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Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine star in this taut drama of a World War II veteran whose return to his Indiana hometown catalyzes change among people whose failures and frustrations have built up the point of explosion in SOME CAME RUNNING. Dave Hirsh (Sinatra--From Here to Eternity) has faced the horror of war and endured the disillusionment of trying to make a living as a writer. When he returns to Parktown, Indiana, Hirsh...

In 1917, in a German camp, a group of French prisoners - including the aristocratic Boieldieu, Maréchal the foreman and the Jewish banker Rosenthal - prepare to escape. At the last moment, they are moved to a fortress commanded by Von Rauffenstein, who becomes friendly with Boieldieu.

Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as Roy Bean in director John Huston's saga very loosely based on the legend of the West's famous hanging judge who prospers while ruling a desolate West Texas town and worshipping the three loves of his life--an actress he has never met, his faithful mistress and a beer-drinking bear.

A raucous western comedy, is punctuated with a classic Lerner and Loewe musical score, including “They Call the Wind Maria” and “I Talk to the Trees.” The story of a gold mining boomtown full of brawny men centres on the work-and-play partnership of Ben and Pardner (Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) and the delicate wife they share (Jean Seberg).

Academy award winner Gene Hackman stars with Liv Ullman in this story of a Western rancher who sends for a mail-order bride. But instead of the compliant woman he sought, the rancher marries a headstrong wife determined to civilize him. Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger.

It has been fifteen years since the nuclear disaster. In the middle of a vacant lot stands an old building inhabited by some rather strange people whose primary concern is food. The entire Tapioca family; Mr. and Mrs. Interligator, a couple of dreadful snobs; the Kube brothers, who do nothing but manufacture little round boxes that moo when turned upside-down; Mr. Potin, holed up with his frogs and snails; and Miss Plusse, a lady of uncertain virtue;...

The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.

Set in the American West of the 1940s, director Alan J. Pakula’s COMES A HORSEMAN gives us a pair of little-guy ranchers (Jane Fonda, James Caan) who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron (Jason Robards) determined to expand his empire at whatever cost. Shot by the incomparable Gordon Willis, with music by the great Michael Small, and featuring an indelible Oscar®-nominated performance from longtime stuntman Richard Farnsworth....

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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.