Robert Parrish

Robert Parrish

Robert R. Parrish (born 4 January 1916, Columbus, Georgia – 4 December 1995, Southampton, New York) was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul. Parrish was the son of factory cashier Gordon R. Parrish and Laura R. Parrish. In the mid-1920s, the family moved from Georgia to Los Angeles and Parrish and his sisters Beverly and Helen began obtaining work as actors soon thereafter. Parrish made his film debut in the 1927 Our Gang short Olympic Games. (Their mother, Laura R. Parrish, was an actress as well and appeared in a few films of the 1940s.) He appeared in the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931), and in several films for John Ford. Ford then enlisted him as an assistant editor in 1936 on Mary of Scotland, and as a sound editor on Young Mr Lincoln (1939). Parrish worked as an assistant editor and sound editor on other Ford movies as Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Parrish and Ford were in the United States Navy during the Second World War, and worked on documentary and training films including The Battle of Midway (1942). In 1947 he won an Oscar for his debut as a feature film editor on Robert Rossen's high tempo boxing drama Body and Soul; the award was shared with Francis Lyon. Parrish was later nominated for another Rossen film – the political drama All the King’s Men (1949); he shared the nomination with Al Clark. Parrish went on to contribute his technical talents to a host of highly regarded films and made a promising directorial debut in 1951 with the gripping revenge melodrama, Cry Danger. His subsequent output met with varying success. The Purple Plain (1954) was nominated for "Best British film" at the 8th British Academy Film Awards. One of the most notorious of his films was the James Bond Parody Casino Royale (1967), in which he was one of the film's five directors. His last film, on which he shared co-director credit with Bertrand Tavernier, was Mississippi Blues (1983). Parrish wrote two memoirs, Growing Up in Hollywood (1976) and its sequel Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1988). Of the first, Kevin Brownlow wrote, "His stories about these pictures were marvellous in themselves, and he often came at them sideways, so not only the punchline but the situation took you by surprise. We all entreated him to write them down and in 1976 he did so, producing one of the most enchanting - and hilarious - books about the picture business ever written. It was called Growing Up in Hollywood and it ought to be reprinted in this centenary year." Summing up Parrish's career, Allen Grant Richards wrote, "Other than his excellent editing work and early directing, Parrish may be most remembered as storyteller from his two books of Hollywood memoirs."

  • Title: Robert Parrish
  • Popularity: 0.6418
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1916-01-04
  • Place of Birth: Columbus, Georgia, USA
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Robert Parrish Movies

  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.7 1932 HD

    A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.

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  • 1937
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    History Is Made at Night

    History Is Made at Night

    6.618 1937 HD

    An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    9 1938 HD

    A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.

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  • 1927
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    7.821 1927 HD

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

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  • 1931
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    1 1931 HD

    Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

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  • 1931
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    City Lights

    City Lights

    8.258 1931 HD

    A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

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  • 1928
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    Riley the Cop

    Riley the Cop

    5.6 1928 HD

    In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

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  • 1933
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    Doctor Bull

    Doctor Bull

    6.5 1933 HD

    In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!

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  • 1935
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    Steamboat Round the Bend

    Steamboat Round the Bend

    7.5 1935 HD

    A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

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  • 1930
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    The Right to Love

    The Right to Love

    5.3 1930 HD

    A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

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  • 1935
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    The Informer

    The Informer

    6.769 1935 HD

    Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

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  • 1930
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    7.746 1930 HD

    When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

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  • 1930
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    Anna Christie

    Anna Christie

    6 1930 HD

    Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

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  • 1930
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    Up the River

    Up the River

    5.8 1930 HD

    Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    1 2010 HD

    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

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  • 1990
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    Blue Bayou

    Blue Bayou

    1 1990 HD

    A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.

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  • 1993
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    Hollywood Blues

    Hollywood Blues

    1 1993 HD

    Having met him in 1993 when he was invited by Enrico Ghezzi to Taormina, Ciro Giorgini and Fabio Troncarelli film this interview with Robert Parrish, a living legend. Parrish, as he recounts in his autobiography "Growing up in Hollywood", has spanned seven decades of American cinema

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  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.817 1940 HD

    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

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  • 1959
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    The Wonderful Country

    The Wonderful Country

    6.085 1959 HD

    Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.

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  • 1951
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    The Mob

    The Mob

    6.663 1951 HD

    An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.

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  • 1951
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    Cry Danger

    Cry Danger

    6.648 1951 HD

    After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

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  • 1967
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1967 HD

    Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

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  • 1969
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    Doppelgänger

    Doppelgänger

    6.232 1969 HD

    A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.

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  • 1947
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    A Double Life

    A Double Life

    6.3 1947 HD

    A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

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  • 1949
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    Caught

    Caught

    6.552 1949 HD

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.

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  • 1971
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    A Town Called Bastard

    A Town Called Bastard

    5 1971 HD

    A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.

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  • 1947
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    6.67 1947 HD

    Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

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  • 1954
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    The Purple Plain

    The Purple Plain

    6.5 1954 HD

    An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.

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  • 1957
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    Fire Down Below

    Fire Down Below

    5.8 1957 HD

    Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

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  • 1974
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    The Marseille Contract

    The Marseille Contract

    5.931 1974 HD

    An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

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  • 1968
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    Duffy

    Duffy

    6.1 1968 HD

    Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.

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  • 1952
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    Assignment: Paris

    Assignment: Paris

    5.667 1952 HD

    Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

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  • 1958
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    Saddle the Wind

    Saddle the Wind

    6.5 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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  • 1952
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    My Pal Gus

    My Pal Gus

    8 1952 HD

    A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.

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  • 1953
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    Rough Shoot

    Rough Shoot

    6.2 1953 HD

    An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.

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  • 1955
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    Lucy Gallant

    Lucy Gallant

    7 1955 HD

    A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

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  • 1967
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    The Bobo

    The Bobo

    6 1967 HD

    Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins

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  • 1984
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    Mississippi Blues

    Mississippi Blues

    7.1 1984 HD

    The two directors meander through rural Mississippi in search of the spirit of local music and society. Highlights the heritage of William Faulkner, the role of Black churches, and gospel and blues music.

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

    A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.

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  • 1952
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    The San Francisco Story

    The San Francisco Story

    4.571 1952 HD

    After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan, that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!

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  • 1948
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    No Minor Vices

    No Minor Vices

    6.714 1948 HD

    Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.

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  • 1939
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    Stagecoach

    Stagecoach

    7.616 1939 HD

    A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

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  • 1965
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    Up from the Beach

    Up from the Beach

    8 1965 HD

    After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

    A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.

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  • 1943
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    Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

    Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

    5.7 1943 HD

    A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    7 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.

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  • 1943
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    December 7th

    December 7th

    5.8 1943 HD

    "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

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  • 1945
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    That Justice Be Done

    That Justice Be Done

    5 1945 HD

    Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

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  • 1942
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    The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway

    5.84 1942 HD

    The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.

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  • 1950
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    No Sad Songs for Me

    No Sad Songs for Me

    6.2 1950 HD

    Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.

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  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.817 1940 HD

    Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    6.4 2010 HD

    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

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  • 1970
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    5 1970 HD

    Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

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  • 1970
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    8.473 1970 HD

    An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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  • 1970
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    7.213 1970 HD

    A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

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