William Holden
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If youre looking for an array of Horror stories to sink your teeth into, look no further than Memento Mori...pay the Ferryman, and prepare to take the ride of your life.The title, Memento Mori, is Latin and literally means: "Remember you too must die." An ominous-sounding phrase, the saying derived from Puritan settlers who would often display tokens of death as a reminder to the living of the fragility of life...not to mention the eternal punishment...
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Patrick Foley is a rugged individualist who has spent his life roaming the world in a variety of professions and returns to Australia to find the remote valley where is was born. The spoiled city boy is stranded when his parents are killed in an accident. The relationship between the child and the man begins in distrust and resentment, but, forced to fend together for survival, a special magic starts to grow between them.
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Franklin Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second chance at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband's weaknesses and Dodd's motives. When Georgie appears to be dragging Frank down, Bernie tries to force her to...
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In Hong Kong in 1949, Mark Elliott (William Holden) is an American reporter covering the Chinese civil war. Undergoing a trial separation from his wife, he meets the beautiful Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones), a widowed physician from mainland China. As the pair fall in love, they encounter disapproval from both her family and his friends about their interracial romance. Although the film was a commercial success upon release, the casting of Jones in...
9) Sabrina
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Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
11) Network
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
13) The Wild Bunch
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In 1913, during the Mexican revolution, a gang disguised as U.S. soldiers raids a Texas border town. They are ambushed by the railroad company's hired gunmen. The crossfire kills as many townspeople as combatants.
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Mark Elliott is an American journalist stationed in the Orient during the Korean War. Han Suyin is a Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Chinese officer. The two meet in Hong Kong and are irresistably drawn to each other in spite--or perhaps partly because--of the different worlds they call home. Cultural obstacles prove insurmountable, however, when it comes to winning family approval for their relationship. When Elliott must travel away from Hong Kong...
15) Damien, Omen II
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Seven years have passed since Damien engineered the deaths of Ambassador Thorn and his wife. Damien leaves London to live with his uncle (William Holden) and his wife (Lee Grant), who have no inkling who, or what Damien really is. A shipment of artifacts dug up in Israel contains a clue to Damient's identity. But before the artifacts can be examined, Damien himself comes into a bit of knowledge.
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Based on an actual Civil War incident, The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern terrirotry to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. John Wayne is pitted against William Holden in the chaos of the War Between the States.
18) Born yesterday
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A millionaire junk dealer arranges for his unsophisticated girlfriend to take a course in "culture".
19) Sunset Boulevard
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The story of an aging film queen who prepares for her grand comeback to stardom.