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61) Palmy Days
Pub. Date
1931.
Description
The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
62) The Oscar
Pub. Date
1966.
Description
Oscar night. The crowd cheers Frankie Fane for the top award. Not far from him, sits the actor's best friend who knows that fame has been achieved by cynical manipulation of past events. Frankie deliberately leaked true stories about his disreputable life on the basis that they were falsehoods spread by his opponents. He hopes that the subsequent wave of public sympathy will sweep him to the Oscar... Nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Costume...
63) Safety Last
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him.
64) The Balloonatic
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
65) The Silent Enemy
Pub. Date
1930.
Description
A documentary showing us the life of an Indian tribe, who has to decide where to head next in order to find food which became rare. The situation is hardened by the fact two of the men both want to marry the Chief's daughter…
66) One Week
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
67) Arrowsmith
Pub. Date
1931.
Description
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
Academy Award winners George Burns and Walter Matthau star as Al Lewis and Willy Clark, the two former halves of a classic vaudeville comedy duo. Off stage they were bitter enemies, but on stage they were the hilarious SUNSHINE BOYS.They haven't spoken to each other for 20 years, but when Willy's nephew, Ben (Richard Benjamin) sells the pair to the network for a television special, all he has to do is get Al (Burns in an Oscar-winning role) and Willy...
69) Just a Gigolo
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
70) Wonder Man
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
In an instant, accountant Henry Pulling's dull life becomes a whirlwind adventure of old love affairs, espionage, kidnappings and more money than he has ever dreamed of when his Aunt Augusta takes him under her wing to add a lot of color to his gray existence in the madcap TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT.When Augusta (Academy and Tony Award winner Maggie Smith) sees her nephew, Henry (Alec McGowan), at her sister's funeral, the grand old dame with a wicked past...
72) Neighbors
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
73) Little Fugitive
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
An utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a seven-year-old boy is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York’s nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful....
Pub. Date
1978.
Description
Frank Pierson's energetic and ambitious film KING OF THE GYPSIES is a fascinating saga of three generations of a violent Romani family. Eric Roberts makes an impressive screen debut as Dave, grandson of the aging King Zharko, who is chosen by him to lead the clan at his death. Dave's only inclination is to join the American mainstream, but he knows that the mantle of Romani power cannot be taken lightly or denied. Based on the best-selling non-fiction...
75) The Three Ages
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. *"Superb three-part silent comedy." - Daniel Eagan, **Film...
Pub. Date
1960.
Description
Starring studio-era legends Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, IT STARTED IN NAPLES follows an American lawyer who travels to the Italian city to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, leaving their son Marrietto in the guardianship of an aunt he hardly knows. Though the two share a mutual suspicion towards one another at first, they eventually...
77) The High Sign
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
78) King of Kings
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
Portraying the birth, life and death of Jesus, this film tells one of the greatest stories in history of mankind, a life and teaching that form the basis of the Christian faith.
79) The Boat
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
80) The Blacksmith
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
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