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The Group
Ohio The 1940s The 1930sSidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel. It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
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The Sons of Great Bear
South Dakota The 1870sFirst DEFA "western" establishing Gojko Mitić's stardom portraying Native Americans.
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16 in Webster Groves
Missouri16-year-olds of Webster Groves, an upper-middle-class suburb in Missouri, are interviewed in this one-hour TV special documentary on their experiences of growing up in their town and their views on the future.
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The Glass Menagerie
Missouri The 1930sAn adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
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The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
MissouriWritten, directed, and self-financed by Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), taken advantage of by a boy band, fashioned after The Beatles, determined to exploit the young woman's powers as part of a hoax revival.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Minnesota The 1960sThat's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown! — When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts, but is a frustrating struggle. When an attempt to restore the proper spirit with a forlorn little fir Christmas tree fails, he needs Linus' help to learn the meaning of Christmas.
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Girl Happy
IllinoisElvis jumps with the campus crowd to make the beach 'ball' bounce!!! — A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Mickey One
Illinois...and the name of the game is Mickey! — A former comic is on the run from the mob.
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Goldstein
IllinoisGOLDSTEIN, the feature film debut of talented director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Quills), is an early example of American independent filmmaking from the early 1960s. A fable about an old man with an odd effect on those he encounters, the film is a funny, warm-hearted postcard from an important moment in American cinema.GOLDSTEIN, starring veteran character actor Lou Gilbert (Viva Zapata!, The Great White Hope), shared the Prix de la Nouvelle Critique at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival with Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution. Cinema deity Jean Renoir called the film "the best American film I have seen in 20 years."
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Town Tamer
KansasA TIME OF VIOLENCE! A TOWN OF SHAME! A MAN OF DESTINY! — A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
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Black Spurs
Kansas The 1880sBounty Hunter-Law Abiding Killer! — A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
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Children Without
Michigan The 1960sChildren Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her brother growing up in the housing projects of Detroit. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Fail Safe
Nebraska The 1960sIt will have you sitting on the brink of eternity! — Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Illinois The 1920s The Middle AgesLike we've taken the Robin Hood legend and changed the bows and arrows to machine guns!... Like with songs yet!... Like WILD! — In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?
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Nightmare in Chicago
Indiana IllinoisThe story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
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One Potato, Two Potato
Ohio The 1960sOne of the HOTTER Topics Of Our Time...Now Scorches the Screen! — Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the new husband fights for his parental rights in court, fighting against a judge who represents the prejudices of the era.
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Mail Order Bride
KansasAll you need for a hillbilly weddin' is a guy, a gal and a shotgun! — Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
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Law of the Lawless
Kansas The 1880sThe "Hanging Judge" had come to the moment of decision! — A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Ohio The 1950sThe Most WONDERFUL Entertainment EVER! EVER! — A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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The Stripper
KansasThe story of a girl...And the Men who led her to become "The Stripper" — An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.
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The Unmentionables
Illinois The 1920sIn a spoof of TV's "Untouchables" Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Ness" (Bugs) through the ACME cereal company.
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Lolita
Ohio The 1950sHow did they ever make a movie of ... — Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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Birdman of Alcatraz
KansasInside the rock called Alcatraz they tried to chain a volcano they called 'The Bird Man'! — After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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The Puzzle of the Red Orchid
IllinoisRival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
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The Music Man
Iowa The 1910sThe story of that man and his 76 trombones, and the wonderful, wonderful tune he played on every heart in town! — A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
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All Fall Down
OhioMale 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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Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Michigan The 1910sThe hungers of a young man's springtime... — Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
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Splendor in the Grass
Kansas The 1930s The 1920sThere is a miracle in being young... and a fear — A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Illinois The 1950sThe prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions... — Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
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Back Street
Nebraska The 1950s The 1940sAmbitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
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The Hoodlum Priest
MissouriThe most fantastic story the screen has ever told AND IT'S TRUE right down to its last jolt! — Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
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Elmer Gantry
Kansas The 1920sIf there was a dollar to be made—Gantry would make it … If there was a soul to be saved—Gantry would save it … — When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Illinois Missouri 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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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
IllinoisRipped Raw and Roaring from Real Life! — In this sequel to "Knock On Any Door", the residents of a Chicago tenement building band together to insure that the son of Nick Romano does not follow in his father's footsteps...to the electric chair.
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Anatomy of a Murder
MichiganNo search of human emotions has ever probed so deeply, so truthfully as… Anatomy of a Murder. — Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
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North by Northwest
Illinois South DakotaIt's a deadly game of 'tag' and Cary Grant is 'it'... — Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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Some Like It Hot
Illinois 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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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
MissouriCareer criminals (David Clarke, Graham Denton) and a local youth (Steve McQueen) carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.
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The Jayhawkers!
Kansas The 1860sAgainst the background of a turbulent era when Civil War was a flaming cloud on history's horizon . . A TREMENDOUS MOTION PICTURE! — Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
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Compulsion
Illinois The 1920sTwo close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
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The FBI Story
Illinois 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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Good Day for a Hanging
NebraskaHANGING'S TOO GOOD FOR A RAT LIKE THIS! — As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen. Now, many years later, the gang returns to again rob the bank. On their flight they shoot the Marshal. Eddie is the only one to identify the murderer - but is in doubt if he shall be loyal to his new or his old friends.
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The Gunfight at Dodge City
KansasThe whole wild west watched.. And held its breath. — Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
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Blue Denim
MichiganHow could it happen to Janet...so shy, so young, and so much like yourself? Where did she go wrong... and why... WHY... WHY? — Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion. Director Philip Dunne's 1959 film about teenage pregnancy stars Brandon de Wilde, Carol Lynley, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, William Schallert and Roberta Shore.
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The Purple Gang
Michigan The 1920sWhen machine gun mania rocked the nation! — The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
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Party Girl
IllinoisYou'll meet her at the roughest parties ...with the toughest guys in town! — Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
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Some Came Running
Indiana The 1940sEveryone knew Dave was back in town ... and woman-trouble must be close behind ! — Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.
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Cowboy
IllinoisTHE REAL, TRUE STORY OF THE WEST! — Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
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The Brain Eaters
IllinoisCrawling, Slimy Things, Terror-Bent on Destroying the World! — A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town. Sent from Washington to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, a team of investigators discovers that intelligent parasites from inside the "cone" can attach themselves to humans' nervous systems and control their minds, taking control of the authorities and workers, making communication with the outside world impossible, and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to seven people who have thus far been able to avoid possession by these creatures from parts unknown.
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Bullwhip
KansasSADDLE TRAMP AND RED-HEADED HELLCAT...they ripped the West like a bullwhip! — In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
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