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An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ..." My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" It is towards this climactic crossroads that the story of Jesus of Nazareth leads, and to which, at the final moment, it again looks back in triumphant retrospect. It is the anguishing crossroads where the eternal questions of faith and doubt become resolved.
2) Lonelyhearts
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Eager for a job, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) starts work as an advice-giving columnist. His editor, Shrike, (Robert Ryan)) takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence, (Myrna Loy) for past adultery, & assigning his employees journalistic jobs of little interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting a correspondent, Fay Doyle, (Dolores Hart) a self-pitying girl who makes a play for him.
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Widowed Old Man Matthews, (Walter Brennan) has lived his entire life as a farmer & moved his family of himself and his four youngsters, Deborah, Phineas, Abigail, & Susan (Natalie Wood in a featured role), to a just purchased farm following the ecological demise of their last farm. He has a "my way or the highway" mentality about most things in life, most specifically about running a farm.
4) Rain
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A boat arrives carrying two couples, the Davidsons (who are missionaries), the MacPhails and a prostitute named Sadie Thompson gets stranded on the island due to a possible Cholera outbreak on-board. Sadie spends her time "partying" with the American soldiers stationed on the island. The Preacher, Alfred Davidson soon becomes unhinged and thus begins a series of surprising events which culminate in disaster.
5) Marty
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Marty Pilletti, (Rod Steiger) is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers & sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl & get married. However, he has low esteem & feels no one wants him...That all changes at a dance where he meets Clara, (Nancy Marchand, of "The Sopranos" fame).
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A Martian lands his saucer in a Quebec town on Christmas Eve where his appearance bewilders the locals. Two children find his dropped flying wand. They befriend the Martian and he showers delights on them. They get their uncle to help repair the Martian's flying saucer and he takes them for a ride around the world. The Martian then leads the police on a merry chase with his otherworldly powers.
9) Sex Madness
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This exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
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Filmed during Cash's concert tour of the US in the late Sixties, this film offers a carefully airbrushed account of the star's life on and off stage. While attracting huge audiences wherever he goes, as well as winning awards, he remains eminently normal, the kind of man who willingly signs autographs, listens to pieces of doggerel composed by adoring fans, and poses for innumerable photos
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An alcoholic, falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. The drama depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage due to alcoholism as ambitious ad man Joe Clay (Robertson) gets his wife Kristen to join him in drinking bouts that soon begin to destroy their lives...This is the highly acclaimed 1958 live TV version.
13) Don Juan
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One thing Don Juan de Marana (John Barrymore) learned from his father, is women gave you three things: life, disillusionment, and death. Don Juan settled in Rome and in 16th Century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias (Warner Oland & Estelle Taylor). It will be the one who got away that haunts him.
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A gang led by banker Calvin Drake plans to drive off ranchers from their land to profit from a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.
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This film celebrating the inspiring events of Jesus' last days is an adaptation taken directly from The New Testament. Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts the story of Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the crucifixion, and his appearance before Mary Magdalene.
18) Battle of Midway
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Filmed as it happened; On June 4-6, 1942, a large Japanese force attempted to capture Midway Island in the Pacific but was defeated by U.S. forces with a loss ratio of 4:1. On hand was a crew of naval photographers; their documentary footage was edited together with narration by actors. The film covers the attack on Midway, aerial footage, the search for survivors, and aftermath of the battle.
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A wonderful retelling of the Nativity story in both song and words from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants. General Electric Theater released a new story with different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electrics Department of Public Relations. Ronald Reagan appears with his family at Christmas.
20) Anna Lucasta
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When wild child Anna Lucasta (Eartha Kitt), is banished from the family home by her self-righteous father, she falls into prostitution and into the arms of streetwise sailor Danny Johnson (Sammy Davis, Jr.). But after she shocks them all by finally finding her true love with a young suitor, her unforgiving father sets a vengeful plan in motion to remind his daughter of her sordid past.
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