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Allison Hayes cuts one very fine, five-story figure as Nancy Archer, an affluent California housewife who encounters a stranded alien on a deserted highway and is zapped by it's "growth ray." Now the beauteous behemoth sets out to make trouble for her philandering husband (William Hudson) and his other women, in this classic sci-fi turkey. Co-stars Yvette Vickers, George Douglas. 66 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English DTS HD mono Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH).

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Douglas Sirk directs this lighthearted musical comedy of second chances, starring Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, and Gigi Perreau. In 1928, wealthy Samuel Fulton — an elderly man reflecting on the sweetheart he lost in his youth — decides that the family she left behind should inherit his fortune, but only if they prove worthy of it. Moving into their home as a penniless boarder, he quietly watches the middle-class Blaisdells react to a first small taste of his money. The windfall sets off comic chaos, and in the family's foolishness Fulton finds an unexpected redemption of his own. The score is packed with 1920s favorites — 'Tiger Rag,' 'When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along,' 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More,' and 'Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?' — and a young James Dean can be spotted, uncredited, at a soda fountain. A Technicolor delight.

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Created by Jacob Tierney from Rachel Reid's best-selling novel, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two of the biggest stars in Major League Ice Hockey, are bound together by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither fully understands. What starts as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies grows into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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Created by Jacob Tierney and based on Rachel Reid's best-selling novel, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two of the biggest stars in Major League Ice Hockey, are bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither fully understands; what begins as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies evolves into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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Created by Jacob Tierney from Rachel Reid's best-selling novel, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two of the biggest stars in Major League Ice Hockey, are bound together by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither fully understands. What starts as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies grows into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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Based on Rachel Reid's best-selling novel and created by Jacob Tierney, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) are two of Major League Ice Hockey's biggest stars, bound by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies evolves into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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Melodrama master John M. Stahl brings his exquisite restraint and almost spiritually pure visual style to this devastating, enduringly relevant story of mothers and daughters. The film explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one (Claudette Colbert) a working-class white woman who rises to the top of the business world, the other (Louise Beavers) her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter (Fredi Washington). It is this second relationship — attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly played by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington — that gives the film its transcendent emotional power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst's best-selling novel boldly confronts the complexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the limits of the American dream.

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Universal's two adaptations of Fannie Hurst's novel, together on one disc. In the 1934 version, widowed Bea Pullman builds a pancake-mix empire on a recipe from her housekeeper Delilah, whose light-skinned daughter Peola rejects her mother in order to pass for white. The 1959 remake tells the story through aspiring actress Lora Meredith and her housekeeper Annie Johnson, whose daughter Sarah Jane makes the same painful choice.

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Terri (Joyce Hyser, TV's "L.A. Law") blames sexism when her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship at the local newspaper. With the help of her kid brother, Buddy (Billy Jacoby), she masquerades as a guy at a rival school and enters the contest there. During her charade, "Terry the Boy" tangles with a vicious bully, Greg (William Zabka, The Karate Kid), and fends off an amorous classmate, Sandy (Sherilyn Fenn, TV's "Twin Peaks"). But when she falls for a handsome loner, Rick (Clayton Rohner, TV's "Murder One"), our hero/heroine must find a way to convince him that she's not JUST ONE OF THE GUYS.

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Legs waxed. Lips glossed. Gun ready. Meet Miss Congeniality. Sandra Bullock is Gracie Hart, the tomboyish FBI agent who poses as a beauty contestant to unmask a criminal at the Miss United States pageant. Michael Caine is featured as the harried consultant trying to turn this Dirty Harriet into a poised beauty. In Miss Congeniality 2 Armed and Fabulous, the undercover cover girl is feathered and funny, masquerading as a Las Vegas showgirl to rescue kidnapped friends. Gracie, crime, casinos, floorshows, even a Vegas pirate ship – they’re a sure bet for laughs!

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When a Russian circus saxophonist defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to his new life in America harder than he expected.