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Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
4) Zaza
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A street urchin turned vivacious French showgirl, Gloria Swanson is radiant in this role as the heroine who falls in love with a married man.
6) Le sacrifice
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As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander, news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by director Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home.
7) Stage struck
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Jenny Hagen is a diner waitress who fantasizes about a life on stage. Her heart belongs to Orme Wilson, an expert pancake flipper, who only has eyes for the women in movie magazines. When a river showboat comes to town, its star performer Lillian Lyons entrances him. Inflamed with jealousy, Jenny is determined to get on stage herself, by any means necessary.
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Jimmie Blacksmith is a young Aboriginal half-caste raised in rural Australia at the turn-of-the-century, a boy initiated by his tribe but also educated by a stern Methodist minister. Looking to gain respectability in white society, Jimmie finds a white bride while performing back-breaking work on local farms; but cannot escape his skin color, suffering ongoing racism and oppression. Discovering that he may not be the father of his wife's child, and...
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"Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a rundown shack. On top of that, he learns that the object of his affection is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick set pieces that involve an exploding dam, raging waterfall, and a primitive...
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Godard himself appears as doddering Uncle Jean, who lends his house to his niece Carmen while he is recovering in a mental institution. Carmen and her gang of youthful pals stage a bloody robbery of a bank, during which she falls in love with one of the security guards. Her gang is in the planning stages of an even bigger crime, the kidnapping of an industrialist, using the shooting of a documentary on luxury hotels as a pretext.
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When Chief Inspector Tanner arrives at the house of Lord and Lady Lebanon to investigate the murder of their chauffeur, he quickly notices a lot of strange things about the household; when a priceless Buddhist artefact is stolen from a Japanese temple, a popular radio personality accidentally becomes involved in the case; a gambler falls in love with a young woman and believes she is bringing him luck, but his gambling rival also becomes interested...
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"Urged by famous airman Ellissen, the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste"--C.f. Internet movie database (viewed June 22, 2004).
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German heartthrob Hans Albers stars as Hannes, a former sailor who now works as an entertainer, playing his accordion in the streets and cabarets of the garish red light district of Hamburg. When he meets a headstrong young woman, Hannes's passions are reawakened, and he is torn between his love for Gisa and the beckoning call of the sea.
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