Arthur Kennedy
2) Elmer Gantry
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English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
4) Champion
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English
Formats
Description
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
5) High Sierra
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English
Description
A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side, a side that will ultimately be his downfall.
6) Nevada Smith
Series
Language
English
Description
Nevada Smith is a rugged innocent boy born during the 1890s California gold rush to a Native American mother and white father. When he finds his parents murdered by vicious killers, he sets out to track them down.
8) Barabbas
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulphur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas himself faces crucifixion, that he discovers his faith....
9) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
12) Fantastic voyage
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English
Description
An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
15) Trial
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English
Description
A hispanic boy is accused of killing a white girl. Although the boy is innocent, his trial is more about his race than the evidence. So as the hearing begins, law professor David Blake, and attorney Barney Castle, work to represent the boy. The professor tries to save his life, while the attorney hopes to use the boy's hanging as a tool to ignite the Communist party.
17) The window
Series
Language
English
Description
Tommy habitually tells tall tales and nobody believes him when he witnesses a murder through a tenement window.
19) A summer place
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English
Description
An enduring favorite about desire and tumult at an elite Maine resort. Johnny Hunter is strong, handsome and unshakably devoted to 17-year-old pixiesh Molly, a woman-child struggling to cope with adult emotions. All of the adults are also romantically at odds. As they all discover, love will find a way. They've already found the locale: a summer place.
20) Rancho Notorious
Series
Language
English
Description
A western, set in the 1870s, which dramatizes the ballad The legend of Chuck-A-Luck. The search of a Wyoming cowboy for his fiancée's murderer leads him to a ranch-hideaway for bandits which is operated by an ex-saloon entertainer.