A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
(1945) Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Classic Christmas Movies
This DVD contains 3 of the best loved Christmas movies. It is a very good buy. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) A Christmas Carol (Sim) (1951)
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Flim Flam Man
(1967) Mordecai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a flim flam man) who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protege and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot pursuit of the pair and rich girl Bonnie Lee Packard (Sue Lyon) becomes romantically involved with Curley and helps the fleeing duo stay one step ahead of the sheriff. The flim-flam man, dressed, as a minister, and his pupil, dressed as an accident victim, steal a car and lead the sheriff on a brilliantly photographed chase down the sidewalks and through the watermelon wagons of the South.
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Houdini
(1953) Houdini is a biographical film about the life of the magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. The film details a highly fictional account of Harry Houdini's life. The film follows his most dangerous stunts and magic tricks along with his love Bess Houdini. The death of the magician is depicted in the film as a failure to escape the Chinese Water Torture Cell; in real life Houdini died of peritonitis due to being punched in the stomach.
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It Happens Every Spring
(1949) A college professor, Vernon Simpson (played by Ray Milland) is working on a long term experiment to repel bugs, when a baseball comes through the window destroying all his glassware. Realizing that all his work is ruined and that he can't marry his sweetheart Deborah (Jean Peters) he is very upset. However Vernon discovers that the resultant fluid causes a baseball to be repelled by wood. Suddenly he realizes the possibilities and takes a leave of absence to go to St. Louis to pitch in the big leagues where he becomes a star (King Kelly) and propels the team to a World Series appearance.
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Kiss of Death
(1947) Victor Mature plays Nick Bianco, a cheap crook who commits a Christmastime jewelry store heist with his gang, and manages to get the rap while the others slip by the police unnoticed. Nick refuses to testify on the others, and gets sent up the river for 20 years for robbery. Before he goes to prison, he's assured by the criminal element that his wife and children will be taken care of while he's behind bars (thanks in no small part to his refusal to testify), but this is a blatant lie: during his incarceration, he learns that the family has gone broke, his wife committed suicide and his children have been sent to an orphanage. Furious, Nick summons district attorney Louie d'Angelo (Brian Donlevy) and makes an unusual deal: parole, in exchange for his willingness to squeal on the others. In this film Richard Widmark plays a psychopathic killer to perfection.
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Laura
(1944) New York City police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of beautiful and highly successful advertising executive Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). He interviews charismatic newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), an imperious, decadent dandy who relates how he met Laura, became her mentor, and used his considerable influence and fame to advance her career. Through the testimony of her friends and the reading of her letters and diary, McPherson comes to know Laura and slowly becomes obsessed with her, so much so Lydecker accuses him of falling in love with the dead woman. When Laura turns up alive all hell breaks loose.
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*****NEW Little Fugitive
(1953) Joey Norton, seven years old, lives with his older brother Lennie in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Brooklyn. Joey is too small to be taken seriously by Lennie and Lennie's friends.
One day, while their mother is away visiting he