John Sturges

John Sturges

John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968).

  • Title: John Sturges
  • Popularity: 0.7602
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1910-01-03
  • Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: John Elliott Sturges
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John Sturges Movies

  • 2015
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    Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

    Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

    7.2 2015 HD

    Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans interweaves stunning newly discovered footage and voice recordings with original interviews. It is the true story of how a cinema legend would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream.

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  • 1986
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    The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

    8 1986 HD

    In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the silver screen.

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  • 2021
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    Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

    Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

    7.2 2021 HD

    The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was set to film in 1966.

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  • 1960
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    The Magnificent Seven

    The Magnificent Seven

    7.508 1960 HD

    An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

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  • 1960
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    The Magnificent Seven

    The Magnificent Seven

    7.508 1960 HD

    An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

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  • 1959
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    Never So Few

    Never So Few

    5.4 1959 HD

    A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

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  • 1958
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    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    6.503 1958 HD

    Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.

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  • 1963
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    The Great Escape

    The Great Escape

    7.935 1963 HD

    The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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  • 1963
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    The Great Escape

    The Great Escape

    7.935 1963 HD

    The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

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  • 1976
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    The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed

    6.629 1976 HD

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

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  • 1957
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    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    7.008 1957 HD

    Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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  • 1965
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    The Hallelujah Trail

    The Hallelujah Trail

    6.1 1965 HD

    A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

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  • 1967
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    Hour of the Gun

    Hour of the Gun

    6.505 1967 HD

    Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

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  • 1974
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    McQ

    McQ

    6.058 1974 HD

    Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.

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  • 1969
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    Marooned

    Marooned

    5.885 1969 HD

    After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

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  • 1965
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    The Satan Bug

    The Satan Bug

    6.1 1965 HD

    A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

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  • 1965
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    The Satan Bug

    The Satan Bug

    6.1 1965 HD

    A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

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  • 1953
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    Jeopardy

    Jeopardy

    6.6 1953 HD

    A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

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  • 1951
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    The People Against O'Hara

    The People Against O'Hara

    5.7 1951 HD

    A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

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  • 1955
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    Bad Day at Black Rock

    Bad Day at Black Rock

    7.288 1955 HD

    One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

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  • 1959
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    Last Train from Gun Hill

    Last Train from Gun Hill

    7.098 1959 HD

    A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.

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  • 1956
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    Backlash

    Backlash

    6.47 1956 HD

    Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

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  • 1972
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    Joe Kidd

    Joe Kidd

    6.435 1972 HD

    A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.

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  • 1958
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    The Law and Jake Wade

    The Law and Jake Wade

    6.6 1958 HD

    Jake Wade breaks Clint Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns to his small-town marshal's job and his fiancée only to find he has been tracked there by Hollister. It seems they were once in a gang together and Jake knows where the proceeds of a bank hold-up are hidden. Hollister and his sidekicks make off into the hills, taking along the trussed-up marshal and his kidnapped bride-to-be to force the lawman to show them where the loot is.

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  • 1950
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    The Capture

    The Capture

    6.056 1950 HD

    A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

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  • 1968
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    Ice Station Zebra

    Ice Station Zebra

    6.3 1968 HD

    A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.

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  • 1962
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    Sergeants 3

    Sergeants 3

    5.4 1962 HD

    Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.

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  • 1950
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    Mystery Street

    Mystery Street

    6.7 1950 HD

    When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

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  • 1947
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    For the Love of Rusty

    For the Love of Rusty

    1 1947 HD

    Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.

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  • 1973
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    The Valdez Horses

    The Valdez Horses

    5.4 1973 HD

    Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.

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  • 1973
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    The Valdez Horses

    The Valdez Horses

    5.4 1973 HD

    Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.

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  • 1948
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    The Sign of the Ram

    The Sign of the Ram

    5.864 1948 HD

    A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

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  • 1951
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    It's a Big Country

    It's a Big Country

    5.3 1951 HD

    Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.

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  • 1946
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    Shadowed

    Shadowed

    6 1946 HD

    Fred J. Johnson scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.

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  • 1953
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    Escape from Fort Bravo

    Escape from Fort Bravo

    6.234 1953 HD

    A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.

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  • 1950
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    The Magnificent Yankee

    The Magnificent Yankee

    5.4 1950 HD

    Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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  • 1955
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    Underwater!

    Underwater!

    5.38 1955 HD

    Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.

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  • 1961
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    By Love Possessed

    By Love Possessed

    4.9 1961 HD

    An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.

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  • 1955
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    The Scarlet Coat

    The Scarlet Coat

    6.4 1955 HD

    An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.

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  • 1952
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    The Girl in White

    The Girl in White

    6.7 1952 HD

    The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

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  • 1951
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    Kind Lady

    Kind Lady

    7 1951 HD

    Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.

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  • 1962
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    A Girl Named Tamiko

    A Girl Named Tamiko

    5 1962 HD

    A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.

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  • 1950
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    Right Cross

    Right Cross

    6.6 1950 HD

    A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

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  • 1949
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    The Walking Hills

    The Walking Hills

    6 1949 HD

    A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.

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  • 1947
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    Keeper of the Bees

    Keeper of the Bees

    1 1947 HD

    Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.

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  • 1946
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    The Man Who Dared

    The Man Who Dared

    3 1946 HD

    A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.

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  • 1946
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    Alias Mr. Twilight

    Alias Mr. Twilight

    5.3 1946 HD

    Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.

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  • 1967
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    Hour of the Gun

    Hour of the Gun

    6.505 1967 HD

    Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

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  • 1941
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    Tom, Dick and Harry

    Tom, Dick and Harry

    5.868 1941 HD

    Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.

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  • 1958
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    Saddle the Wind

    Saddle the Wind

    6.515 1958 HD

    Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.

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  • 1953
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    Fast Company

    Fast Company

    7 1953 HD

    When Carol Maldon inherits her family's stable and a horse with strong racing potential, she begins working with suave trainer Rick Grayton. Intent on owning the horse himself, Rick hinders its true abilities so that he can buy the steed on the cheap. Rick's plan is complicated, however, when he realizes that he's falling for Carol. Making matters worse, the jealous Mercedes Bellway uncovers Rick's deception and uses the information to cause trouble.

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  • 1965
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    The Hallelujah Trail

    The Hallelujah Trail

    6.1 1965 HD

    A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

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  • 1947
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    Thunderbolt

    Thunderbolt

    6.1 1947 HD

    Documentary about the U.S. Air Force's P-47 Thunderbolt bomber's role in the Italian Campaign during WW2.

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  • 1940
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    They Knew What They Wanted

    They Knew What They Wanted

    5.8 1940 HD

    While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.

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  • 1941
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    Scattergood Meets Broadway

    Scattergood Meets Broadway

    1 1941 HD

    Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...

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  • 1948
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    Best Man Wins

    Best Man Wins

    6.7 1948 HD

    Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.

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  • 1942
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    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    6.2 1942 HD

    A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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