1907-1994
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Language
English
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Dexter Riley, a handsome but bumbling Medfield College student, accidentally becomes The Computer Who Knew Too Much when he is transformed into a genius after an electrifying computer mishap. Dexter now poses a threat to a local gangster's dangerous gambling operation as the new intellect becomes a pawn in the tug-of-war between the greedy college deans and the underworld.
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Criterion collection volume 935
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English
Description
A tale of erotic passion and danger set amid the tumult of carnival in turn-of-the twentieth century Spain. Through a series of flashbacks, Captain Costelar recounts to the young Antonio Galvan the story of his harrowing affair with the notorious seductress Concha Perez, warning his listener to gird himself against her charms.
47) Yojimbo
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Criterion collection volume 52
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English
Description
Two warring clans vying for power bid for the services of a wandering samurai-for-hire.
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Criterion collection volume 696
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English
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Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
51) 3-D rarities II
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English
Description
The first is a superb collection of short 3-D oddities, including the long-lost A Day in the Country; The Black Swan; Mid-Century Memories in Kodachrome Stereo; the mysterious Polaroid-filmed Games in Depth; Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, a West German-Spanish co-production originally filmed in Hi-Fi Stereo 70; and a trailer for the 1983 documentary The 3-D Movie. Aspect ratio depends on television model.
52) Midas run
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English
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John Pedley, a retired British Secret Service agent, recruits writer Mike Warden and devises an elaborate heist of an airplane cargo carrying a government shipment of $15,000,000 in gold.
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English
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Twenty years ago, a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne's wife and on-stage assistant without a head, and their baby daughter Cassie without a mother. Now The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizeable inheritance, if she'll spend seven nights in his spooky mansion. With a fearless young reporter at her side, Cassie braves terrors that could be the work of evil spirits.
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English
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Hands across the table: When a struggling manicurist meets a charming playboy, they soon discover that neither of them have what the other really wants... money!
Love before breakfast: Despite the fact that she is engage to another man, Kay Colby is wooed by a successful businessman who will do anything for her love-- whether she likes it or not.
My man Godfrey: A ditzy socialite stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump and offers him work...
59) Saboteur
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English
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Wartime thriller about a Los Angles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.