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1) Eraserhead
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An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary...
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Jack Logan is the heir to half of a map to a hidden Indian mine. The trader and villain Jean Gregg sends his chief henchman Mack to make life difficult for Jack. Jack is aided in his quest by the heirs to the other half of the map: Helen Holt and her younger brother Billy, and by a uniformed mystery man known as "The Mystery Trooper."
6) In the Park
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Charlie Chaplin's fourth film, released in 1915 by Essanay Films. It was one of several films he created in a park setting and follows the shenanigans of the tramp as he's causing havoc in the park.
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After the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion's defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin.
8) Jubal
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In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, is befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to rankle his shifty fellow cowhand.
9) The Warriors
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A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they are after the Warriors - a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death.
10) Sleeping Beauty
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A grand legend that transcends time as the evil and jealous fairy Maleficent casts a curse on the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora. Hoping to save the princess, three Good Fairies, Merryweather, Flora and Fauna, spirit her off to the forest where they raise her as their own daughter. But it isn't enough, for, on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and falls into a deep, enchanted sleep just as Maleficent...
11) Flying high
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"The goofy inventor of an 'aerocopter' flying machine, who is compelled to prove the efficiency of his invention in a slapstick cross-country airmail delivery race."--Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
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Criterion collection volume 1194
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Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
13) Moby Dick
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Herman Melville's classic story written in graphic novel format about Captain Ahab and his determination to find and kill the great white whale that becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.
