Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
The Devil Is a Woman told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a café the older man details his encounters with the heart breaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade.
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Baccara is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Yves Mirande and starring Marcelle Chantal, Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry, Marcel André, Paul Clerget, Léon Arvel, Emile Saulieu, Claude Marty, Jean Gobet, Pierre Piérade, Pierre Sarda, Michel Serrault. The film’s music was composed by Jean Lenoir. Baccara was released on December 20, 1935.
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Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo) is the wife of Czarist official Karenin (Basil Rathbone). While she tries to persuade her brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, she becomes infatuated with dashing military officer Count Vronsky (Fredric March).
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In the small town of South Renford, Alice Adams comes from a working class background, although she aspires to be among the upper class. Alice’s mother blames her husband for their low social standing, despite his working hard and Alice not blaming him for anything. Regardless, Alice tries to do whatever necessary to put on appearances of wealth and social standing, despite everyone in that class in town knowing who she is, and thus largely ignoring her because of her false airs.
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Dusting off a couple of old Ken Maynard Western plots — already recycled once with John Wayne in the early 1930s — Warner Bros. jumped on the singing cowboy band wagon with a series starring baritone Dick Foran (formerly Nick Foran.
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All Quiet on the Western Front movie storyline. This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher.
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The Lady Vanishes movie storyline. Passengers on a scheduled train out of the mountainous European country of Mandrika are delayed by a day due to an avalanche, and thus get up close and personal with each other out of necessity in the only and what becomes an overcrowded inn in the area.
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Four Daughters movie storyline. Fannie Hurst’s Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by the Lane Sisters–Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola–and by Gale Page. All are musical prodigies, and all are daughters of master-musician Claude Rains.
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A Farewell to Arms movie storyline. An American serving in WW1 falls in love with a very spirited nurse. On the Italy-Austrian front of World War I, Lt. Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper) is serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army when he meets British nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes)
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Iron Man movie synopsis. After lightweight prizefighter Kid Mason (Lew Ayres) loses his opening fight, golddigging wife Rose (Jean Harlow) leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains seriously and starts winning.
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