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On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of marriage and hard-earned fortune. Following several long years in prison he has managed to escape and reinvent himself as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo. It is the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Count has been plotting his revenge on the three men who had him falsely imprisoned....
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Europa Editions
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2023.
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September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
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2016.
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"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
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Image Entertainment
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1999.
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English
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Two tars: Classic retribution comedy set in a rural Model-T traffic jam. (MGM, 1928, 22 min.).
The second hundred years: The Boys are determined to escape from prison. (MGM, 1927, 23 min.).
Slipping wives: Early short finds Stan playing a masher; Hardy the protective butler. (Pathe', 1927, 23 min.).
From soup to nuts: Early triumph finds the Boys as servants. (MGM, 1928, 18 min.).
Scorching sands: Early Laurel solo finds Stan spoofing desert adventure...
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Kino on Video
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c1999.
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English
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928): Set on the Mississippi River in the old sidewheeler days, this film follows the adventures of a spoiled young man who is forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of riverboating. Highlighted by special effects, it includes the legendary stunt in which the front of a building collapses over Junior, who passes unharmed through an open window.
Convict 13 (1920): Combines gallows humor with rapid-fire slapstick as Buster...
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2020.
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May, 1945. After German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to...
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Paramount
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2006.
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English
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Follows the adventures of Texas ranchers taking three thousand cattle to market.
Incident of the tumbleweed wagon (1/9/59): Trail Boss Gil Favor and chief assistant Rowdy Yates share camp with lawmen who are taking prisoners to their trials. When a break for freedom fails, Gil and Rowdy are saddled with the task of bringing the outlaws to justice.
Incident at Alabaster Plain (1/16/59): A water stop at a mission promises a delightful break for Gil,...
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"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
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English
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Nonstop laughs are in the house with Season Four of In Living Color on DVD! No celebrity was too sacred and no current event was too controversial for this Emmy-winning hit show that pushed the boundaries of sketch comedy with hilarious results.
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Penguin Books
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2012.
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English
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Overview: Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Think of these poems as...
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