Fred MacMurray
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How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her relationship with the big boss, Mr. Sheldrake. On Christmas Eve,...
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During World War II, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage...
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Walter Neff is a smooth talking insurance salesman who meets the very attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and have an affair. They scheme together to murder Phyllis' husband for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. Barton Keyes is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.
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Universal
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Three-cornered moon : Considered by some to be the first screwball comedy, this film portrays a Brooklyn family as various members look for employment after Mom loses a fortune on the stock market.
Maid of Salem: An independent young woman is accused of casting evil spells by the Puritan townsfolk.
I met him in Paris: A successful designer must choose between three suitors: a creative playwright, a dashing playboy and a hometown boy.
Bluebeard's...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
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English
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"Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America."--Set container.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand,...
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program! The first live-action comedy Walt Disney produced.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Join single father Steve Douglas as he guides his three sons, Mike, Robbie and Chip. Along with Grandpa Bub and Tramp the dog. The boys go through a never-ending series of calamities, all the while Steve fends off marriage-minded women.
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Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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My man Godfrey: "A wacky scavenger hunt leads dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict. She hires him as family butler. Godfrey soon discovers the Bullocks are as nutty as the proverbial fruitcake" ... Swing high, swing low: "While hoofing it in Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and agrees to a date. The date turns into a nightclub brawl that ends with Maggie missing...
13) Alice Adams
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English
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Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
14) Murder, he says
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2011.
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English
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Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search of a missing fellow employee. The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property.
16) Above suspicion
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Two American honeymooners in pre-war Europe are asked by British intelligence to help track down a missing agent.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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A college professor develops an anti-gravity substance by accident and equips his Model T and his college's basketball player's shoes with it. He tries to convince the Pentagon of its value but has problems with a local crook who wants to profit from the idea.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Join single father Steve Douglas as he guides his three sons, Mike, Robbie and Chip. Along with Grandpa Bub and Tramp the dog. The boys go through a never-ending series of calamities, all the while Steve fends off marriage-minded women.
19) Double indemnity
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Criterion collection volume 1126
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Join single father Steve Douglas as he guides his three sons, Mike, Robbie and Chip. Along with Grandpa Bub and Tramp the dog. The boys go through a never-ending series of calamities, all the while Steve fends off marriage-minded women.