Gregory Peck
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This adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway's best-known short stories significantly expands on the original. As writer Harry Street lies gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he recalls his one true love, Cynthia Green, whom he lost because of his obsession for roaming the world. Meanwhile, Street's current wife tends to his wounds and tries to restore in him the will to survive.
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The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
7) The bravados
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An expert tracker and gunman is anxious to see justice exacted upon four violent men whom he believes raped and murdered his wife.
9) Yellow sky
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A band of robbers are running from the law, and they find an almost abandoned town. An old prosecutor and his granddaughter have been living there. Realizing that they have gold, the robbers have a plan of taking it, but one robber turns against them.
10) I walk the line
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A southern sheriff, intending on bringing a man in for moonshining, instead falls for his young daughter and makes sure the feds don't arrest the man. With a deputy's murder and his marriage over, will the sheriff still get his girl?
11) MacArthur
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English
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Biographical drama of the controversial general, from 1942 in the Philippines to his dismissal by Truman for insubordination in 1951.
12) Moby Dick
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Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
13) Night people
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"After World War II, an American GI is kidnapped by Soviets who hope to exchange him for two ex-Nazis hiding in West Berlin."--Container.
15) Cape Fear
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An ex-convict blames a lawyer for his sentence and tries to wreak bloody revenge on the lawyer and his family.
16) On the beach
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A group of survivors attempt to live normal lives in post-apocalyptic Australia, waiting for the inevitable arrival of killer radiation.
18) Arabesque
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English
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A romantic thriller about an Oxford professor who is hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message and befriends his exotic companion.
19) Mirage
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A suspenseful drama in which a physiochemist suffers from amnesia and tries to unravel the mysteries locked in his mind and understand why he is the target of hit men.
20) The gunfighter
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Jimmy Ringo is a notorious killer and the deadliest shot in the Old West. Though his appetite for bloodletting has waned, Jimmy is forced to stay on the run by young guns determined to shoot him down. After killing an upstart in self-defense, he escapes the boy's vengeful brothers to the nearby town of Cayenna. There, he hopes to convince his estranged wife to resume their life together. With more young men gunning for him, Ringo's fate lies in the...