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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Dan Hanlon
Released by Universal in 1916, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was the first great special effects spectacular of early cinema. Based on the Jules Verne novel, the story concerns a team of scientists...
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4D Man
4D Man
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

He walks through walls of solid steel and stone--into the 4th dimension. Scientific whiz Tony Nelson (James Congdon) has made an amazing discovery. He has developed a method of stimulating the...

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8 1/2
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into...
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Edwin L. Marin

In this one-of-a-kind feature, Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is charged with investigating the slayings of members of an organization known as "The Scarlet Ring". When...

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Abilene Town
Abilene Town
Edwin L. Marin

In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and...

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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
D.W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln'
D.W. Griffith

Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Thomas Mitchell

This classic tale from author Mark Twain was brought to the small screen for the first time in the 1950's and features Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine. This classic novel features the tales of...

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The Adventures of Long John Silver
The Adventures of Long John Silver
14 Episodes
Lee Sholem

This 1950's television program features the continued tales of Robert Louis Stevenson's' literary creation, one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Robert Newton stars as the pirate who will do the...

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The Adventures of Tartu
The Adventures of Tartu
Sabotage Agent
Harold S. Bucquet

A British soldier that is fluent in both Rumanian and German is recruited for an undercover assignment inside Nazi-controlled Czechoslovakia. His assignment is to infiltrate a German-run chemical...

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Aelita, The Queen of Mars
Aelita, The Queen of Mars
Nikola Tsereteli
Russia's first big budget science fiction spectacular. Aelita, the Queen of Mars is a fantastic adventure about Los, an engineer living in Moscow who dreams of Aelita and builds a spaceship to take him...
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