The Palm Beach Story (1943)
The Palm Beach Story is a hilarious, screwball comedy. The farcical plot effectively skewers the idle rich and the pursuit of money, with its story of a penniless, separated couple.
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The Letter (1940)
The Letter movie storyline. A classic melodramatic film noir of murder, directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W. Somerset Maugham’s mid-1920s London stage play.
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The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai movie storyline. Orson Welles’ imaginative, complicated, unsettling film noir who-dun-it thriller – a B/W tale of betrayal, lust, greed and murder.
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Kings Row (1942)
A thought-provoking, emotional, melodramatic, ‘Peyton Place’-like film with a turn-of-the-century, small-town setting that reveals evil, sadism, cruelty, and depravity. Directed by Sam Wood and with James Wong Howe’s cinematography and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s magnificently rich score, the tragic Warner Bros. film presents a compelling, penetrating and difficult story with eloquence and power.
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Key Largo (1948)
Key Largo is about a fugitive gangster Johnny Rocco, who is on-the-run with fellow mobsters and his alcoholic lush moll and ex-nightclub singer, Gaye Dawn.
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Bambi (1942)
Bambi movie storyline. The last of the classic, early Disney animated features – a ‘coming of age’ tale of a young male deer growing up in the world to be a magnificent stag.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace movie storyline. A frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy from celebrated director Frank Capra. The film’s screenplay was written by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.
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To Have and Have Not (1944)
To Have and Have Not movie storyline. Adapted from the 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway, with a script by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman – often considered a sequel to Casablanca.
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Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio movie storyline. The second full-length animated feature classic from Walt Disney Studios – about a wooden puppet who yearns to be a real boy.
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Murder, My Sweet movie storyline. Hard-boiled tale that was a complex, shadowy film noir of murder, corruption, blackmail, double-cross and double identity.
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