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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Edwin L. Marin

In this one-of-a-kind feature, Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is charged with investigating the slayings of members of an organization known as "The Scarlet Ring". When...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Thomas Mitchell

This classic tale from author Mark Twain was brought to the small screen for the first time in the 1950's and features Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine. This classic novel features the tales of...

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Algiers
Algiers
John Cromwell

Meet Pepe Le Moko, a master thief who fled his native France with a treasure trove of gems. For two years now he has lived in the infamous Casbah section of Algiers, ruling its tangled streets with...

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Appointment in Tokyo
Appointment in Tokyo
Appointment at Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur

This World War II documentary covers the American war effort in the Pacific from the fall of Bataan and the Philippines to the surrender of Japan on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri. Covering events...

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As You Like It
As You Like It
Paul Czinner

This classic comedy by William Shakespeare comes to the screen with Sir Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. Rosalind is in love with Orlando, who doesn't take notice of...

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The Boat
The Boat
Buster Keaton Festival
Buster Keaton

This silent classic has our hero (Buster Keaton) completing his basement project, a hand-made boat, and he is eager to get it out and onto the water for him and his family to enjoy. Unfortunately,...

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Brideless Groom
Brideless Groom
Edward Bernds

Shemp is a lowly voice teacher who stands to inherit a fortune, but there's a catch. To qualify for his inheritance, he must marry someone by six o'clock, but no girl wants to accept his proposal....

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene

The arrival of a traveling carnival coincides with a string of mysterious deaths in a small German town. When the friend and romantic rival of one man is found murdered, suspicion falls immediately...

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Cyrano De Bergerac
Cyrano De Bergerac
Michael Gordon

This screen adaptation of the Edmund Rostand novel features Jose Ferrer reprising his Tony award-winning role as Cyrano, the swashbuckling swordsman and poet who fears he will never be loved due to...

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Daydreams
Daydreams
Buster Keaton Festival
Eddie Cline

This Buster Keaton classic has him as the suitor to a young girl who swears to her father that he will go the big city and make a success of himself; otherwise he'll return home to shoot himself....

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