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Universal-International (Firm)
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Universal-International (Firm)
To kill a mockingbird
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17 editions published between 1962 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,937 libraries worldwide Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
All quiet on the western front
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10 editions published between 1930 and 2008 in English and held by 1,701 libraries worldwide A group of young World War I German recruits pass from idealism to disillusionment with war.
Touch of evil
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3 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in English and held by 1,491 libraries worldwide On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan, Mexican-born police officer Mike Vargas agrees to investigate a car bombing. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinlan, a corrupt, bullying behemoth with a perfect arrest record. Vargas suspects that Quinlan has planted evidence to win his past convictions, and he is not about to let the suspect in the current case be railroaded. Determined to get Vargas out of his hair, Quinlan makes a deal with local crime boss Uncle Joe Grandi to frame Susan on a drug rap. Dissecting the nature of good and evil in a hallucinatory, nightmarish ambiance, this baroque south-of-the-border mystery opens with one of the most remarkably extended long takes in movie history.
Imitation of life
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10 editions published between 1959 and 2008 in English and held by 1,376 libraries worldwide The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Harvey
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5 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 1,245 libraries worldwide Comedy about a good-natured fellow whose constant companion is a six-foot tall invisible rabbit. His sister is determined to marry her daughter off and decides to commit her brother to a mental hospital to get him out of the way. Due to a mix-up the sister is committed instead, and it is up to the kindly brother and his imaginary friend to straighten things out!
All that heaven allows
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6 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in English and held by 928 libraries worldwide Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
Cape Fear
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2 editions published between 1991 and 2001 in English and held by 907 libraries worldwide An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.
Written on the wind
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6 editions published between 1956 and 2007 in English and held by 784 libraries worldwide "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his nymphomaniac sister."--Container.
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello meet Frankenstein
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4 editions published between 1986 and 2000 in English and held by 747 libraries worldwide A comic horror film in which Abbott and Costello encounter Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and a mad scientist.
Flower drum song
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 707 libraries worldwide Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications, merriment, and many musical numbers ensue.
Winchester '73
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8 editions published between 1950 and 2008 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 591 libraries worldwide An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
The Naked City
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4 editions published between 1995 and 2007 in English and held by 584 libraries worldwide Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
Operation petticoat
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2 editions published between 1994 and 2001 in English and held by 582 libraries worldwide World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of Army nurses.
To hell and back
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4 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in English and held by 555 libraries worldwide Based on the true story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history.
The Glenn Miller story
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2 editions published between 1986 and 2003 in English and held by 540 libraries worldwide This tribute to Glenn Miller charts his rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Pillow talk
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3 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 498 libraries worldwide A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.
Pillow talk
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3 editions published between 1983 and 2009 in English and held by 489 libraries worldwide A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.
Magnificent obsession
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2 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 459 libraries worldwide Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from a rescue team. They have to use the town's only resuscitator. At that same moment the beloved, local doctor has a heart attack and dies while waiting for the life-saving device. When Bob learns about the doctor's secret - to give selflessley and in secret - he decides to give it a try. He alienates the doctor's widow, Helen, with whom Bob has now fallen in love. His persistence causes another tragedy, and he must remake his life.
To kill a mockingbird
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4 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and Italian and held by 453 libraries worldwide The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Creature from the Black Lagoon the legacy collection
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 399 libraries worldwide Creature from the Black Lagoon: In the upper reaches of the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The creature is captured and falls in love with the female assistant of the leader of the research team. When the lonely creature escapes and kidnaps her, the scientist mounts an effort to reclaim his sweetheart and return the creature to his watery home. more
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