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In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
43) Out of the past
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A one-time private investigator walks the straight and narrow of small-town life until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back into the troubles he'd left behind.
46) The wrong man
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2004
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The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
47) Ziegfeld girl
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Susan Gallagher leaves her vaudevillian father to climb the ladder of stardom; Sheila Regan drops her loyal beau, Gilbert Young for socialite Geoffrey Collins, and Young resorts to bootlegging to earn the money to win Regan back; and the exotic Sandra Kolter nearly destroys her marriage with her struggling violinist husband. Now, as part of the most glamorous show ever staged, these ladies have attained their dreams.
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Now back in San Francisco after their holiday in New York, Nick and Nora Charles find themselves trying to solve another mystery. Nora's cousin Selma is accused of having murdered her husband, but for Nick it's clear that she is not the murderer and he starts to investigate, supported by Nora and Asta.
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Two childhood friends grow up and go their separate ways--one a criminal and the other a parish priest. Rocky Sullivan returns to his old neighborhood to find his lawless life style idolized by the young hoodlums there. Jerry Connelly, the parish priest sees his hard work turn unavailing because of Rocky's corruptive influence.
50) Another Thin Man
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Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional vivants Nick & Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood.
52) Dark passage
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A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
53) Dinner at eight
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A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
54) Fury
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A once decent man becomes ruthless and bitter when he's falsely accused of a crime and becomes a target for a lynch mob. He escapes, but refuses to let his survival be known, so his attackers can be charged with murder.
56) Holiday affair
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"Love is even lovelier during the holidays. Even though he recently lost his job as a department-store clerk, Steve Mason buys an electric train set for a child he scarcely knows. It must be Christmastime. ... The boy's war-widow mom notes the gesture, and she's drawn to the handsome stranger. But will she abandon the security that comes from dating a prosperous attorney for the charm of the unemployed man who puts his money where his heart is?" --...
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The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps while wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds, " Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. But dance and sing she did. Day plays a singer who arrives in New York never dreaming it will begin an alternately funny and heartfelt shot at stardom on the Great White Way.
58) Mister Roberts
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A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
59) Papillon
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A criminal, sent to prison on Devil's Island, begins at once to engineer his escape in this portrayal of prison life.
60) Queen Christina
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Follows the life of Queen Christina of Sweden as she makes the decision to give up her throne and marry her lover, the ambassador from Spain.
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