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The Maltese falcon
by John Huston
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23 editions published between 1941 and 2010 in English and Multiple languages and held by 3,620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette
The searchers
by John Ford
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14 editions published between 1956 and 2009 in English and held by 3,020 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness
Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
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11 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in English and held by 2,738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era
Rebel without a cause
by Nicholas Ray
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17 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in English and held by 2,632 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Jim Stark, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, is overcome by loneliness, frustration and anger, which leads to violence when he seeks approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums
Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
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24 editions published between 1943 and 2012 in English and held by 2,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis
A streetcar named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
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18 editions published between 1987 and 2012 in English and held by 2,007 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies
The treasure of the Sierra Madre
by John Huston
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12 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in English and held by 1,977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two friends head into the mountains to find gold and find themselves turning into men willing to do anything, including kill, for the treasure
The music man
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5 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in English and held by 1,911 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires
The big sleep
by Howard Hawks
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15 editions published between 1984 and 2009 in English and held by 1,866 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love
42nd Street
by Lloyd Bacon
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5 editions published between 1983 and 2006 in English and held by 1,798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score
Yankee Doodle Dandy
by Michael Curtiz
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10 editions published between 1943 and 2003 in English and held by 1,778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide James Cagney sings and dances his way through this musical. The video is a biography of George M. Cohan, famed playwright, entertainer and composer of patriotic songs
My fair lady
by George Cukor
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13 editions published between 1983 and 2011 in English and held by 1,688 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the slums, Eliza Doolittle, who has a strong Cockney accent. Can Higgins turn Eliza into a duchess? And will Eliza care to remain a lady for long? When the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself
Mildred Pierce
by Michael Curtiz
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7 editions published between 1990 and 2005 in English and held by 1,639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high society. Greedy, self-absorbed Veda is still ungrateful, and demands an even greater sacrifice of her mother. Eventually, Mildred finds herself ensnared in the world of police and suspicion when Monte is mysteriously murdered
Giant
by George Stevens
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9 editions published between 1956 and 2003 in English and held by 1,623 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The epic story of three generations of land-rich Texans and their relationships with the new oil wealthy neighbors
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Mike Nichols
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16 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in English and held by 1,542 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Martha and George are a bitter aging couple who, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other
Key Largo
by John Huston
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9 editions published between 1948 and 2005 in English and held by 1,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him
The adventures of Robin Hood
by Michael Curtiz
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10 editions published between 1986 and 2011 in English and held by 1,509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny
The jazz singer
by Samson Raphaelson
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9 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in English and held by 1,503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The melodramatic story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer, despite his father's strenuous objections
Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for murder
by Alfred Hitchcock
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6 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 1,484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man
Ernest Hemingway's To have and have not
by Howard Hawks
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7 editions published between 1945 and 2006 in English and held by 1,474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In 1940, an American charter boat captain in Martinique gets involved with a young female drifter and some French freedom fighters who are trying to elude local Nazi collaborators more
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