- The Fighting Lady (info)
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- William Wyler - "The Fighting Lady," directed by William Wyler, provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier, a vessel that is "enormous, wonderful, and strange to us." After profiling the various activities of the soldiers' day and following the ship's voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese figh... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Night of the Living Dead (info)
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- Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner - In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Escape From Sobibor (info)
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- Jack Gold - Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Power of Nightmares (info)
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- Adam Curtis - This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Abraham Lincoln (info)
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- D.W. Griffith - A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Suddenly (info)
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- "Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Eve of Destruction (info)
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- Ed Lackey, Debra Daly - This is the first music video by the Berkeley CA. based band KUBICAL XPHERE. The video is made up of various public domain clips from Prelinger Archives and other sources. Many popular archive clips are cleverly woven into the nearly 7 minute song "Eve of Destruction" by KUBICAL XPHERE. Featuring Ed Nelson as "Ed" in the role that made him famous. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Reefer Madness (info)
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- George A. Hirliman - Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, "Reefer Madness" tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. (The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use o... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Utopia (info)
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- Raymond Eger - Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Robinson Crusoe Land) is last film Laurel and Hardy made together. It was filmed and produced in Europe. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- His Girl Friday (info)
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- Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- My Man Godfrey (info)
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- Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds "forgotten man" Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Bloody Pit of Horror (info)
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- Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker - A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner. Find out more about this film on it's IMDB page. There are versions of the movie in XviD (DivX), Theora (Ogg Vorbis), PSP (997 MB MPEG4) and iPod (556 MB MPEG4). Please leave a review if you download one of those versions to let me know if they did or didn't work for you. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Dressed To Kill (info)
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- Aka 'Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill' - features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- My Favorite Brunette (info)
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- Daniel Dare - Bob Hope comedy with Dorothy Lamour. | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Disneyland Dream (info)
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- Robbins Barstow - In July 1956, the five-member Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, won a free trip to newly-opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in a nationwide contest. This 30-minute amateur documentary film tells the fabulous story of their fun-filled, dream-come-true, family travel adventure, filmed on the scene at Walt Disney's "Magic Kingdom" by Robbins Barstow. In December 2008, "Disneyland Dream" was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge (info)
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- Robbins Barstow - Sixteen year old Robbins Barstow, an Amateur Cinema League member and a fan of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies, rounded up his siblings and friends and led them into the wilds of Granby, Connecticut for this epic tale of a journey into Edgar Rice Burroughs' Africa. Also available with commentary by the filmmaker on the DVD "Living Room Cinema: Films From Home Movie Day, Vol. I". - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Stranger (info)
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- Sam Spiegel - Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Great Guy (info)
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- Grand National Pictures - James Cagney plays the plucky Irish crusader, Johnny Cave, who fights against corruption at the Weights And Measures Department. James Cagney is great in this movie. It shows why he was such a huge movie star - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Meet John Doe (info)
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- You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Big Show, The (info)
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- Mack V. Wright - You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Royal Wedding (info)
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- Arthur Freed - Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals, they go about the usual comedic pursuit of love. This film is probably most memorable for Astaire's dream sequence that has him dancing on the ceiling. The source is not of the best quality, with analog artifacts and blownout color... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Penny Serenade (info)
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- Touching romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Find out more about this film at its IMDB page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Three Stooges Episodes (info)
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- 4 Episodes Of The 3 Stooges. Downloads include: Disorder In The Court Brideless Groom Sing A Song Of Six Pants Malice In The Palace - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- D.O.A. (info)
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- Leo C. Popkin - D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph MatÃ, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him â“ and why â“ before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police station to repo... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Lady Frankenstein (info)
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- Umberto Borsato - From IMDb: When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- They Made Me a Criminal (info)
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- Hal Wallis - Boxer Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield) knocks out a rival in a postfight brawl. Thinking he committed murder, he flees to an Arizona ranch run by hard-as-nails Goldie (Ann Sheridan) and her feisty mother(May Robson) and staffed by Leo Gorcey and the Dead End Kids. Though Johnny is relentlessly dogged by Detective Monty Phelan (Claude Rains), the Kids convince him to finance their future gas station by training for and winning a high stakes prizefight... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The House On Haunted Hill (info)
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- William Castle - Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night in the murderous mansion. Watch for the great Elisha Cook Jr,(he played Wilmer in the "Maltese Falcon") as the groveling homeowner. The eerie looking home used for the exterior shots is the Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- What To Do In A Zombie Attack (info)
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- Lone Bannana Productions - A series of 1950 short films on how to survive a Zombie Holocaust. This film was created using a lot of Public Domain films from the Prelinger Archives, so it makes sense that it should reside in Archive.org What To Do In A Zombie Attack DVD What To Do In A Zombie Attack DVD - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Private Snuffy Smith (info)
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- Edward Gross - You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Flying Deuces (info)
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- Boris Morros - This was the first comedy that Laurel and Hardy starred in without producer Hal Roach, although they had previously been "guest stars" in four MGM movies. After they finished making "The Flying Deuces," they returned to Hal Roach Studios to make films. In order to make this movie, producer Boris Morros bought the rights to the 1931 French film "Les deux legionnaires," which had a similar plot. "The Flying Deuces" was Morros' first independent production and it was shot in continuity over a span ... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Cherry Knight (info)
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- Carnival of Souls (info)
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- Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following. Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Panorama Ephemera (info)
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- Rick Prelinger - PANORAMA EPHEMERA (2004, 89:35 min., color and black and white) is a collage of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral (industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring the conflicted landscapes of twentieth-century America. The films' often-skewed visions construct an American history filled with horror and hope, unreeling in familiar and unexpected ways. PANORAMA EPHEMERA focuses on familiar and mythical activities and images in America (1626-1978)... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Iron Mask (info)
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- Douglas Fairbanks - A swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas adventure featuring Douglas Fairbanks. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Atomic Bomb Test - Operation Cue (info)
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- Federal Civil Defense Administration - Usually shown in black and white, this is the original color version (slightly edited) of the 1955 atom bomb test in Nevada, showing the effects on test houses and utilities located at various distances from the blast. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Mr. Robinson Crusoe (info)
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- Douglas Fairbanks - Taken from IMDB: While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local materials. Meanwhile, on a nearby island, a young maiden flees her arranged wedding... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Baby Love (info)
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- Guido Coen - Poor Luci, she is a 15 year old English schoolgirl about to embark on a promising career as the high-school mattress when she comes home one day from school to find her Mum as dead as a door knob in the tub. You see her Mum has cut her wrists after a long unrewarding career as the town mattress. Fortunately for Luci, her Mum's childhood friend is now a very successful upper-middle class doctor who has decided to take Luci home to his family (on a trial basis)... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia Part I (info)
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- Frank Capra - "The Battle of Russia," Chapter V of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. Part One shows how the Nazi regime, frustrated by the tenacity of British resistance, sets its sights on the Soviet Union instead. As it follows the Nazi march into Russian territory, the film provides a brief summary of the attempts of foreign powers to invade Russia over the past seven hundred years... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Horror Express (info)
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- In 1906, on a train racing through Siberia, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are engulfed in nightmare when a frozen missing link comes to life. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and, with the push of a button, quickly create the structure of a DVD to watch on your television (after burning with ImgBurn or the like). - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- New Adventures of Tarzan (info)
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- Rhythm and Blues Revue (info)
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- Ben Frye - Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Mclintock (info)
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- Andrew McLaglen, director - This great comedy western stars John Wayne,Maureen O'Hara,Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers,Chill Wills, and Strother Marten. There is a hilarious mudhole fight scene at the end. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Little Princess, The (info)
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- You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. This film contributed courtesy of SabuCat Productions. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia Part II (info)
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- Frank Capra - "The Battle of Russia," Chapter V of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. In Part Two, the German army falls victim to the Soviet scorched-earth strategy. The Russian forces flee from the start, retreating deep into their homeland, drawing the Nazis farther and farther away from the German border. As the Red Army falls back, it destroys infrastructure and natural resources, making it difficult for the Nazi army to live off the land... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Road To Happiness (info)
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- A down-and-out singer turns to radio acting and finds his life turned around. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Hydrogen Bomb Test (info)
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- U.S. Government - This is a clip of the Hydrogen Bomb test at Enewetak Atoll on November 1, 1952, and the first time one was exploded. The fireball was big enough to cover most of Manhattan Island. This clip show more of the aftermath of the nuclear cloud than do most films. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Fast And The Furious (info)
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- Roger Corman - http://imdb.com/title/tt0046969/ A man wrongly imprisoned for murder (John Ireland) breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Tarzan's Revenge (info)
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- You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Scarlet Street (info)
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- Fritz Lang, Walter Wanger - German director Fritz Lang is best known for the highly influential films from relatively early in his career, especially Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). But he also had a brief Hollywood heyday during the mid 1940s, when he made some of his best films. Scarlet Street has been claimed by film noir. This attribution is understandable. The lighting is dark, with heavy use of shadows. The characters are all shady as well... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Last Woman On Earth (info)
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- You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- La Ciociara (Two Women) (info)
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- Carlo Ponti - The Film tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sophia Loren). It was the first time an actress won an acting award for a non-English speaking role. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- San Francisco Earthquake footage (info)
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- Underwater Atomic Bomb Test At Bikini Atoll (info)
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- U. S. Military - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Hemp for Victory (info)
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- US government propaganda film made during WWII touting the virtues of hemp. The film was aimed at farmers at a time when the miltary was facing a shortage of hemp, it shows how hemp is grown and processed into rope and other products. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Call of the Yukon (info)
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- You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Voice Of Safety Speaking (info)
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- Lyndon Lorenz - PLEASE LADY! Possibly NSFW due to strenuously harsh and barking public address. STOP! The snarling bed track is a totally dangerous off-balance groove crunching out of a Roland Juno-6, with the chords for the chorus, and sound effects for the bridge, laid in over that. WAIT! Special thanks to The Prelinger Archive at www.archive.org for the numerous sources of stock footage. THIS IS THE VOICE OF SAFETY SPEAKING! - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Brideless Groom (info)
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- Hugh McCollum, Jules White - You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- The Battle of Midway (info)
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- John Ford - "The Battle of Midway," directed by John Ford, provides a relatively brief account of the Japanese attack of American ships at Midway atoll. The film is comprised mostly of authentic footage from the battle, with dramatic narration by Henry Fonda. "Behind every cloud, there may be an enemy," he intones as American fighter pilots search the sky. The rest of the film mocks Emporer Tojo of Japan and portrays him as ruthless, bombing hospitals and churches as he tries to conquer the Pacific. - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
- Rock, Rock, Rock (info)
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- Max Rosenberg - Taken from IMDB: A young teenage girl desperately tries to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school rock and roll dance. This early rock and roll feature includes an appearance by disc jockey Alan Freed, and performances by artists including Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
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- Alexander Korda - Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas. Influential Merchant Buldeo is bigoted against 'beasts' including Mowgli; not so Buldeo's pretty daughter, whom Mowgli takes on a jungle tour where they find a treasure, setting the evil of human greed in motion. Nominated for 4 Oscars... - Click here to find more data on IMDb.com
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