Michael Curtiz
3) Casablanca
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The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
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After being gone for several years and believed dead, a woman explorer returns to find her husband recently remarried; musical dramatization of the life of Cole Porter; a playboy is sentenced by a judge to court her younger sister, a situation leading tounexpected romantic complications; a frustrated New Yorker decides to build a dream house out in the country, but one mishap leads to another before it is finished.
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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the...
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Calamity Jane: Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too darned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin', tootin' big way when...
10) White Christmas
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Two talented song-and-dance men team with a sister act to save the Vermont inn of a retired army general.
11) The comancheros
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In this explosive and absorbing wild west adventure, John Wayne stars as Captain Cutter, a fearless Texas Ranger determined to crush a violent gang of gunrunners and theives known as The Comancheros.
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Williams is a big galoot of a coach who has a big heart when it comes to his young daughter. Williams has been banned from the major conferences and is making ends meet as an oddsmaker. Then tiny independent College of St. Anthony comes calling and Williams takes the job in the hopes of making the school profitable by establishing a top football program.
14) Mildred Pierce
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Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
15) The Comancheros
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John Wayne stars as Captain Cutter, a fearless Texas Ranger determined to crush a violent gang of gunrunners and thieves known as Comancheros. Through an unlikely turn of events, Cutter enlists the help of his own prisoners to accomplish his mission
16) Santa Fe trail
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Follows the lives of Jeb Stuart (Flynn), George Custer (Reagan) and other characters in the years before the Civil War. The West Point graduates must hunt down abolitionist raider John Brown. Their conflict is deepened by their differing views over the issue of slavery and Brown's abolitionist cause. Friendship and dedication to duty carry them through but the storm clouds of Civil War can be seen on the horizon.
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Huckleberry Finn: Always in a bind, Huckleberry Finn (Ron Howard) has learned to think on his feet. When his drunken father kidnaps him, Huck fakes his own death and escapes down the wild Mississippi. While on the run, Huck teams up with his old friend, Jim, a slave headed to free territory. Together they encounter every kind of adventure imaginable -- from a hoax involving a pair of lying crooks, to hunters looking for the runaway Jim, and even...