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14,100 | [
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14,101 | [
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14,102 | [
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14,103 | [
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14,104 | [
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14,105 | [
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14,106 | [
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14,107 | [
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14,108 | [
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14,109 | [
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14,110 | [
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14,111 | [
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14,112 | [
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14,113 | [
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14,114 | [
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14,115 | [
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14,116 | [
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14,117 | [
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14,118 | [
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14,119 | [
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14,120 | [
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14,121 | [
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14,122 | [
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14,123 | [
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14,124 | [
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14,125 | [
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14,126 | [
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14,127 | [
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14,128 | [
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14,129 | [
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14,130 | [
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14,131 | [
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14,132 | [
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14,133 | [
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14,134 | [
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14,135 | [
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14,136 | [
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14,137 | [
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] | 130 | 150 | Judith Ivey as the scamming old whore is awesome. Emily Grace the young girl. Is innocent and exciting as she learns whats going down. Excellent direction and camera. Story is dark and disturbing.Supporting cast is good. Shows what happens and can happen with a run of bad luck. Great independent film. Small cast. Pace ... | 1 |
14,138 | [
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] | 259 | 320 | at the story. It is reality mixed with Americana- and very original.<br /><br />Emily Grace is a young girl tired of her boring life working at a minimum wage job, in New England. Her sleazy boss propositions her- she quits and takes a little bit of cash from the register. Driving from New Hampshire to Miami, Florida, ... | 1 |
14,139 | [
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14,140 | [
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14,141 | [
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14,142 | [
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] | 131 | 170 | "What Alice Found" is the greatest movie that nobody's ever heard of! I underestimated it when I heard of it, and I though that it would all sex, no plot, and just really stupid, but in reality, it was really good. They say all indie movies suck, but this one, and "Napoleon Dynamite" didn't suck. I asked my friend, who... | 1 |
14,143 | [
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14,144 | [
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14,145 | [
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14,146 | [
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14,147 | [
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14,148 | [
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14,149 | [
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14,150 | [
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14,151 | [
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14,152 | [
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14,153 | [
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14,154 | [
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14,155 | [
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14,156 | [
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14,157 | [
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14,158 | [
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14,159 | [
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14,160 | [
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14,161 | [
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14,162 | [
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14,163 | [
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14,164 | [
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14,165 | [
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14,166 | [
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14,167 | [
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14,168 | [
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14,169 | [
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14,170 | [
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14,171 | [
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14,172 | [
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14,173 | [
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14,174 | [
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14,176 | [
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14,177 | [
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14,178 | [
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14,179 | [
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14,180 | [
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14,181 | [
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] | 154 | 195 | This movie was much better than I expected. ++++ Jean Peters actually does a passable job as a pirate and does decent work in her sword fights. (To the extent she may have a double doing the action, it's hard to tell...but Peters herself obviously is doing a good deal of it, and doing it well.) ++++ With a good and ser... | 1 |
14,182 | [
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] | 282 | 399 | This is one of several period sea-faring yarns of its era, which has the added distinction (although not in itself unique) of a female buccaneer at its center. At first, both leads – Jean Peters and Louis Jourdan – might seem miscast but they grow nicely into their roles eventually, thanks no doubt to the talented play... | 1 |
14,183 | [
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] | 208 | 262 | Sometimes it's hard to be a pirate...............but by golly Miss Jean Peters has a lot of fun trying - and it shows,particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with Blackbeard (Mr Thomas Gomez - eminently hissable)when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face. With fifty years of hindsight Femini... | 1 |
14,184 | [
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] | 174 | 228 | I saw this movie when I was very young living in Houston, Texas. I really enjoyed this movie, and I wrote to Jean Peters in Hollywood, and I told her how much I enjoyed seeing her in this movie. She sent me an autographed photo. This movie was directed by Jacques Tourneur, and besides Jean Peters in the starring role. ... | 1 |
14,185 | [
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] | 97 | 157 | The cast for this production of Rigoletto is excellent. Edita Gruberova sings Gilda magnificently and passionately. Luciano Pavarotti also sings splendidly. Vergara is a fine Maddalena; Fedora Barbieri is a famous older singer who sings the maid, Giovanna. Weikl sings Marullo; Wixell sings both Rigoletto and Monterone.... | 1 |
14,186 | [
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] | 51 | 70 | Pavarotti and the entire cast are superb in this beautifully filmed opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the world's finest composer of operas. The coloratura soprano is particularly spectacular with her perfect pitch. The title role is well-enacted and well-sung. The entire production is as perfect as one could expect.<br /><br /... | 1 |
14,187 | [
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] | 405 | 536 | I like the good things in life as much as anybody, I suppose, but until about five years ago, opera didn't figure into my entertainment choices. Oh, I made a few attempts to learn what all the fuss was about; I'd watched several television productions -- notably parts of Wagner's Ring Cycle on public television -- hopi... | 1 |
14,188 | [
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] | 168 | 211 | This is the sort of unknown and forgotten film one dreams about discovering in watching old videos. It is a superb comic gem with brilliantly funny writing, embedded in the marvellous array of characters, a wonderfully inventive and funny musical score, and witty, light direction from Montgomery himself. This is one to... | 1 |
14,189 | [
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] | 115 | 170 | I was surprised, "Once More, My Darling", had not generated enough votes (at this writing) for a "user rating". It's a "screwy" comedy I have enjoyed many times over the years. Robert Montgomery's mission places him in some very improbable situations, and he's just the man for the job. He maintains his trademark "befud... | 1 |
14,190 | [
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] | 224 | 297 | In this approximately 34-second Thomas Edison-produced short, we see Annabelle Moore performing the Loie Fuller-choreographed "Serpentine Dance" in two different fantastical, flowing robes.<br /><br />Moore was one of the bigger stars of the late Victorian era. She was featured in a number of Edison Company shorts, inc... | 1 |
14,191 | [
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] | 163 | 208 | Like all of the very earliest films, this "movie" is very, very short--lasting about one minute! So, because of its brevity, it's not really possible to compare it to more modern films. But, for its time, it's actually a very remarkable film. Much of this is because the prints were hand painted--making Annabelle appear... | 1 |
14,192 | [
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] | 127 | 146 | Could this be one of the earliest colour films? It's actually the second. This is a very beautiful piece of film produced by Thomas Edison. This was one of many of his other films.<br /><br />I think this is the most beautiful of any Thomas Edison films. It shows a girl dancing and moving her dress all around, which tu... | 1 |
14,193 | [
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] | 82 | 109 | A pity, nobody seems to know this little thriller-masterpiece. Where bigger budgeted movies fail, "Terminal Choice" delivers lots of thrills, shocks and bloody violence. A little seen gem, that deserves being searched for in your local video shop. That anonymous guy beneath is quite right, when he says, you'll never tr... | 1 |
14,194 | [
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] | 186 | 247 | "Hoppity Goes to Town" was the second and last full length animated feature made by Max and Dave Fleischer, who created a parallel universe to Disney. While Disney's films are well remembered today, both of the Fleischer films "Gulliver's Travels" and this one are forgotten.<br /><br />"Hoppity" is a spellbinding origi... | 1 |
14,195 | [
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] | 240 | 308 | Leslie Carbaga's excellent book on the Fleishers tells the whole story of the Fleischer's big move of their entire animation unit to Florida, and their subsequent ejection by Paramount. <br /><br />Mr. Bug Goes to Town didn't destroy the animation pioneers' credit with Paramount, although it's often told that way, and ... | 1 |
14,196 | [
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] | 428 | 541 | I first watched this in black and white, circa Christmas in the early Sixties, when it was shown on British television. I was absolutely hooked, and watched it over again whenever it was repeated on TV (possibly two or three times only, as it happens - if only we'd had video recorders then!).<br /><br />As outlined by ... | 1 |
14,197 | [
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] | 410 | 494 | Mr. Bug Goes to Town was one of those films that I grew up hearing about, however a copy could never be obtained until now. I just watched this film on DVD and thought it was a delightful and charming film, with wonderful animation, a good plot and great songs. If this film was made by Disney then the film would be con... | 1 |
14,198 | [
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] | 201 | 248 | I have for years remembered a song "JUST A COUPLE IN A CASTLE" ("No. twenty moonbeam square, just a couple in castle in the air"). I couldn't find the song, but I remembered that it it had to do with cartoon bugs. I located a reference to the movie on the web. I had seen the movie when I was only 9 year old at the Ligo... | 1 |
14,199 | [
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] | 101 | 123 | Hello again, I have been thinking about this movie all my life. I saw it when I was 5 years old in Los Angeles, California in 1942. What a wonderful story of being good to one another, kindness, and charity. You forget it is the bugs relating to one another. It was just as if they were people. I love this movie and so ... | 1 |
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