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Hollywood actress Shauna Jackson left the Greek island of Ithos twenty years ago and thought she would never return. Reeling from a scandal that has tarnished her success, she is drawn back to the beautiful olive groves and endless azure skies — and to the secrets she has tried hard to forget. Looking down from his hilltop villa, enigmatic tycoon Demetrios Theodosis knows he can't change the past, and looks to the future through his tempestuous...
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A gang led by banker Calvin Drake plans to drive off ranchers from their land to profit from a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.
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Filmed during Cash's concert tour of the US in the late Sixties, this film offers a carefully airbrushed account of the star's life on and off stage. While attracting huge audiences wherever he goes, as well as winning awards, he remains eminently normal, the kind of man who willingly signs autographs, listens to pieces of doggerel composed by adoring fans, and poses for innumerable photos
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An alcoholic, falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. The drama depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage due to alcoholism as ambitious ad man Joe Clay (Robertson) gets his wife Kristen to join him in drinking bouts that soon begin to destroy their lives...This is the highly acclaimed 1958 live TV version.
13) The Haven
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A dark and glittering literary novel for fans of Will Dean and Lucy Atkins from the author of The Cliff House....
It was meant to be paradise...
Winterfall Farm, spectacular and remote, stands over Bodmin Moor. Wanting an escape from the constraints of conventional life, Kit and Tara move to the isolated smallholding with their daughter, Skye, and a group of friends. Living off-grid and working the land, they soon begin to enjoy the fruits of their...
14) Clinton Road
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Seeking closure after his wife goes missing, a widowed firefighter must unlock the secrets of the haunted rural New Jersey road where she disappeared.
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Missing, presumed dead...
For Squadron Leader Alex Everton dogfights in his Spitfire have become his way of life. He knows every time he goes up in the air, he might not make it home again, but he'll keep fighting anyway.
The boys in blue seem to be winning the Battle of Britain, but during a raid over Dieppe the Luftwaffe gain the upper hand and Alex's spitfire is shot down. Alex expects to either drown in the water beneath him or be incarcerated...
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Two sisters. Two seeds of power. One Mage's Guild, and an unprecedented new power-but which sister does it belong to? Cadence and her sister possess the seeds of glory and ruin-or so their father always insisted. Cadence never understood what he meant until Airlie's seed of power is activated, turning her into the most powerful mage in generations. Despite knowing it must mean her own dormant seed is much more malevolent, Cadence is swept away to...
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Fun loving Pearl White, (played by Betty Hutton) working in a garment shop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play with a comedy act. Her brief stage career leads her into the "new" moving pictures, where she comes to love the world of silent films, becoming queen of the movie serials. But the consequences of movie stardom are more than her leading man can take.
19) Chained for Life
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Conjoined twins Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton (Daisy and Violet Hilton) have a successful
vaudeville singing act. Their manager Hinkley (Allen Jenkins) thinks a publicity stunt will
reinvigorate their career. He pays stunt shooter Andre Pariseau (Mario Laval) to fake a romance
with one of the twins. Vivian dislikes Andre and wants nothing to do with the scheme, but
Dorothy agrees and falls in love.