Margaret Hamilton
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Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and dog, Toto in Kansas. When a horrible neighbor, Miss Gulch, takes Toto away, Toto escapes back to Dorothy. Soon, she runs away from home, and runs into the fake psychic, Professor Marvel. When he tells Dorothy that her Auntie Em is sick, Dorothy and Toto run back home just ahead of a tornado that whisks Dorothy and Toto to Oz, a place somewhere over the rainbow. When the house lands in Munchkinland,...
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Certain she was dying, Hazel (Carole Lombard) is happy to learn it was a false alarm. But when New York City reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) shows up looking for a story about a young girl braving terminal illness, Hazel decides that she's sick again. Wally whisks her off to Manhattan, where her "courage" wins her many admirers and he falls in love with Wally and dreads being discovered.
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Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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John Steinbeck adapted three of his own classic short stories to create a powerful family portrait. Young Tom is unable to find the love and guidance he needs from his parents. For friendship and support, Tom turns to the easy-going hired hand, Billy Buck. In an attempt to become closer to his son, Tom's father gives him a red pony to raise. As the horse becomes the focus of Tom's life, it ultimately drives the family further apart as Tom turns to...
4) The bat
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Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A rainy night portends doom at the eerie old Fleming mansion. Within its walls, a bank robber has concealed $20,000 in stolen cash. All the guests at the rented home are under suspicion by the police. At the same time, a mysterious master criminal called The Bat scours the mansion for the hidden money. Since he wears a terrifying mask, The Bat could be any one of the suspects. As the guests at the Fleming mansion start dying in gruesome ways, it becomes...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In this newly restored, glorious adaptation of the Mark Twain classic, young Tom Sawyer is a big troublemaker. When he's not tricking others into doing his work, he's upsetting his aunt Polly or wooing his young love, Becky Thatcher. But sometimes Tom's mischief gets him in over his head, and when he and his pal, Huckleberry Finn, witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down the river on a raft. The whole town believes they're dead so...
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Brewster McCloud is a strange young man who lives under the roof of the Houston Astrodome and is secretly building a pair of giant wings. A ruthless killer is on the loose in Houston, and some of the city's richest and most illustrious citizens are among the victims. Is it the killer's bizarre trademark or merely a coincidence that each corpse is marked with bird droppings?
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Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Surfacing in Seattle, Kolchak uncovers another maddening mystery: Every 21 years--for the pastcentury--a serial killer commits a spree of murders, drains his victims' blood and then quietly disappears. But Kolchak is onto this monster and is about to discover a shocking underground lair, an army of rotting corpses, and the ageless madman behind it all.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Two-time Oscar winner Helen Hayes gives a powerhouse performance in this acclaimed Pre-Code adaptation of Rose Franken's hit play, costarring Robert Montgomery and Louise Closser Hale. After eloping with her new husband, Victor (Montgomery), free spirited artist Stella Hallam (Hayes) finds the honeymoon's over when she meets his mother (Hale), a manipulative woman determined to keep the apron strings tied to her son. Criticized and snubbed by her...
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Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The Music man: Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk.
Yankee Doodle Dandy: A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.
Seven brides for seven brothers: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.
Viva Las Vegas; A young man comes...