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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
IllinoisTHRILLING ADVENTURES...frontier giants join forces to challenge the might of the River Raiders. — Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
IllinoisAn 'untouchable' theme…an unusual motion picture! — A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
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Chicago Syndicate
IllinoisSmashing the nation's worst crime ring! — An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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Target Earth
IllinoisRaw Panic The Screen Never Dared Reveal! — Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.
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The Human Jungle
IllinoisThe inside police story ! — Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
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Carmen Jones
Illinois The 1940sSomething Really New! Something Truly Different! — The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to flying school. Conflict arises when a prize-ring champ captures the heart of Carmen after she has seduced Joe and caused him to go AWOL.
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City That Never Sleeps
Illinois...from the Honky Tonks to the penthouses...the creeps, the hoods, the killers come out to war with the city! — Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
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The All American
IllinoisA family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.
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The Narrow Margin
IllinoisA Fortune If They Seal Her Lips!...A Bullet If They Fail! — A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.
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Carrie
Illinois The 1900sCarrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Illinois The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1940s The 1890sAt the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and others.
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Symphony in Slang
Illinois The 1950sAt the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
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Westward the Women
Illinois The 1850sThe BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE! — In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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Native Son
Illinois The 1930sI didn't mean to KILL her! — Author Richard Wright portrays his novel's Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur trapped in an accidental murder.
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Little Egypt
Illinois The 1890sTHE SHAPE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD! — A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Dark City
IllinoisA tense, tough drama of underworld violence and revenge ! — Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
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Union Station
IllinoisPolice catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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Wabash Avenue
Illinois The 1890sAndy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
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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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White Heat
IllinoisPick up the pieces folks, Jimmy's in action again! — A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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In the Good Old Summertime
Illinois The 1900sFall in love — In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
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Chicago Deadline
IllinoisHe's a fighting reporter making front page history! — On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
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Beyond the Forest
IllinoisNobody's as good as Bette when she's bad! — Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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The Lady Gambles
IllinoisWhen Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Knock on Any Door
IllinoisIt will shock you but it will hold you spellbound to the end ! — An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Undertow
IllinoisEvery bullet in Chicago had his name on it! — Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you'll spot new Universal contractee "Roc" Hudson as a plainclothes detective.
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Call Northside 777
Illinois The 1940s The 1930sIt couldn't happen... but it did! — In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
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Nightmare Alley
IllinoisHe was all things to all men … but only one thing to all women! — Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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My Reputation
IllinoisOf all the dramatic triumphs from Warners this one is the greatest! — Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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The Great Flamarion
Illinois The 1930sGreat with a gun — A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.
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Casanova Brown
IllinoisLIGHT-HEARTED ROMANCE! LIGHT-HEADED COMEDY! WITH A GREAT LOVER! — Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.
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An American Romance
Illinois The 1890sOUT OF THE HOPE AND COURAGE OF A MAN ...THE LOVE AND DEVOTION OF A WOMAN! — A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Goin' to Town
IllinoisTHEY'RE JIVE DIZZY — General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Two Weeks to Live
IllinoisThe "Back-Home" Boys Turn Big-City Jinx-Busters! — When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
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Tornado
Illinois The 1930sA WIND FROM HELL!--blowing life...or DEATH! — The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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Roxie Hart
Illinois The 1920sThe gal who became a national pastime! — A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
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Fingers at the Window
IllinoisChicago is gripped by an Axe Murderer. The streets are empty at night as there has been six murders and six people have been caught, but they are lunatics. Only one person has lived to tell about it, Edwina, who is as dumb as a brick. If it were not for Oliver, she would be number seven. When there is a second attempt on Edwina, Oliver figures that the crimes are not random and that someone is hypnotizing these people to do his bidding, but the police and Edwina are skeptical.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Illinois The 1870sWILD! That's How He Lived! That's How He Loved! That's How He Fought! — The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Syncopation
Illinois The 1910sPresenting THE ALL-AMERICAN DANCE BAND...Selected from among Readers in the SATURDAY EVENING POST POLL — A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Lady Scarface
IllinoisMarked Woman! Gun-Moll! Killer Queen! — A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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They Meet Again
IllinoisDr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Illinois The 1860s The 1850sNow on the screen! — Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Brigham Young
Illinois The 1850s The 1840sThe Great American Motion Picture ! — Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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The Earl of Chicago
Illinois The 1930sCan a Lord of England be a Czar of the underworld? — A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Lady with Red Hair
Illinois The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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The Fight for Life
Illinois The 1940sThe Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A tribute to the Chicago Maternity Center and its efforts to provide the best possible care for destitute mothers, the film is based on the book of the same name by Paul de Kruif. Myron McCormick plays the largest role as a dedicated intern, while others in the cast include such theatrical heavywrights as Will Geer, Dudley Digges and Dorothy Adams. The film's many vignettes range from the tragic (a mother dying in childbirth in the opening scene) to the exultant (another mother rescued from the brink of death in a disease-ridden tenement). Filmed in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, Fight for Life is a worthwhile effort, though Lorentz seems more comfortable with the "actuality" scenes than with the dramatized passages.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Illinois The 1830sThe story of Abraham Lincoln that has NEVER been told! — In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Illinois The 1830sHIS GREATEST TRIUMPH! — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Illinois The 1830s The 1840sThrills! Adventure! Laughs! — Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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In Old Chicago
Illinois The 1870s The 1860sThe great American motion picture! — The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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