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1960s Movies

Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

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Cheyenne Autumn movie storyline. In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf and Dull Knife lead over Cheyenne Indians from their reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to their former traditional home in Wyoming.

1950s Movies

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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Anatomy of a Murder movie storyline. Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband’s story, the local paper has reported that the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped.

1940s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rope (1948)

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Rope movie storyline. Manhattan socialites Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan choke the life out of an associate, David, as an intellectual challenge to commit the perfect murder. Not content to escape the penalty of law by simply disposing of the body quietly, they furthermore devise an elaborate and dangerous display of arrogance.

1950s Movies

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

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Bell, Book and Candle movie storyline. Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a modern-day witch living in Greenwich Village. A publisher named Shep Henderson (James Stewart) moves into the apartment above hers and she becomes interested in him. When she learns he is going to marry her college nemesis, Merle Kittridge (Janice Rule), the next day, Gillian uses her cat, Pyewacket, to cast a love spell on Shep.

1950s Movies

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

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The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired to play in the band of Ben Pollack, the band-leader listens to one Glenn’s composition and invites him to join his band. While traveling to New York, Glenn visits his former girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder, Colorado, and asks her to wait for him.

1960s Movies

Dear Brigitte (1965)

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Dear Brigitte storyline. Robert Leaf is an American college professor whose precocious son Erasmus is a mathematical prodigy. It is discovered that Erasmus is infatuated with Brigitte Bardot.

1970s Movies

The Big Sleep (1978)

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The Big Sleep movie storyline. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters.

1960s Movies

How the West Was Won (1963)

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How the West Was Won movie storyline. The story of how, over several generations, families opened up the Western U.S. to settlement.

1950s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Vertigo (1958)

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Vertigo (1958) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most powerful, deep, and stunningly beautiful films (in widescreen 70 mm VistaVision) – it is a film noir that functions on multiple levels.

1950s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Rear Window (1954)

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After breaking his leg during a dangerous assignment, professional photographer L. B. “Jeff” Jeffries (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment, whose rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. During a summer heat wave, he passes the time by watching his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool. The tenants he can see include a dancer, a lonely woman, a songwriter, several married couples, and Lars Thorwald (Burr), a salesman with a bedridden wife.