William Holden
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Tortured into making a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base.
At the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.
22) The wild bunch
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The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.
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A princess on an official visit to Rome slips away without notice and falls in love with a newspaperman; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines; after a stint in Paris, a chauffeur's daughter transforms from a shy, awkward girl into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of a wealthy family's sons; Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl,...
27) Picnic
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The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
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Any Johhny Reb who tries to escape the Union prison outpost at Fort Bravo faces the unforgiving Arizona Territory desert stretching out before him ... and the even more unforgiving pursuit of Bravo's resolute Captain Roper. Yet there's a common foe that may unite the Civil War rivals: the fierce Mescalero horsemen waging guerilla war against Blue and Gray alike.
31) Sunset Blvd
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Pursued by creditors, Joe swerves into a driveway of a seemingly abandoned Sunset Boulevard mansion. He finds Norma, an ex-screen queen dreaming of a dramatic comeback and her husband/servant living there. She takes a fancy to Joe and, learning that he is a scriptwriter, persuades him to help her with her comeback screenplay. Being broke he accepts. He falls in love with a young script reader, but Norma breaks up their romance. Thinking she is mad,...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer ; Funny face: a fashion photographer pulls a shy Greenwich Village bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris -- My fair lady: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady -- Paris when it sizzles:...
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Das Boot : "It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic: to harass and destroy English shipping."
From Here to Eternity : "Passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near."
The Bridge on the River Kwai : "When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it."
The Guns of Navarone :...