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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Cast James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Plot An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?
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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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Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Ben Hecht, Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg
Cast Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill
Plot Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him?
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer, Nelson Algren
Cast Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Plot A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer John Mortimer, Penelope Mortimer, Marryam Modell
Cast Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier
Plot A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
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Advise & Consent (1962)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Allen Drury, Wendell Mayes
Cast Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda
Plot The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.
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In Harm's Way (1965)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Wendell Mayes, James Bassett
Cast John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Plot A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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Angel Face (1952)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Frank S. Nugent, Oscar Millard, Chester Erskine
Cast Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Plot Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Exodus (1960)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris
Cast Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
Plot The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Harry Kleiner, Marty Holland
Cast Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
Plot A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.
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River of No Return (1954)
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Director Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
Writer Frank Fenton, Louis Lantz
Cast Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Plot The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
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Carmen Jones (1954)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Oscar Hammerstein II, Harry Kleiner, Prosper Merimee
Cast Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
Plot Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
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Bonjour tristesse (1958)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Arthur Laurents, Frana§oise Sagan
Cast Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr
Plot Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.
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Whirlpool (1950)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Ben Hecht, Andrew Solt, Guy Endore
Cast Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer
Plot A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
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Daisy Kenyon (1947)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer David Hertz, Elizabeth Janeway
Cast Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda
Plot A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.
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The Cardinal (1963)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Robert Dozier, Henry Morton Robinson, Ring Lardner Jr.
Cast Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider
Plot A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery, Ben Hecht
Cast Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy
Plot A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
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The Moon Is Blue (1953)
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Director Otto Preminger
Writer F. Hugh Herbert
Cast William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara
Plot Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
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Porgy and Bess (1959)
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Director Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash
Cast Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
Plot A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
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Forever Amber (1947)
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Director Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Writer Philip Dunne, Ring Lardner Jr., Jerome Cady
Cast Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene
Plot In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
