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The Proud Rebel (1958)
$15.00Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again–the boy hadn’t uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home–a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he’s unfairly accused of starting a brawl in a small town. A local woman pays his fine, providing that he works it off on her ranch. He soon finds himself involved in the woman’s struggle to keep her ranch from a local landowner who wants it–and whose sons were responsible for the man being framed for the fight.
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The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
$15.00The 1920’s and 30’s career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld’s “Show Boat”. Her involvement with Larry Maddux, a gin-runner and con-man, and Russell Wade, a prominent, married New York lawyer, and her decline thanks to these failed romances and alcohol are punctuated by performances of many of the songs she made famous.
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The Vagabond King (1956)
$15.00Louis XI of France drafts Paris’s popular “king” of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
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The Egyptian (1954)
$15.00In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe’s personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
$15.00A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
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Trouble Along the Way (1953)
$15.00Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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The Jazz Singer (1953)
$15.00Danny Thomas assumes the old Al Jolson role as the cantor’s son-turned-cabaret entertainer. As Jerry Golding (Thomas) scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father (Eduard Franz), who’d hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation (and a more upbeat denouement than was found in the original film) occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the “Kol Nidre” in his ailing father’s absence. Peggy Lee co-stars as Judy Lane, a musical comedy entertainer who falls in love with Jerry, while Mildred Dunnock and Alex Gerry do what they can with the stereotyped roles of Jerry’s mother and uncle, respectively.
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I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951)
$15.00Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951)
$15.00The triumph and tragedy of Native Anerican Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
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The Breaking Point (1950)
$15.00Based on the Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not. A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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