre-Frana§ois Caille
Cast Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Plot Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
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Lifeboat (1944)
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling, Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Plot Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
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Sergeant York (1941)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch
Cast Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Plot A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Plot From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
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Director Tay Garnett
Writer Harry Ruskin, Niven Busch, James M. Cain
Cast Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Plot A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
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Now, Voyager (1942)
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Director Irving Rapper
Writer Casey Robinson, Olive Higgins Prouty
Cast Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Plot A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
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Director Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Writer Maya Deren
Cast Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Plot A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-s...
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The Wolf Man (1941)
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Director George Waggner
Writer Curt Siodmak
Cast Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy
Plot Upon his return to his father's estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.
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The Bishop's Wife (1947)
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Director Henry Koster
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, Leonardo Bercovici, Robert Nathan
Cast Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Plot A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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Director Michael Curtiz
Writer Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, Julius J. Epstein
Cast James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Plot The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
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The Little Foxes (1941)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker
Cast Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Plot The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Hamlet (1948)
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Director Laurence Olivier
Writer William Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier
Cast Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie
Plot Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
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Director David Lean
Writer Charles Dickens, David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Cast Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
Plot In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
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Dark Passage (1947)
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Director Delmer Daves
Writer Delmer Daves, David Goodis
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Plot A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
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Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
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Director Henry King
Writer Sy Bartlett, Beirne Lay Jr., Henry King
Cast Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill
Plot A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
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Cat People (1942)
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Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer DeWitt Bodeen
Cast Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith
Plot An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
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Ball of Fire (1941)
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe
Cast Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
Plot A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
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Fort Apache (1948)
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Director John Ford
Writer Frank S. Nugent, James Warner Bellah
Cast John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
Plot At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.
