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An ex-boxer now driving a cab has to hide from the police when his nagging wife is murdered by the jewel thief she had been having an affair with.

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A small-town college is thrown into chaos when Gracie (Allen) inherits it and becomes its new owner. Finding school dull, she hires vaudeville performers — among them Bob Hope, George Burns, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, and Robert Cummings — to teach the classes. With the campus in an uproar, the only thing left to do is sing and dance, in a musical comedy packed with classic Hollywood talent.

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An amnesiac veteran discovers he was a gangster and that the partner he cheated is after him.

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When reports of a clawed beast send hundreds of plantation workers fleeing into the Brazilian jungle, troubleshooter Rock Dean and cancer researcher Dr. Andrea Romar head up the Amazon to investigate the legend of Curucu. Their expedition — all shot on location — runs into headhunters, ritual dances and a very human scheme hiding behind the monster's claw. Curt Siodmak's jungle shocker was the film's first-ever home video release.

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Fresh from the Civil War, former Confederate captain Clay Fletcher (John Payne) hopes to settle into a quiet law practice in El Paso, Texas — but with a corrupt sheriff, a drunken judge and a crooked landowner running the town, he ends up organizing a vigilante group to fight them.

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A tuneful treasure chest full of more than a dozen Great American Songbook standards and top-tier production values, Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943) is a lavish, nostalgia-drenched showcase for beloved star Alice Faye as a vaudevillian who rises to stardom in the theatrical world of San Francisco’s bustling Barbary Coast, while romantically longing for handsome entrepreneur/mentor John Payne, regrettably distracted by the calculated charms of a Nob Hill socialite (Lynn Bari). Jack Oakie, June Havoc and Oscar-nominated Technicolor cinematography are also prime assets, as is the lilting Harry Warren/Mack Gordon Best Original Song Academy Award winner, “You’ll Never Know,” which became a wistful anthem of hope and longing for World War II-era audiences.

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Joe Rolfe is an ex-con trying to go straight with a job as a florist's deliveryman. But a gang led by a criminal mastermind robs an armored car using a van identical to his, and after narrowly avoiding arrest, Rolfe sets out on a determined search for the real thieves — with shocking results.

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A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she has received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

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A hard-boiled NYPD detective hunts the people responsible for the murders of his family and partner, only to uncover a violent conspiracy tied to a dangerous designer drug.

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Narrated by onscreen observer W. Somerset Maugham (Herbert Marshall), the tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran who finds he cannot settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life, leaving his distraught fiancée to seek solace with another man.