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Man in the Saddle 1951 A small farmer and rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerfull neighbour When the neighbour even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence

Repeat Performance 1947 Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun We dont know how or why All we know is men are banging on her door and she escapes There is a notable dialogue as she makes her way to a New Years celebration with Richard Basehart as the poet William Willia

The Skys the Limit (1943) Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.

The Hard Way (1943) Ambitious Helen Chernin (Ida Lupino) pushes her talented younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with broken down song-and-dance man Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) so that the two women can leave the dirty steel town where they live. Runkel's partner Paul Collins (Denni

This Is the Army (1943) In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the war, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father's assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called This is the Army. B

The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love with a science-fiction writer wh

A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a childstar in his familys vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life story of George M. Cohan, who produ

A hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.