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Toys in the Attic
LouisianaToys in the Attic Plays With Fire! — Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.
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All the Way Home
Tennessee The 1910sLove is not a thing that grows only in the dark! — In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
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The Pirates of the Mississippi
Arkansas The 19th CenturyEuropean produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
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Gone Are the Days!
GeorgiaA young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Alabama The 1930sThe rare film story of a father who must expose his children to a small town's outraged passions… and can only protect them with his love. — Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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The Miracle Worker
AlabamaAn emotional earthquake! — The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
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Cape Fear
North Carolina GeorgiaNow he had only one weapon left—murder! — Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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Follow That Dream
FloridaGO! GO! GO! It's Free-Wheeling Fun! — When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
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Period of Adjustment
Tennessee The 1950sThe agonizing pause between the honeymoon and the marriage! — George Haverstick, a Korean war veteran, hastily marries Isabel, whom he met in hospital while he was recovering from a nervous condition. To Isabel's horror, they drive to Florida on their honeymoon in an old hearse. They spend much of the time quarreling, and then, on Christmas eve, they visit George's war buddy, Ralph Baltz. However Ralph's wife Dorothea has just walked out on him, taking their child. Each couple then observes the marital difficulties of the other couple
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Walk on the Wild Side
Louisiana The 1930sA side of life you never expected to see on the screen! — At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
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All Fall Down
FloridaMale enough to attract a dozen women...not man enough to be faithful to one! — Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.
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Hero's Island
North Carolina The 18th CenturyPioneers Of The Sea... Tamers Of The Land... Builders Of The Dream! — A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
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Martian Through Georgia
GeorgiaWay out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the alien Earthlings improve their lot, only to cause panic and be declared a monster just because he looks different. So, he decides to return home, where, at least, he can find love.
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The Comancheros
Louisiana The 1840sBig Jake the Adventurer... Paul Regret the Gambler... Pilar the Gypsy beauty... Three With a Past... Destined to Cross and Clash... In a Kingdom of Killers! — Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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All in a Night's Work
Florida The 1960sIt's nice work - and you can get it! — Tony Ryder takes over the magazine of his late uncle, who supposedly died while spending time with a mistress. Worried that the news will besmirch his magazine's wholesome reputation, Tony hires a detective to find out who the mistress is.
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Summer and Smoke
Mississippi The 1910sIn a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita Moreno.
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Claudelle Inglish
GeorgiaWhen she was seventeen there wasn't a man she'd let near her. When she was eighteen there wasn't one she'd keep away. — A rural southern girl reaches the age where she's ready for a little excitement away from home. Director Gordon Douglas' 1961 drama stars Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins, Chad Everett, Constance Ford, Claude Akins, Frank Overton, James Bell and Hope Summers.
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The Dead One
LouisianaEXOTIC VOODOO RITUALS — A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
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Sanctuary
Mississippi The 1920sFrom the Nobel Prize winner...the unadorned truth about the governor's daughter...seared by the fires of her desperate desires...tormented by the new-found emotions within her... — In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
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Inherit the Wind
Tennessee The 1920sIt’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America! — This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy—the role religion should play in the schools.
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The Bellboy
FloridaIt's a Series of Silly Sequences and One of Jerry's All-Time Great Comedy Performances! — Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas The 19th CenturyThe most exciting adventures a boy ever had! Hilarious escapades, hair-raising adventures on the fabulous Mississippi! — From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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The Fugitive Kind
Louisiana MississippiWith a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women... — Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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Wild River
Tennessee The 1930sThe wild language…the wild hungers…the wild furies! — A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
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The Cape Canaveral Monsters
FloridaWhen a couple are killed in an auto accident their bodies are immediately inhabited by extraterrestrial beings. Taking refuge in an underground cave, the aliens attempt to sabotage the U.S. space program.
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Some Like It Hot
Florida The 1920sTwo musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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Porgy and Bess
South Carolina The 1900sIntroducing a new era in motion pictures! — Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Louisiana The 1930sSuddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil! — The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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The Horse Soldiers
Mississippi The 1860sJohn Ford's Thundering Spectacle — A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
FloridaMassive Blood Sucking Monsters! — A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
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A Hole in the Head
FloridaThe most wonderful entertainment in the whole wide wonderful world! — An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
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The Alligator People
LouisianaNerve-shattering terror! — Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
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The FBI Story
Louisiana The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sYou are crouched in a basement stairway opposite a theatre in Chicago. Keep your eyes on that FBI man across the street. He has set the trap for deadly public enemy, John Dillinger... — A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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The Sound and the Fury
MississippiDrama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
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That Kind of Woman
Florida The 1940sA young GI (Tab Hunter) falls in love with a kept woman (Sophia Loren) on a train to New York.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
MississippiJust one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart. — An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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The Buccaneer
Louisiana The 1810sPiercing Drama of La Fitte - Man or Devil ? — During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
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King Creole
LouisianaBack on screen for the first time in a year! — Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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God's Little Acre
Georgia The 1950sLove! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a Southern Sun! — In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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The Long, Hot Summer
MississippiThe red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers! — Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.
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The Invisible Avenger
LouisianaShuddering thrills... as the Shadow Man strikes! — Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
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Wind Across the Everglades
Florida The 1900sSTORMING THE HEIGHTS OF MOTION PICTURE GREATNESS! — An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
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The Gun Runners
Florida The 1950sHemingway-hot adventure ! — Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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Mardi Gras
LouisianaA military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Hot Spell
LouisianaA housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
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A Face in the Crowd
Tennessee Arkansas The 1950sPOWER! He loved it! He took it raw in big gulpfuls … he liked the taste, the way it mixed with the bourbon and the sin in his blood! — The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
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The Three Faces of Eve
GeorgiaThe strangest true experience a young girl ever had. — A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
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Band of Angels
Louisiana The 1860sYou're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'! — Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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The Tarnished Angels
Louisiana The 1930sThe Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed! — In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
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Tammy and the Bachelor
MississippiAll about a little Mississippi riverboat gal who taught a sophisticated bachelor about love! — An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
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