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Texas 1935. It's a time of boomtowns or bust for oil wildcatters and, time and again, derby-topped Mr. Cox has come out flat busted. No worries. Mr. Cox has a mule-headed optimism. He's sure as the sunrise that near the town of Henrietta on a cotton farm that raises more dust than bolls, there's black gold beneath the barren sod.
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It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter Jane the right entry into society and a proper upper-class beau. One complication: flighty Mabel Claremont is eager to match that same beau with her daughter. And another: Jane, of course, has her own ideas about these matters, and an eye for a guy who's a drummer in the dance band.
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'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
9) Rendezvous
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Intrigue, plot twists and romantic jealousy drive this riveting World War I espionage thriller. A decoding expert is assigned to office work instead of the combat role he longed to play. But there is no shortage of action as he becomes involved with a socialite whose uncle, the Assistant Secretary of War, sends him into a world of German spies, a Russian mistress and betrayal at almost every turn. As he helps to orchestrate and decipher some of the...
10) Cry havoc
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The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant. Make do: supplies will not arrive. Stay strong, despite the overwhelming odds.
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The story of Sergeant Rutledge, a 9th Cavalry officer on trial for rape and murder. Lt. Cantrell defends Rutledge as witnesses give testimony (relived in flashbacks) revealing the sergeant's gallantry, and the shocking truth behind the alleged crimes. Ford, who attacked racism in The Searchers, explores similar territory in this landmark Western, the power of which still rings out with uncommon force decades later.
13) Never let me go
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An exciting drama about a passionate love affair set in postwar Russia. Philip Sutherland, a foreign correspondent based in Russia, falls in love with a ballerina, Maria Lamarkina. They marry to return to the United States together but Cold War politics intervene and she is detained in Russia by the KGB while Philip is escorted home. Political intrigue, fabulous ballet sequences and a timeless love story make this thrilling drama a classic.