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Criterion collection volume 505
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DVD DRAMA MAKE
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DVD DRAMA MAKE
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After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five children will take them in together.
Series
Studio classic volume 17
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DVD DRAMA GRAPES
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DVD DRAMA GRAPES
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A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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DVD DRAMA CINDERELLA
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DVD DRAMA CINDERELLA
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DVD DRAMA CINDERELLA
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DVD DRAMA CINDERELLA
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During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
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DVD DRAMA AMERICAN
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DVD DRAMA AMERICAN
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Bank president Thomas Dickson battles his board of directors in order to keep making loans to his hard-pressed clientele. When dire circumstances threaten the bank's solvency, chief teller Matt Brown and his fiancee rally around the boss, but will it be too little too late?
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Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to movies to escape the realities of the Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The purple rose of Cairo." When the leading man Tom Baxter decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
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CD NOVEL GRUEN
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CD NOVEL GRUEN
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PLAYAWAY GRUEN
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PLAYAWAY GRUEN
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...