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Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He’s welcome to leave. Or they’ll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner* Spencer Tracy (a 1955 Best Actor Oscar nominee for this film) plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he’s come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges (The Great Escape) ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy’s mission and the town’s grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town’s thugs and lap dogs. “I’m half horse, half alligator,” one says. They’ll find Macreedy is even tougher stuff.

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Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier star in a gritty urban drama about a highschool teacher who will not allow himself to be defeated by his toughinner city students ... even when he is assaulted and his pregnant wifeis threatened.This groundbreaking classic film shocked viewers by exposing the realityof America's schools and by featuring then-controversial rock 'n' rollin the soundtrack. Based on the bestseller by Evan Hunter.

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Jeremiah is hired by the sinister Roman to drive the beautiful and tormented Crystal. Although Jeremiah is warned not to get close, he helps Crystal escape Roman’s clutches. Outraged by her betrayal, Roman unleashes the psychopath, Bill, to hunt them down. When Crystal refuses to go back to Roman, she and Jeremiah begin a dangerous love affair on the run. But a darker secret burns inside her, and she struggles to hold it in. As Crystal’s feelings for Jeremiah grow stronger, she is faced with a deadly choice: she must fight the monster she’s becoming or kill the man with whom she has fallen in love.

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Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

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Screen legend Burt Reynolds leads a ragtag crew of treasure hunters in the thrilling adventure Impasse. When Pat Morrison (Reynolds, Gator) learns of a cache of gold hidden in the Philippines during World War II, he recruits the team of veterans who buried the treasure to lead him to the site. But the unreliable crew—including a disenchanted alcoholic (Clarke Gordon, Journey to Shiloh) and a bitter seaman (Lyle Bettger, All I Desire)—test Morrison’s patience. Complicating the mission is Morrison’s attraction to two women, played by Anne Francis (More Dead Than Alive) and Miko Mayama (The Hawaiians), who each have plans of their own.

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Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs. Christopher. Dick Powell (in his last film role before devoting himself to a hugely successful TV career) and Debbie Reynolds play the (maybe) mismatched couple in a big-hearted romantic comedy from animator-turned-director Frank Tashlin that makes merry use of its Yuletide setting.

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Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs. Christopher. Dick Powell (in his last film role before devoting himself to a hugely successful TV career) and Debbie Reynolds play the (maybe) mismatched couple in a big-hearted romantic comedy from animator-turned-director Frank Tashlin that makes merry use of its Yuletide setting.