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Your #1 was Citizen Kane (#1).
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Dir. Orson Welles · Orson Welles · Joseph Cotten · Dorothy Comingore · Ray Collins
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Dir. John Huston · Humphrey Bogart · Mary Astor · Gladys George · Peter Lorre
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Dir. Preston Sturges · Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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Dir. John Ford · Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Anna Lee · Donald Crisp
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
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Dir. Ben Sharpsteen · Edward Brophy · Margaret Wright · Verna Felton · Sarah Selby
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
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Dir. Preston Sturges · Barbara Stanwyck · Henry Fonda · Charles Coburn · Eugene Pallette
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Dir. William Wyler · Bette Davis · Herbert Marshall · Teresa Wright · Richard Carlson
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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Dir. Howard Hawks · Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Dir. Howard Hawks · Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Joan Leslie · George Tobias
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Cary Grant · Joan Fontaine · Cedric Hardwicke · Nigel Bruce
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
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Dir. Frank Capra · Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Dir. Raoul Walsh · Ida Lupino · Humphrey Bogart · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Dir. George Waggner · Lon Chaney Jr. · Claude Rains · Ralph Bellamy · Warren William
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
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Dir. William Keighley · Bette Davis · Ann Sheridan · Monty Woolley · Richard Travis
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Dir. Alexander Hall · Robert Montgomery · Evelyn Keyes · Claude Rains · Rita Johnson
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Dir. H. C. Potter · Ole Olsen · Chic Johnson · Martha Raye · Hugh Herbert
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Barry Nelson · Donna Reed
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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Dir. Mitchell Leisen · Charles Boyer · Olivia de Havilland · Paulette Goddard · Victor Francen
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Felix Bressart · Marsha Hunt
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
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Dir. Irving Rapper · Fredric March · Martha Scott · Beulah Bondi · Gene Lockhart
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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