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English
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Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
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English
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Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor and sentenced to hang for trespassing. But Van Horn stages a breakout with other unjustly incarcerated prisoners, resurfacing as the rakish Barracuda to command the pirate waterways, rescue fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenge the wrongs done to him.
6) Promise
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English
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Bob, a feckless bachelor, promised his mother that at her death he would care for his schizophrenic younger brother D.J. but he becomes apprehensive when the time comes. Facing up to his responsibility, Bob tries his best, but his set ways and D.J.'s erratic behavior mix like oil and water. Giving his promise one last shot, Bob takes D.J. on a fishing trip to the secluded lake where they vacationed as children. Here, the rush of memories transforms...
9) Honolulu
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Handsome movie heartthrob Brooks Mason is tired of being besieged by adoring fans. When he meets his exact double, a shy Hawaiian plantation owner named George Smith, they decide to switch for a month. Mason sails to Hawaii, falls in love with a beautiful dancer. Smith is sent to a New York hospital, thanks to overzealous fans.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
"Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner are star-crossed lovers in this steamy tale of a woman scorned. set in 1890s New Orleans. Wrongly believing Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner) had stood him up on the eve of their elopement, Dr. Mark Lucas (Mitchum) has returned from South Africa accompanied by Corinne (Janis Carter), a woman he married on the rebound. Determined to win him back, Barbara bribes her cousin (Melvin Douglas) to break up the marriage, coldblooded...
13) Gung Ho
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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None
Description
Diana is outwardly the hit of the party but inwardly virtuous and idealistic. Her friend Ann is thoroughly selfish and amoral. Both are attracted to Ben Black, soon-to-be millionaire. He takes Diana's flirtations with other boys as a sign of disinterest in him and marries Ann. Big mistake. Ben and Diana begin to realize their true love for each other and plan a new life together as drunken Ann falls down the stairs to her death--Imdb.com
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt - such is the incontrovertible law which pardons the innocent and condemns the guilty. But just how fallible is the process of law? To what extent can deceit, prejudice and the cruel powers of fate intervene to set a murderer free, or send an innocent man to the electric chair ...
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective...
17) On borrowed time
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
18) Foreign affairs
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A spinsterish, no-nonsense college teacher from New England hopes to do plenty of reading on her trans-Atlantic flight to Europe. But Vinnie spends the entire nine hours trying to politely evade the talkative Chuck Mumpson's non-stop chit-chat. When they finally land in London, Vinnie goes her own way to begin an extended research project at Oxford Library and Chuck just goes away ... or so she hopes.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gilded Age chanteuse Rosie O'Grady, bless her dear departed soul, had three daughters. Poppa approves. Maureen bubbles with teenage enthusiasm. Eldest daughter Katie is ready to settle down. And until her long-time romantic secret gets out, Poppa again approves. Then there's Patricia, who yearns for the vaudeville stage. Poppa is furious! All three ladies shine, but Haver's Patricia is the daughter in question in this nostalgic musical gem.
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