Gregory Peck
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English
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This adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway's best-known short stories significantly expands on the original. As writer Harry Street lies gravely wounded from an African hunting accident he recalls his one true love, Cynthia Green, whom he lost because of his obsession for roaming the world. Meanwhile, Street's current wife tends to his wounds and tries to restore in him the will to survive.
2) Moby Dick
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English
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Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
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English
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The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
7) The bravados
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English
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An expert tracker and gunman is anxious to see justice exacted upon four violent men whom he believes raped and murdered his wife.
10) Duel in the sun
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English
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A woman taken into the home of a wealthy rancher becomes the subject of a tug-of-war between his two sons.
11) Yellow sky
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English
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A band of robbers are running from the law, and they find an almost abandoned town. An old prosecutor and his granddaughter have been living there. Realizing that they have gold, the robbers have a plan of taking it, but one robber turns against them.
12) MacArthur
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English
Description
Biographical drama of the controversial general, from 1942 in the Philippines to his dismissal by Truman for insubordination in 1951.
13) Arabesque
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English
Description
A romantic thriller about an Oxford professor who is hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message and befriends his exotic companion.
14) I walk the line
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English
Description
A southern sheriff, intending on bringing a man in for moonshining, instead falls for his young daughter and makes sure the feds don't arrest the man. With a deputy's murder and his marriage over, will the sheriff still get his girl?
15) The omen
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English
Description
A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the Biblical prophecy of the warning which will foretell the coming of Armageddon. The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil will begin with the birth of the son of Satan -- in human form.
18) Night people
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English
Description
"After World War II, an American GI is kidnapped by Soviets who hope to exchange him for two ex-Nazis hiding in West Berlin."--Container.
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English
Description
Harry Street, a frustrated author/big game hunter lies dying in the shadow of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reliving his life, adventures, ambitions, frustrations ... and many loves. Wounded both in his leg and in his spirit, Street lapses in and out of consciousness while memories of his love life pass before his eyes: from the spoiled countess who sought to possess him to the one who loved but left him, taking his spark of life with her long before...