John Farrow

John Farrow

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Villiers Farrow, CBE (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Farrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Farrow
  • Popularity: 3.685
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1904-02-10
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  • 1953
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    King of the Khyber Rifles

    King of the Khyber Rifles

    5.7 1953 HD

    Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an...

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  • 1959
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    Forbidden Island

    Forbidden Island

    5.7 1959 HD

    Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

    Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

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  • 1950
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    Where Danger Lives

    Where Danger Lives

    6.3 1950 HD

    A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to...

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  • 1953
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    Hondo

    Hondo

    6.5 1953 HD

    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

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  • 1957
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    The Unholy Wife

    The Unholy Wife

    4.3 1957 HD

    A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they...

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  • 1949
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    Alias Nick Beal

    Alias Nick Beal

    6.8 1949 HD

    After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking...

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  • 1951
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    His Kind of Woman

    His Kind of Woman

    6.7 1951 HD

    Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious...

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  • 1948
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    Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    6.7 1948 HD

    When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how...

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  • 1946
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    Calcutta

    Calcutta

    6.2 1946 HD

    Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée...

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  • 1955
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    The Sea Chase

    The Sea Chase

    6.1 1955 HD

    As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse....

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  • 1954
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    A Bullet Is Waiting

    A Bullet Is Waiting

    6 1954 HD

    A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a...

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  • 1953
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    Ride, Vaquero!

    Ride, Vaquero!

    5.8 1953 HD

    Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.

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  • 1942
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    Wake Island

    Wake Island

    5.6 1942 HD

    In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island...

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  • 1956
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    Back from Eternity

    Back from Eternity

    6.6 1956 HD

    A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then...

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  • 1939
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    Five Came Back

    Five Came Back

    6.3 1939 HD

    Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off...

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  • 1939
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    The Saint Strikes Back

    The Saint Strikes Back

    5.6 1939 HD

    Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

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  • 1948
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    The Big Clock

    The Big Clock

    7.3 1948 HD

    Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned...

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  • 1959
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    John Paul Jones

    John Paul Jones

    6.1 1959 HD

    The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

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  • 1953
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    Plunder of the Sun

    Plunder of the Sun

    6 1953 HD

    An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in...

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  • 1948
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    Beyond Glory

    Beyond Glory

    7.3 1948 HD

    Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls...

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  • 1940
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    A Bill of Divorcement

    A Bill of Divorcement

    7 1940 HD

    Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

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  • 1942
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    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    5.3 1942 HD

    A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force...

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  • 1950
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    Copper Canyon

    Copper Canyon

    5.2 1950 HD

    A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter...

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  • 1947
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    California

    California

    6.6 1947 HD

    "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...

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  • 1951
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    Submarine Command

    Submarine Command

    5.6 1951 HD

    Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II....

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  • 1951
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    Red Mountain

    Red Mountain

    6.1 1951 HD

    Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold...

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  • 1943
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    China

    China

    6.8 1943 HD

    Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the...

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  • 1938
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    The Invisible Menace

    The Invisible Menace

    4.1 1938 HD

    Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of...

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  • 1940
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    Married and in Love

    Married and in Love

    5.3 1940 HD

    Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates runs into writer Doris Wilding, his old college flame, whom...

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  • 1932
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    The Impassive Footman

    The Impassive Footman

    3.7 1932 HD

    A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at...

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  • 1939
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    Women in the Wind

    Women in the Wind

    6.8 1939 HD

    A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

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  • 1930
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    Seven Days Leave

    Seven Days Leave

    7 1930 HD

    In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is...

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  • 1937
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    West of Shanghai

    West of Shanghai

    5.4 1937 HD

    American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord.

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  • 1952
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    Botany Bay

    Botany Bay

    6.5 1952 HD

    Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving...

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  • 1937
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    Men in Exile

    Men in Exile

    4.8 1937 HD

    An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

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  • 1939
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    Sorority House

    Sorority House

    6.8 1939 HD

    A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.

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  • 1949
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    Red, Hot and Blue

    Red, Hot and Blue

    5.8 1949 HD

    In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.

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  • 1949
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    Red, Hot and Blue

    Red, Hot and Blue

    5.8 1949 HD

    In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.

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  • 1947
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    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    1 1947 HD

    Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

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  • 1928
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    Ladies of the Mob

    Ladies of the Mob

    1 1928 HD

    A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.

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  • 1935
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    7.3 1935 HD

    Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...

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  • 1947
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    Blaze of Noon

    Blaze of Noon

    5 1947 HD

    In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job...

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  • 1939
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    Reno

    Reno

    6 1939 HD

    A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

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  • 1937
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    She Loved a Fireman

    She Loved a Fireman

    6 1937 HD

    A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

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  • 1929
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    Wolf Song

    Wolf Song

    4.8 1929 HD

    In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he...

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  • 1944
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    The Hitler Gang

    The Hitler Gang

    5.9 1944 HD

    The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.

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  • 1930
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    Inside the Lines

    Inside the Lines

    5.1 1930 HD

    During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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  • 1945
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    You Came Along

    You Came Along

    7 1945 HD

    War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

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  • 1946
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    Two Years Before the Mast

    Two Years Before the Mast

    6.2 1946 HD

    In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own...

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  • 1951
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    His Kind of Woman

    His Kind of Woman

    6.7 1951 HD

    Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious...

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  • 1939
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    Full Confession

    Full Confession

    4.7 1939 HD

    A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

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  • 1927
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    The Wreck of the Hesperus

    The Wreck of the Hesperus

    1 1927 HD

    Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard...

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  • 1928
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    The Blue Danube

    The Blue Danube

    1 1928 HD

    Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair,...

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  • 1938
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    My Bill

    My Bill

    6.2 1938 HD

    An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

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  • 1957
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    The Unholy Wife

    The Unholy Wife

    4.3 1957 HD

    A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they...

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  • 1938
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    Little Miss Thoroughbred

    Little Miss Thoroughbred

    4 1938 HD

    A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.

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  • 1935
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    Last of the Pagans

    Last of the Pagans

    6 1935 HD

    Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.

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  • 1931
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    Their Mad Moment

    Their Mad Moment

    5 1931 HD

    Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir...

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  • 1928
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    The Woman from Moscow

    The Woman from Moscow

    1 1928 HD

    A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.

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  • 1938
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    Broadway Musketeers

    Broadway Musketeers

    4.3 1938 HD

    Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a...

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  • 1931
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    A Woman of Experience

    A Woman of Experience

    5.2 1931 HD

    It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

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  • 1931
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    A Woman of Experience

    A Woman of Experience

    5.2 1931 HD

    It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

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  • 1931
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    A Woman of Experience

    A Woman of Experience

    5.2 1931 HD

    It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a...

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  • 1956
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    Back from Eternity

    Back from Eternity

    6.6 1956 HD

    A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then...

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

    Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

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  • 1936
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    Tarzan Escapes

    Tarzan Escapes

    6.3 1936 HD

    White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and...

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  • 1928
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    The First Kiss

    The First Kiss

    1 1928 HD

    The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home,...

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  • 1930
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    The Bad One

    The Bad One

    6 1930 HD

    In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a...

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  • 1931
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    The Common Law

    The Common Law

    5.5 1931 HD

    When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

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  • 1934
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    The Spectacle Maker

    The Spectacle Maker

    5.6 1934 HD

    A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious...

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  • 1934
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    The Spectacle Maker

    The Spectacle Maker

    5.6 1934 HD

    A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious...

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  • 1959
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    John Paul Jones

    John Paul Jones

    6.1 1959 HD

    The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

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  • 1955
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    The Sea Chase

    The Sea Chase

    6.1 1955 HD

    As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse....

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  • 1929
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    The Wheel of Life

    The Wheel of Life

    1 1929 HD

    British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat...

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  • 1947
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    California

    California

    6.6 1947 HD

    "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...

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  • 1938
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    Comet Over Broadway

    Comet Over Broadway

    5 1938 HD

    Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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