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Hometown best friends Jack (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) and David (Richard Arlen) compete for the affection of a gorgeous dame (Jobyna Ralston), though Jack doesn't realise that girl next door Mary Preston (Clara Bow) has eyes for him as well.

But World War I is soon upon them, so the boys are off to France to fight against the Germans. Meanwhile, Mary follows Jack into enemy lines as a nurse.

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Based on a true story, 'The Long Gray Line' was largely filmed on location at West Point itself. Tyrone Power stars as Marty Maher, an Irish immigrant fresh off the boat who takes a menial job as a servant at the elite West Point Academy.

West Point, however, has a way of recognising the best in a man and Maher finds himself joining the army and becoming one of the best-loved instructors ever to serve at the Academy. Along the way, he meets and romances fellow immigrant Mary O'Donnell (Maureen O'Hara). The loving couple find themselves acting as surrogate parents to generations of raw young men destined to become America's finest leaders - including a teenage Dwight D. Eisenhower (Harry Carey Jr.). It is a career that Maher will cherish for 50 years, but one that will ultimately end in heartbreak...

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James Cagney is C.R. "Mac" MacNamara, a top soft drinks executive shipped off to (then West) Berlin and told to keep an eye on his boss' 17-year-old Atlanta socialite daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) while she visits Germany.

Scarlett's tour seems endless, and Mac discovers she's fallen for a (then East) Berlin communist agitator and the young couple are bound for Moscow! Mac has to bust up the burgeoning romance before his boss learns the truth, all the while dealing with his wife Phyllis (Arlene Francis) and her own impatience with German living.

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A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, 'Here Comes Mr. Jordan' stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident.

He finds himself in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that his death was a clerical error, and that he can return to Earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) financier - whose soul could use a transplant.

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The moral foundation of a small Texas town is torn apart in this explosive drama about power and greed, starring Marlon Brando, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Sheriff Calder (Brando) isn't the only person chasing Bubber Reeves (Redford) when he escapes from prison.

Oil and cattle baron Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wants Bubber out of the way to cover up the love affair his son Jason is having with Bubber's wife (Fonda). The Chase is on. When bigotry and booze propel the townsfolk into a vigilante mob, Calder's wife (Dickinson) tries to convince her husband that he doesn't have to bring Bubber in alive. But the sheriff is fighting for justice and he won't be stopped until the shattering climax.

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One of the great films by Stanley Donen after the studio era had come to a close, 'Two for the Road' was a break-off with the old system, one which allowed Donen to further stretch his art, aided by screenwriter Frederic Raphael (Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, John Schlesinger's Darling), in

this tale of a couple voluntarily stretching themselves through the long period of their relationship. Portrayed in fragments that span the couple's time together in marriage, 'Two for the Road' runs the course of a relationship (between Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) that finds a circumstantial come-together escalate into newlywed-status and, through a series of travails, into the serious situation of bearing a daughter. The disturbance of marriage, and/or life, is chronicled from here on.

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John Gavin plays Ernst Graber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough.

He falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver) activating a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love, even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.

On his way home to West Texas, Tom Buchanan (Randolph Scott) rides into the Californian border town of Agry, and into a feud between several members of the Agry family. In helping out a Mexican seeking revenge on one of them, Buchanan finds himself against the whole family.

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Written by Irving Stone, whose popular biographical novels would inspire such films as Vincente Minnelli's 'Lust for Life' and Carol Reed's 'The Agony and Ecstasy'; 'Magnificent Doll' traces Madison's journey to the White House from her youth in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War to the

famed episode in which, during the Battle of Bladensburg, she refused the leave her exalted residence without a portrait of George Washington. In between she is wooed by two great men of American politics, Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and his colleague, James Madison (Burgess Meredith).

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Nightclub dancer Rusty (Rita Hayworth) has a happy life performing at her boyfriend Danny's (Gene Kelly) club in Brooklyn, but her whole world changes once she wins a prestigious Cover Girl contest arranged by a wealthy magazine editor (Otto Kruger).

Rusty soon becomes a Broadway sensation, but is fame and fortune a substitute for true love?

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When the Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) transfers the services of Ruggles (Charles Laughton), his immaculate English valet, to Egbert Floud (Charlie Ruggles), a wealthy, brash American, the repercussions prove more dramatic than anyone could have anticipated.

Relocating to Red Gap, Washington, Ruggles slowly overcomes his disconcertment as he encounters new alliances, enemies, the route to independence, and, possibly, love.

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One of Hollywood's greatest directors teams with a cast of incredible screen legends for this bold, sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries.

As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves.

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"Speedy" was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd - and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character', this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job.

He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn streetcar, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather. From its joyous visit to Coney Island to its incredible Babe Ruth cameo to its hair-raising climactic stunts on the city's streets, Speedy is an out-of-control love letter to New York that will have you grinning from ear to ear.

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Mann's film tells of Jeff Webster (James Stewart) and his sidekick Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan), two stoic adventurers driving cattle to market from Wyoming to Canada who become at loggerheads with a corrupt judge (John McIntire) and his henchmen.

Ruth Roman (Strangers on a Train) plays a sultry saloon keeper who falls for Stewart, teaming up with him to take on the errant lawman.

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Regina (Audrey Hepburn) is about to divorce her husband when he is found murdered. Shortly before his death he had been converting all of his goods into cash, which has also disappeared.

Enter onto the scene Peter Joshua (Cary Grant), seemingly interested in Regina but really more interested in the whereabouts of her late husband's money. He is not alone, for there are former partners of her husband's also on the trail…