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81) Gaslight
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"Lights flicker and dim. Footsteps sound from a sealed-off attic. Mysterious events only vulnerable young Paula sees and hears make her fear she's losing her mind, exactly what treacherous spouse Gregory hopes"--Container.
82) PT 109
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Retelling of John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a battle-scarred PT boat. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing one badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island.
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Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr is the world-famous originator of zip-lock, screw-top brain surgery. Into his empty love life runs Delores Benedict, a stunning beauty with whom he falls in love while poking inside her gray matter. Unfortunately, the cranium cutter sweeps his patient into marriage before discovering that her gorgeousness hides a calculating heart of stone.
85) Naughty Marietta
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A French princess arrives incognito in colonial New Orleans to avoid marrying a nobleman she doesn't love. Upon arriving, she falls for a swaggering soldier, who wards off pirates and a king to keep her for himself.
86) On borrowed time
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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.
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Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick.
Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden.
The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves.
When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher.
I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...
89) Julie
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Has beautiful Julie Benton married a murderer, an insanely jealous man who killed her first husband in hopes of marrying her? When Julie learns the answer is yes, she escapes him in a desperate attempt to forge a new life, taking a job as a stewardess. But her husband has no intention of letting Julie go, ever.
90) Bitter sweet
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On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music.
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Spring is here and Yogi and Boo Boo wake up from hibernation only to find that some major changes have taken place while they slept the winter away. Jellystone Park is closing down! No more Jellystone Park means no more tourists, and that means no more picnic baskets to pilfer! Yogi, Boo Boo and their new friends, the bear cub triplets, take off in Yogi's homemade getaway mobile, the Supercar, in search of a new home.
93) Cleopatra Jones
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A beautiful, tough drug enforcement agent intercedes when a menacing drug ring attempts to stage a retaliatory raid on a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation center.
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A singing-dancing sister act is helped by a mysterious "somebody" who buys them an empty warehouse, where they can open up an ideal canteen to entertain the servicemen. Courtship by the Army & Navy, the mystery of who "somebody" might be, and a multitude of musical numbers occupy their time at the canteen.
96) Parrish
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"[A] starry saga of life in the verdant Tobacco Valley. Parrish enters this 'Million Dollar Mile' with only his name and his ambitions. He'll need little else traveling a rocky road to maturity and success. En route he'll have the support of his mother, the devoted love of a farm girl, the counsel of a savvy grower and confrontation with ruthless tycoon Judd Raike. Raike may control the valley but might not be able to stop an iron-willed youth on...
98) Red light
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Johnny Torno thinks everything's "jake" thanks to the safe return of his brother Jess from a POW camp. But trouble is brewing in the form of his ex-employee, embezzling book keeper Nick Cherney, who's currently serving time for dipping his hand into Johnny's trucking company till. Cherney tasks fellow con Rocky with revenge delivery, and the deed sends Johnny out into the streets, desperately searching for a missing Bible and the meaning behind a...
99) Key Largo
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A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
100) Above and beyond
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"If you could press a button that would sacrifice 100,000 people to save a million, would you do it? In the midst of World War II, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. of the Army Air Corps is asked that question, looks at the buzzer his superior officer puts in his hand -- and presses. Tibbets' unflinching answer gives him the command of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that will drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and help bring the war to a sudden end. [A] carefully detailed...
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