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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Georgia The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
California The 1920s1000 convicts as dangerous as dynamite ... with a killer-warden who lit the fuse ! — A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
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Strictly Dishonorable
The 1920sM-G-M's Hilarious Comedy from the Stage Hit! — A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.
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Valentino
California The 1920sThe legitimate behind the scenes story of the man so many women loved — Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
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Tea for Two
New York The 1920sA story that's a joy to be told! They hitch their lovin' to a song and take everyone along for the ride! — In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Rhode Island New Jersey The 1920sHe's the New Father of His Country! — "Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Three Little Words
New York The 1910s The 1920sA wonderful musical! — Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.
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Love That Brute
Illinois The 1920sDirector Alexander Hall's 1950 comedy, about a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee, stars Paul Douglas, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis, Arthur Treacher, Jay C. Flippen, Barry Kelley, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, John Doucette, Arthur O'Connell and Charles Lane.
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The Dancing Years
🇦🇹 Austria The 1920s The 1910sThe episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
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The Angel with the Trumpet
🇦🇹 Austria The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sA Woman Meets Her Destiny! — Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
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Maresi
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The Golden Twenties
The 1920sThe fabulous decade when we came of age! — Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
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The Fountainhead
New York The 1920sNo Man Takes What's Mine! — An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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You're My Everything
Massachusetts The 1920sIn 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies. Includes good imitation "silents" with classic cameo by Buster Keaton.
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Au Grand Balcon
🇫🇷 France The 1920sWorld War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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The Great Gatsby
The 1920sA Great Cast... A Great Novel... A Great Motion Picture — Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
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Edward, My Son
England The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sBroadway Stage Hit . . . Now on the Screen ! — Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma The 1920sIt's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
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Girls in Gingham
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.
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Rotation
🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sThe mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his views. Trying to remain "a non-political man," he withdraws from reality and becomes a Nazis laborer.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1920sThe nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law. — Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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La Terra Trema
🇮🇹 Italy The 1920sIn rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
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The Babe Ruth Story
New England The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible life... the spectacular thrills... the fabulous times of America's best-loved hero....... — The baseball player (William Bendix) goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Blum Affair
The 1920sDr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to accept Blum’s innocence.
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The Angel with the Trumpet
🇦🇹 Austria The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sA long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The 1940s The 1920sYes Sir! Wednesday was WILD! Wednesday was RUGGED! THE WILDEST WACKIEST MOST HILARIOUS AND COMPLETELY BOLLIXED-UP DAY YOU EVER HEARD OF! — Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension.
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Monsieur Verdoux
🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1920sA Comedy of Murders. — The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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Good News
The 1920sM-G-M's terrific technicolor musical! — At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
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Blaze of Noon
The 1920sPARAMOUNT SWEEPS YOU ALOFT IN THE SCREEN'S GREATEST ROMANCE OF THE SKIES! — In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately, the woman dislikes his brothers and constantly worries that he will be killed during a flight. Her fears are not unfounded and much tragedy ensues as the story unfolds.
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While I Live
The 1940s The 1920sIn 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.
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It's a Wonderful Life
New York The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIt's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love! — A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Pennsylvania The 1940s The 1920sFate drew them together… and only murder could part them! — Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
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Night and Day
Connecticut England The 1910s The 1920sSwellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Cole lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 Porter songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grand lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Wooley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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The Hoodlum Saint
New York Maryland The 1920s The 1910sWAS IT THE SOCIETY BEAUTY OR THE NIGHT CLUB SINGER? — A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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To Each His Own
The 1920s The 1910sA Great Picture! You'll Thrill to Every Moment! — During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
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Margie
The 1940s The 1920sThese were the days...When youth was flaming and the Charleston was the National Anthem. — Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne. Circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, in company with every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Margie's date for the prom gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone.
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Star Without Light
The 1920sAn aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.
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The Searching Wind
District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Massachusetts The 1920sMore Delightful Adventures of Those "YOUNG and GAY" Girls! — Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
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Sunken Boat
The 1920sA young law student is forced into an arranged marriage though he is in love with somebody else. Following the wedding the drama focuses on the bride's mistaken identity and the search for her husband.
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Dillinger
Indiana The 1920s The 1930sA Cold Blooded Bandit and a Hot Blooded Blonde ... who stopped at Nothing! — The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934.
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The Dolly Sisters
The 1920s The 1910sThey're Beautiful...They're Glamorous...They're Scandalous... — Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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Incendiary Blonde
New York The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sShe was the biggest sucker of them all! — Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Roughly Speaking
The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sIt's the ROUSING STORY of a Gallant Lady... who lost EVERYTHING BUT HER Laughter! — In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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Captain Eddie
The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s"Rick" is on the Screen ! The Gripping . . . Exciting Story of America's First Ace of Aces ! — WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Scotland 🇨🇳 China The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sTHE PICTURE THAT TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS OF EMOTION — A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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This Happy Breed
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sIn 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
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