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Eugene O' Neill's tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons dissaprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune. What follows is a tragedy of epic proportions. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Paul Adelstein, Orson Bean, Amy Brenneman, Dwier Brown, Maurice Chasse and Charlie Kimball.
3) Unholy Love
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This 1932 production was the first filmed adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's famous novel Madame Bovary-but with all the characters renamed and the setting transported to Rye, New York in the 1930s. Directed by Albert Ray and starring H. B. Warner, Lila Lee, Beryl Mercer, Joyce Compton, and Jason Robards, Sr.
5) A good woman
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A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.
9) The duel
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Escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation. He has run off to the sea with beautiful, emotionally empty Nadya, another man's wife. Laevsky has now grown tired of her, but two obstacles block his route to escape: he is broke, and he faces the absolute enmity of Von...
11) Double indemnity
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An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.
12) Cactus flower
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A middle-aged bachelor dentist gets involved with a kooky mistress, refusing to admit his real love for his prim and proper receptionist.
15) The other woman
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After discovering her boyfriend is married, a woman tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the wife he's been cheating on, she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on their cheating, lying, three-timing SOB.
16) Back street
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A quintessential tearjerker in which a couple meets and falls in love but is unable to marry due to impossible circumstances.
18) The sea of grass
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Brewton's cattle empire includes a million acres of grazing land. Lutie marries him and they have a daughter Sara. Lutie goes alone to Denver where she and lawyer Chamberlain conceive a son Brock whom Jim later accepts with resignation. Long afterward Brock is killed by a posse and Susie brings Lutie and Jim together once more.
19) The dilemma
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Ronny's world is turned upside down when he inadvertently sees something he should not have and makes it his mission to get answers. As the amateur investigation dissolves his world into comic mayhem, he learns that his best friend Nick has a few secrets of his own. Now, Ronny must decide what will happen if he reveals the truth.
20) Ghosts
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Mrs. Alving confronts the ghosts of her unhappy marriage to a philandering husband when she is made to dedicate an orphanage in his name and her son falls in love with a housemaid who is actually his half-sister.