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The Bashful Bachelor
ArkansasLum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a racehorse. Lum is also too timid to propose to Geraldine, so he involves Abner in a "rescue" effort which nearly gets both of them killed. They try again, and this time Geraldine is impressed. Lum writes a proposal note, but Abner, by mistake, delivers it to the Widder Abernathy, who has been ready to remarry for years. This puts Lum in a peck of trouble until the sheriff appears with the Widder's long-gone and hiding husband.
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Citizen Kane
Florida The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sIt's terrific! — Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Dumbo
Florida The 1940sThe One...The Only...The FABULOUS... — Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
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Sergeant York
Tennessee The 1910sMissiles! Jets! Tanks! ... It's still the guy with guts and a gun who wins the war! — Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Tobacco Road
Georgia The 1930sON THE SCREEN AT LAST! The Picture you've waited eight years to see...Picturized by the men who gave you "GRAPES OF WRATH" — Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Moon Over Miami
FloridaPOOR GIRL'S PARADISE! Two sisters storm the Miami Millionaire Colony! — After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
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The Little Foxes
Alabama The 1900s...the film version of the stage hit, as the ruthless beauty whose ambition spelt the doom of three men — The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?
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Swamp Water
GeorgiaA hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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The Flame of New Orleans
Louisiana The 1840sIn old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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Lady from Louisiana
Louisiana The 1890sNorthern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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My Life with Caroline
FloridaA man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
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Birth of the Blues
LouisianaStrike Up The Band ! * Here comes happiness . . . in a merry medley of romance . . . and rhythm ! — Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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Mercy Island
FloridaThe beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
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Flight Command
Florida The 1940sT-H-R-I-L-L AMERICA! Here come The Flying "HELL CATS"! — A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
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The Biscuit Eater
GeorgiaTHERE is real DRAMA in this story of a BOY...and his DOG! — Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
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Dreaming Out Loud
ArkansasTHE FAMOUS RADIO STARS... Answering the demand of 20,000,000 fans! — Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
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Carolina Moon
North CarolinaA RODEO STAR OF THE WEST... becomes a shooting star... way down in Carolina! — A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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Gone with the Wind
Georgia The 1870s The 1860sThe greatest romance of all time! — The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,” during the American Civil War.
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The Cat and the Canary
LouisianaA CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE! — Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas 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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Zenobia
Mississippi The 1870sShe Brought a New Kind of Love to the South! — A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Way Down South
Louisiana The 1850sIn the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
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Man of Conquest
Tennessee The 1830sAmerica -- First, Last -- Always! — The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
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Jezebel
Louisiana The 1850sThe South's Greatest Romance — In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Arkansas 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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The Cowboy and the Lady
FloridaMERLE ropes Gary! GARY brands Merle! — Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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The Buccaneer
Louisiana The 1810sThe greatest adventure romance in Cecil B De Mille's glorious gallery of screen triumphs! — French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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The Toy Wife
Louisiana The 1860sGay . . Rich In Romance — A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
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Josette
LouisianaVoila! It's the oo-la-laughingest escapade in the History of Love! Gayer than a Mardi Gras . . . and merry with Gordon and Revel's latest songs ! — Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Artists & Models
FloridaAn ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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People of the Cumberland
Tennessee The 1930sThe film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry. The introduction of the Highlander Folk School in 1931 by educator Myles Horton and the movement to bring labor union representation to the region are shown as means of empowering the population. Efforts are made to stop the union activities with the murder of a local organizer, but eventually the union movement is able to take root with the local workforce.
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Second Honeymoon
FloridaLove is better the second time around. — Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. The fun wears thin for Bob as his seriousness and possessiveness take over. When Bob leaves for a few days to settle a labor dispute at his factory, Vicky and Raoul spend time together, Winchell's column implies untoward behavior, Bob barks at Vicky, and that gets her back up. Can things be sorted out? Help comes from Raoul's upright valet, McTavish, and a principled cigarette girl, Joy, whom Raoul picks up.
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Drums of Destiny
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Old Louisiana
Louisiana The 1800sThe Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.
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Down to the Sea
FloridaGreek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Naughty Marietta
Louisiana The 18th CenturyJeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy together for the first time! — A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.
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The Ghost Goes West
Florida The 1930s The 18th CenturyThe most romantic ghost you've ever seen! — An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.
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So Red the Rose
Mississippi The 1860sSO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer, played by Randolph Scott.
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She Gets Her Man
ArkansasEsmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
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Belle of the Nineties
Louisiana The 1890sCabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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The 9th Guest
LouisianaTheir Host Was a Spectre … Their Hostess Disaster! — Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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Beloved
South Carolina The 1830sBeloved is a 1934 American drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Paul Gangelin and George O'Neil. The film stars John Boles, Gloria Stuart, Morgan Farley, Ruth Hall, Albert Conti and Dorothy Peterson.
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The Story of Temple Drake
MississippiThe coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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Flying Down to Rio
FloridaToo big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music! — A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Laughter in Hell
Tennessee The 1890sARE CHAIN GANG MEN REAL HEROES of ROMANCE? — In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Bed of Roses
LouisianaThe girl who took a shortcut down the primrose path! — A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
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Arizona to Broadway
LouisianaIn the small town of Larrup, Arizona, Smiley, a con-artist traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris and Ambrose, persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to accompany him to a carnival, where Kingfish sells a large number of bottles of Bambo, an elixir...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Georgia The 1930s The 1920sSix sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience! — A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Veiled Aristocrats
North CarolinaA young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.
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Safe in Hell
LouisianaTo avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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