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Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
43) The Scarecrow
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
44) Strike Me Pink
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
45) Heritage
Pub. Date
1935.
Description
An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
46) Almost a Bride
Pub. Date
1949.
Description
A teenage girl named Corliss (Shirley Temple) who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way around the town in this classic comedy.
47) The Odd Couple
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
48) Seven Chances
Pub. Date
1925.
Description
Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o’clock that evening he will inherit {dollar}7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish. *"a work of relentless hilarity and visual invention of another order, highlighted by a majestic chase scene.."...
49) Up in Arms
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Early cinematic pioneers directed these seven charming, emotional silent films based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Considered a "lowbrow" medium at the time, the movie industry sought to elevate its status by immortalizing the Bard's classics and casting the greatest actors of the day. As most of these early photoplays were only one or two reels long, adapting the Bill's work proved both challenging and inspiring. Whatever these films gave...
51) Save the Tiger
Pub. Date
1973.
Description
Jack Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. Winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Lemmon) and nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Gilford) and Best Adapted Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Supporting...
52) The Frozen North
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
53) College
Pub. Date
1927.
Description
Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. *"Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue,...
Pub. Date
1949.
Description
The glorious epic style of Cecil B. DeMille is exemplified in this story of the Bible's legendary strongman and the woman who seduces and betrays him. Victor Mature is the classic Samson, muscular and fearless in his barehanded battle with a lion, his single-handed assault on a thousand Philistine soldiers, his struggle with a giant, and the spectacular Old Testament climax where he pulls down the pagan temple. The enormous cast and the splendor of...
56) Cops
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
57) The Intruder
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A successful syndicated cartoonist is dedicated to living the bachelor life, complete with a devoted English butler-valet-confidante...until he awakens one morning after a wild stag party, only to discover that he married the sexy, sensual Italian beauty who popped out of the cake and barely speaks English. What's more...she doesn't believe in divorce. Now, how does the ultimate bachelor get rid of her? With the perfect murder scheme, of course!
59) Hard Luck
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
60) Palmy Days
Pub. Date
1931.
Description
The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
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