Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
Kissin’ Cousins movie storyline. The U.S. Federal Government has run into a dead end trying to negotiate the lease of mountaintop land owned by Pappy Tatum, in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, for use as an ICBM missile base.
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A Shot in the Dark movie storyline. Ballon household: Benjamin Ballon and his wife Madame Ballon, Henri Lafarge the head Butler and his wife Madame Lafarge the Cook, Miguel Ostos the Head Chauffeur, Maria Gambrelli the third maid, Pierre the second Chauffeur and his wife Dudo the head Maid.
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The Collector movie storyline. After winning a large amount in the pool in Reading, the outcast bank clerk and entomologist Freddie Clegg buys an isolated house in the countryside.
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China is Near movie storyline. A pair of working class lovers – a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Their targets are a professor, Vittorio Gordini Malvezzi ,(Glauco Mauri), who is running for municipal office as a Socialist candidate, and his sister Elena, (Elda Tattoli), a great lady who lets every man in town climb on top of her but won’t marry because socially they’re all beneath her.
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Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is hired by his ex-partner on the police force Ralph Turpin, they are now both private dicks, to remove a drunk girl, Diana, from his hotel and keep the hotel’s name out of it. Tony takes the girl home for $200 where he meets the entire Kosterman family including her husband Donald Pines, and Ann Archer, a party guest from the previous night’s party.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye movie storyline. U.S. Army Major Weldon Penderton (Marlon Brando) is stationed on a base in the American south. He and his wife Leonora Penderton (Elizabeth Taylor) are in an unsatisfying marriage.
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A Very Special Favor movie storyline. Michel Boullard (Charles Boyer) meets Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) while going against him in a court case in France. To win the case, Chadwick woos the attract female judge, and this becomes known to attorney Boullard.
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Repulsion movie storyline. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word “sensitive” to describe Carol’s overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything.
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Nightmare Castle movie storyline. Muriel Hampton Arrowsmith (Barbara Steele) has entered the lab of her husband Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller) with a drink. He chastises her for entering without permission, commenting on her drinking. She acknowledges that he is leaving for a scientific conference where he will be with other fanatical good-for-nothings like yourself she taunts.
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I Saw What You Did movie storyline. With true William Castle-style flamboyance the advertisements for I Saw What You Did intrigued non-etymologically inclined audiences by warning them that this suspenseful thriller was about uxoricide. He then had some of the theaters where the film was shown equipped with seat belts so frightened audience members wouldn’t flee the theater in a panic. It was a spooky film, but wasn’t all that scary.
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