Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife’s anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the native Americans of their land and resources.
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Gun Crazy movie storyline. From the time he was old enough to hold a gun, Bart Tare was fascinated with firearms, and was put into a reform school for stealing one. He becomes an expert marksman, but after killing a chicken because it was a running target he becomes remorseful and vows to never again kill a living thing.
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The Goddess movie storyline. Emily Ann Faulkner grew up unloved by her self-absorbed party-loving mother, who openly stated that they would have given up Emily Ann if given the chance.
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Elevator to the Gallows movie storyline. A businessman (Julien Tavernier, played by Maurice Ronet), in love with his boss’s wife (Florence Carala, played by Jeanne Moreau), plans a murder to look like suicide. This involves using a grappling hook and rope to enable him to climb up a floor without using the elevator. So far, so good.
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Desire movie storyline. This is a poetic film about life, told with four vignettes, each one set during a different season and featuring a character at a different stage in life. The first a young boy anticipating the arrival of a new baby sister in the spring, the second a post adolescent girl who falls in love in the summer, the third an adult woman who toils away at the fields in the fall, and the last an old widowed teacher who falls ill in the winter.
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Cry Terror movie storyline. Paul Hoplin (Rod Steiger) is the mastermind of a crime to collect a $500,000 ransom, threatening to use an explosive device that Jim Molner (James Mason) designed. He and his gang are holding Molner, wife Joan (Inger Stevens) and young daughter Patty (Terry Ann Ross) hostage. FBI agents gather in New York with representatives of an airline. Hoplin has been sending anonymous notes, suggesting that a bomb will be planted on an aircraft.
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The Crawling Eye movie storyline. On the Swiss mountain Trollenberg, one of three student climbers is suddenly killed, his head ripped from his body. Two sisters, Anne (Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jayne), a London mind-reading act, are travelling by train to Geneva when Anne faints as the train passes the mountain. Upon waking, Anne insists that they must get off at the next stop.
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The Cry Baby Killer movie storyline. 17-year-old Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson) is brutally beaten by Manny Cole and two of his teen-age punk friends, Joey and Al, because Manny wants to move in on Jimmy’s girl, Carole Fields (Carolyn Mitchell). Later, Jimmy shows up at the hangout of the teenage crowd to take Carole away, and challenges Manny to a fight.
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The Reluctant Debutante movie storyline. Jimmy (Rex Harrison) and Sheila Broadbent (Kay Kendall), welcome to London Jimmy’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee). Jane is from Jimmy’s first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the stepmother she has never met. While visiting, Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street movie storyline. Caught red-handed for a crime he swears he didn’t commit, the hopeful criminal mastermind and–for now–small-time thief, Cosimo, entrusts the square-jawed boxer, Peppe, with the plan for a seemingly fail-proof pawnshop heist on the quiet Madonna Street.
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