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Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), the Camille of this sumptuous romance based on the enduring Alexandre Dumas story. Garbo's aloof mystique and alabaster beauty illuminate this George Cukor-directed film featuring what many call her finest performance. Her Camille is a movie paragon of true love found (in suitor Armand Duval, memorably played by Robert Taylor), then sacrificed for a greater good. Garbo earned an Academy Award nomination and the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award for her memorable work.

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Blake Edwards (Pink Panther films, Victor/Victoria) directs a medical mystery thriller based on a novel written by Michael Crichton ("ER," Jurassic Park). When pathologist Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) brings his West-Coast counterculture ways to a Boston hospital, he quickly causes a stir. But things only become more tense when the daughter of one of his new colleagues dies after an illegal abortion--and Dr. Carey uses his forensic skills to defend the doctor accused of causing the girl's death.

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times " Charles Dickens' tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution comes to the screen in a sumptuous film version by the producer famed for nurturing sprawling literary works: David O. Selznick (David Copperfield, Anna Karenina, Gone with the