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Oh, they have trouble, right there in River City, Iowa, where a smooth-talking con man convinces the locals to fork up the dough to pay for musical instruments so they can form a marching band and keep the youngsters of the town out of mischief. He must also convince a local librarian, who may have realized that he has no idea how to play or teach music. Robert Preston reprises the title role, for

Rodgers and Hammerstein's ill-fated musical romance set in 19th-century Maine follows a onetime carousel barker in Heaven, where he's informed of a loophole that permits him to return to Earth for a day, during which he recalls a courtship with a local lass.

A linguist bets a colleague that he can train a cockney to speak and act like a refined lady within six months, and proceeds to fall in love with the fiery young woman.

A preacher's daughter struggles during the Civil War as she tries to keep the family farm afloat and awaits the return of her soldier beau.

CIA analyst Jack Ryan uncovers a dark plot to crash the US economy with a terrorist attack. Ryan must fight the terrorist head on if he has any chance of saving the country.

Holmes and Watson vs. a deadly female heading a murder ring.

First-rate thriller about fruit truckers and racketeers. Richard Conte. Rica: Valentina Cortesa. Figlia: Lee J. Cobb. Polly: Barbara Lawrence. Ed: Millard Mitchell. Slob: Jack Oakie. Pete: Joseph Pevney. Excellent direction by Jules Dassin. Suspenseful and absorbing.

A gambler robs the gangsters who murdered his business partner and is pursued by the mob. He hides in a settlement house and is soon reformed by the woman who works there.

Immigration agents go undercover to take down a gang that smuggles Mexican farmers across the border and kills them before they can return home. The agents soon find themselves targeted by the smuggler's ruthless leader.

Film-noir mystery about a Boston police detective who teams with a Harvard forensic specialist to investigate a murder when the skeletal remains of a pregnant call girl are found on a Cape Cod beach.

A lawyer for the mob decides to go straight after one last job. When the job goes south, the lawyer is required to testify against his former bosses. He agrees, but only if his dream girl gets police protection.

A group of escaped convicts take people hostage in a ghost town that was vacated because it was the location of a nuclear bomb test.

Maniac holds a group of people at bay in a bar. Wycoff: Marshall Thompson. Freddy: Virginia Field. Helen: Andrea King. Faron: Sam Levene. Earl: Leon Ames. Skip: Keefe Brasselle. Directed by Gerald Mayer.

A sailor on leave is mistakenly charged with murder and has until dawn to prove that he didn't do it. He receives unexpected help from a world-weary dance-hall girl.

A troubled New York City detective gets a chance to redeem himself when he's assigned to go undercover to investigate and clean up corruption and crime on the waterfront.

Tale of a truck driver (George Raft) who sets out to find the murderer of his priest-brother. Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr. Strecker: Barton MacLane. Hazard: Gene Lockhart. Torno: Arthur Franz. Rocky: Henry Morgan. Ryan: Bill Phillips. Pablo: Philip Pine. Trina: Movita Castenada. Part crime thriller, part religious sermon. Maudlin but fairly interesting. Roy Del Ruth directed.

Police try to nab killers who may carry the bubonic plague.

The sole survivor of a crash contacts the victims' next of kin. Gary Merrill, Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie, Bette Davis, Keenan Wynn, Craig Stevens, Evelyn Varden, Helen Westcott. Marty: Warren Stevens. Mrs. Fortness: Beatrice Straight. Jean Negulesco directed.

Thelma Ritter is matchmaker to Jeanne Crain and Scott Brady. Witty script; directed by George Cukor. Zero Mostel, Michael O'Shea.

An efficiency expert tries out his experiments in time and motion on his family of 12 children. Based on real-life incidents.

Jimmy Stewart as a family man whose vacation doesn't go as planned. Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner, Lauri Peters, John McGiver. Mildly amusing. Henry Koster directed.

A job transfer takes an executive and his wife to London, where he wants to live close to work, but she rents a country cottage, making for long commutes for him and boredom for her...until she meets an amorous antiques dealer.

Frank Sinatra (who produced) and his Rat Pack (in their final movie collaboration) star in this spoof of gangster films that's set in Roaring '20s Chicago and is a mixture of the Robin Hood fable and "Guys and Dolls." Eight songs by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen highlight the film, including the Oscar-nominated "My Kind of Town" (sung by Sinatra).

The tuneful Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart-John O'Hara stage hit about a nightclub singer. Songs include "The Lady Is a Tramp," "My Funny Valentine," "There's a Small Hotel," "Bewitched.".

Elvis Presley needs a strong heart and nerves of steel to have a swinging time in the Nevada gambling mecca, where he enters his race car in a Grand Prix event, and goes wheel-to-wheel with his archrival as they compete on the track and for the love of a comely singer.

Three models of modest means rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth in an attempt to snare rich husbands for themselves.

Musical version of "State Fair" about a family's visit to the Iowa fair.

A former movie star's new career as a respected college professor is jeopardized when his old films start being shown on TV. With his daughter, he sets out to stop this, but must contend with his old co-star and her plans. Based on the story "Love Man" by John D. Weaver.

Mrs. Santa Claus gets stranded in a multi-cultural neighborhood in 1910 New York City, when she takes the sleigh out and tries to find a new route for her husband and his reindeer.

A family allows their son to train a filly named Flicka in this adaptation of Mary O'Hara's novel.

Dagwood takes over the office, upsetting his work and home life. Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale, Marjorie Kent, Angelyn Orr. Jonathan: Robert Stanton. Butler: Paul Harvey. Amusing. Directed by Abby Berlin.

A Brazilian woman is wooed by an American bandleader, even though she is engaged to marry his best friend.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this Best Picture nominee about an estranged wife who mistakes a potential suitor for a gigolo hired to help end her troubled marriage. Featuring "The Continental," the first Oscar-winning Best Song.

Gossip threatens to halt the budding romance between a ballerina and a tap dancer who find themselves in the midst of some very much unwanted publicity. The seventh screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers features a score by George and Ira Gershwin.

A famous dancer whose career is on the decline stages a comeback with a musical adaptation of Faust, but fears the flamboyant director and his classical ballerina co-star will upstage him.

Fred Astaire as a stage star, and Ginger Rogers as his beautiful neighbor, dance---and romance---from London to Venice in this tip-top musical full of classic Irving Berlin tunes. Astaire and Rogers' fourth of 10 screen pairings was nominated for Best Picture.

A musical love triangle in which a psychiatrist and his friend's girlfriend fall in love. He uses hypnosis to sway her affection back to his friend, but now the psychiatrist must win back her love before the wedding.

Captivating entertainment from Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in this story of a millionaire who anonymously sends a French girl through school, while falling for her. Great dancing; Johnny Mercer score includes "Dream" and "Something's Got to Give." Directed by Jean Negulesco.

A delightfully strange veterinarian living in Victorian England wows visitors with stories of his wild adventures, wherein he learned to speak 497 animal languages -- and collected many animal roommates, from chickens to a chimpanzee. Features the Oscar-winning Best Song "Talk to the Animals." Remade in 1998 with Eddie Murphy.

A Roman tribune assigned by Pontius Pilate to supervise the crucifixion of Christ wins Christ's garments in a dice game, resulting in a profound change in the formerly self-indulgent soldier.

Tips and tricks to help the environment.

Tips and tricks to help the environment.

Techniques for entering the motion picture and television are provided for kids.

Techniques for entering the motion picture and television are provided for kids.

A collection of short films.

Moppet Shirley Temple scored a big hit singing "The Good Ship Lollipop" and playing an orphan who worships a daredevil pilot, while living with a snooty couple, for whom her late mother once worked, and their bratty daughter.

In this adaptation of the Johanna Spyri kid-lit classic, Shirley Temple stars as the title character, an orphaned Swiss miss who softens a hardhearted recluse of the Alps only to be kidnapped and sold into servitude.

Kipling's story about a child helping the British Army quell an uprising in India.

This tale of a talented little girl (Shirley Temple) who wins a radio contest bears no connection to the Kate Douglas Wiggin classic. Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley, Slim Summerville, Bill Robinson, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Dinehart, Dixie Dunbar, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Eily Malyon, Mary McCarty, Paul Hurst. For Temple fanciers. Allan Dwan di

Film-noir mystery about a Boston police detective who teams with a Harvard forensic specialist to investigate a murder when the skeletal remains of a pregnant call girl are found on a Cape Cod beach.

A group of escaped convicts take people hostage in a ghost town that was vacated because it was the location of a nuclear bomb test.

Immigration agents go undercover to take down a gang that smuggles Mexican farmers across the border and kills them before they can return home. The agents soon find themselves targeted by the smuggler's ruthless leader.

Police try to nab killers who may carry the bubonic plague.

Tale about a substitute seer (Paulette Goddard) who gives an attorney (Ray Milland) bad advice on property speculation. Jo: Virginia Field. Mme. Zenobia: Gladys George. Biff: William Bendix. Pop: Cecil Kellaway. Mrs. Martin: Iris Adrian. Martin: Ernest Truex. Directed by Elliott Nugent.

Fractured Flickers is a live-action syndicated half-hour television comedy show that was produced by Jay Ward, who is otherwise known for animated cartoons. The pilot film was produced in 1961, but the series wasn't completed until 1963. Twenty-six episodes were produced; they were syndicated by Desilu Productions and played for several years on local stations.

Sisters Ruth and Eileen move to Greenwich Village seeking fame and fortune, and Ruth grabs the attention of a skirt-chasing publisher when she submits a story about her beautiful sister. She keeps his attention by assuming Eileen's identity. Based on the play by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov.

Four sisters at the turn of the 20th century learn vital lessons about life and love as their family prepares for a move to New York City.

A series of five short segments enact favorite stories from author O. Henry, most notably The Cop and the Anthem.

After a justice of the peace realizes his license has expired, he has to track down the couples he has supposedly married to advise them otherwise.

Three models of modest means rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth in an attempt to snare rich husbands for themselves.

Two showgirls go on a cruise to Paris hoping to marry wealthy men. When one of them falls for a poor private eye, the other attempts to end that relationship by finding a richer man for her friend.

A vaudeville family of five are at the top of their game until one son makes a decision to leave the group and another's heart gets broken.