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In Old Chicago
In Old Chicago
(PG)
1937
The story centres on the OLeary family pioneer settlers whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in bustling Chicago. After Jack gets elected mayor with the help of his popular brother Dion the two lock horns over the future of Chicagos slums. Using his cabaret singer wife as a pawn in thier dispute Dion accelerates their intense rivalry as the whole town takes sides. It is not until a massive fire wipes out all of old Chicago that the OLearys lives are changed forever.
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1937
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Jezebel
Jezebel
(PG)
1938
Bette Davis was unhappy when Warner Bros. refused to loan her out to star in Gone With The Wind. So Jack Warner gave her a Southern Belle role in Jezebel - and she gave a fiery performance that won 1938's Best Actress Academy Award. Davis plays Julie, an arrogant New Orleans beauty, whose attempts to goad fiancé Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda) to jealousy backfire. When Pres weds another woman, Julie's vengeance explodes, destroying more than one life. Jezebel is also noted for its sumptuous sets and costumes, Fay Bainter's Oscar-winning performance and William Wyler's vivid direction, highlighted by a horrifying recreation of a yellow fever epidemic. But the film's greatest strength is...

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1938
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Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind
(PG)
1939
David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone with the Wind is "the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking," Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight said. And in Maltin's view, "it looks better than it has in years." This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), and its immortal characters Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), Rhett (Clark Gable), Ashley (Leslie Howard), Melanie (Olivia de Havilland), Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) populate an epic story of enduring appeal across generations. Judged by many to be the greatest movie of all time, Gone with the Wind now comes home in its best edition...

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1939
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
(PG)
1940
Following a prison term he served for manslaughter, Tom Joad returns to find his family homestead overwhelmed by weather and the greed of the banking industry. With little work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land - California. But the arduous trip and harsh living conditions they encounter offer little hope, and family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath (PG)

 

1940
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Mrs. Miniver
Mrs. Miniver
(PG)
1942
The moving wartime drama that won the hearts of nations over to Britain's cause and seven Oscars including Best Picture. Keeping the homefires burning, the Miniver family learn to cope with fear, constant bombing raids and grim overseas news about loved ones. But when valiant Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) captures a German pilot, the stark reality of war arrives on her doorstep.

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1942
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(PG)
1943
Based on the best-selling, controversial novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The story follows Robert Jordan (Cooper), an American demolition expert who lends his unique abilities to the anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors that includes the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Oscar-winning performance), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff) and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness, an interdependence, that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest...

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1943
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The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge
(PG)
1948
W. Somerset Maughaum’s acclaimed bestselling novel was first brought to the screen in 1946, starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter and Clifton Webb. Delivering a strong dramatic performance that made the critics sit up and accept him ‘seriously’, Power portrays Larry Darrell, a flyer who returns from World War I desperately seeking spiritual peace. Rejecting the materially comfortable world of his fiance (Tierney), he journeys round the world on an odyssey for truth that takes him from the dingy back alleys of Paris to the shimmering mountain tops of the Himalayas.
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1948
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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement
(G)
1947
Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zannuck caused a sensation with "the most spellbinding ever put on celluloid" (Hollywood Reporter), recipient of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. One of the first films to directly tackle racial prejudice, this acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z. Hobson's bestseller stars Gregory Peck as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of relgious intolerance. Dorothy Maguire, John Garfield, Dean Stockwell, and Jane Havoc also star in this post World War II classic.

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1947
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Key Largo
Key Largo
(PG)
1948
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award-winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted, bozzy moll. In Huston's hands, it becomes a...

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1948
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All the King's Men
All the King's Men
(PG)
1949
Willie Starks (Broderick Crawford) is a model politician -- until he's corrupted by the very system he tries to reform. Based on the cautionary Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King's Men was nominated for seven Academy Awards; it won Best Picture, as well as Best Actor and Actress for stars Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (later the voice of the possessed Regan in The Exorcist).

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1949
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
(M)
1951
This is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. Catch all of the classic - nominated for 12 Academy Awards - including Best Picture and winner of 4 - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire (M)

 

1951
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From Here To Eternity
From Here To Eternity
(PG)
1953
In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt ( Montgomery Clift from A PLACE IN THE SUN ) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers. His friend Maggio ( Frank Sinatra from THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM ) tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden ( Burt Lancaster from ELMER GANTRY ) and Karen Holmes ( Deborah Kerr from SEPARATE TABLES ) tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Winner of eight Oscars, including Best...
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1953
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On The Waterfront
On The Waterfront
(PG)
1954
Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award ® winner for Best Film. Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando from THE GODFATHER) could have been a contender, but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb from THE EXORCIST) on the gang-ridden waterfront. Terry is guilt-stricken, however, when he lures a rebellious worker to his death. But it takes the love of Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint from NORTH BY NORTHWEST), the dead man's sister, to show Terry how low he has fallen. When his crooked brother Charley the Gent (Rod Steiger from IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT) is brutally murdered for refusing to kill him, Terry battles to...

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1954
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East of Eden
East of Eden
(PG)
1955
Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favoured brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris, Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations.* Among the movie's stellar performances, Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress.
East of Eden
East of Eden (PG)

 

1955
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Written on the Wind
Written on the Wind
(PG)
1956
Bathed in lurid Technicolour, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features a all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.
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Written on the Wind (PG)

 

1956
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Sayonara
Sayonara
(PG)
1957
Gruver, an Army major during the Korean War, finds that his relationship with his fiancee has soured. So when he meets an alluring Japanese performer, he happily allows romance to blossom. But the military, and society in general, don't look kindly on an interracial relationships, and the lovers must constantly contend with distrust and prejudice.

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1957
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
(G)
1959
George Stevens directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who hid in an attic with her family during the Nazi occupation. When Holland was invaded by the Germans in 1942, some of the Jewish refugees attempted to survive the war by hiding out, aided by sympathetic Dutch nationals. The Frank family hid above a spice business at 263 Prinzengracht, accompanied by a neighbouring family the Van Daans and another man named Mr. Dussell. The film plays through the eyes of the Frank’s youngest daughter Anne (Millie Perkins) and the diary she kept documenting her captivity and telling of her struggle to cope with such...
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The Diary of Anne Frank (G)

 

1959
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West Side Story
West Side Story
(PG)
1961
In retelling the Romeo and Juliet tragedy, West Side Story won 10 Oscars. But instead of Verona's warring Montagues and Capulets, it's the Sharks vs. the Jets, rival gangs battling for turf on the streets of 1950s New York City. When Jet Tony (Richard Beymer) falls for Shark Maria (Natalie Wood), the only way to solve their dilemma is through a rumble in the asphalt jungle.

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1961
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
(M)
1962
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, THE MIRACLE WORKER is a gripping and inspiring story of the battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller (a brilliant Patty Duke) is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft) comes to help the little girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal...

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1962
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Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek
(M)
1964
Michael Cacoyannis's powerful film starring Anthony Quinn garnered seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba, a boisterous, gregarious peasant with an astonishing love for life. When Zorba agrees to work at Basil's recently inherited abandoned mine, it is the beginning of a lesson for the young man as he gradually moves from an observer of the world to a participant. This acclaimed classic co-stars Irene Papas and Lila Kedrova in an Oscar–winning performance.
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek (M)

 

1964

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