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Raise the Titanic

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A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest? A rare mineral on-board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering United States airspace!

It Happened Tomorrow

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"Engaging Fantasy, Flawlessly Made" - Halliwell's film guide.What would happen if someone could get tomorrow's newspaper headlines today? This charming period comedy tells the story of a newspaper reporter (Dick Powell) who wishes he could scoop his colleagues by knowing about events before they occur. Then when a mysterious old man gives him the news a day in advance, his life is turned upside down. Racing to prevent a headline predicting his own death, he gets mixed up with a beautiful fortune teller (Linda Darnell) and her overprotective uncle (Jack Oakie). IT HAPPENED TOMORROW was acclaimed French director René Clair's (BEAUTY OF THE DEVIL) follow up to his equally enchanting I MARRIED A WITCH, both made during a World War II exile in Hollywood. Clair's famous whimsical style is evident in this cautionary tale; be careful - what you wish for might come true.

House on Haunted Hill (In Color & Restored)

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William Castle’s gimmick-laden horror thriller is a fairground fun house come to life. Vincent Price stars as a suave eccentric millionaire married to a beautiful and greedy gold digger. Together they are hosting a party in a sinister haunted house. Five guests are invited to spend the night and each will get $10,000—but only if they survive until morning. The doors are locked at midnight. Will they make it out alive? This horror classic is presented here in color and beautifully restored!

Dancing With Crime

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New restoration of this classic Brit Noir. In DANCING WITH CRIME (1947), Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, married in real life at the time, put themselves in harms way when they go undercover to investigate the murder of a friend with ties to black market racketeers. Watch for Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors in uncredited roles.

War of the Wildcats

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A confident oil baron and a determined cowboy are rivals for Oklahoma land and oil rights, and for the love of a pretty schoolteacher. The cowboy acts on behalf of the Indians, on whose land the oil is discovered. Based on the story "War of the Wildcats."

Bang the Drum Slowly

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Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball players. Moriarty plays the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; De Niro is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks all of Moriarty's sophistication. He is also dying. During their last season together on a team fraught with bickering and infighting, the two men grow into manhood and respect for themselves and each other. Bang the Drum Slowly is moving without being sentimental and is filled with tenderness, humor, honesty and brilliant acting.

Condemned (1929)

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A suave, self-centered thief learns to give instead of steal. A fear-fraught shut-in finds the courage to brave fate. A cold-blooded killer finds something worth dying for. An all-powerful prison warden discovers how small and weak he is. These four souls are condemned to be forever transformed within the crucible of Devil’s Island. Michel (Ronald Colman), sent to Devil’s Island for bank robbery, catches the attention of the warden (Dudley Digges) thanks to his Parisian sophistication. Eager for a houseboy appropriate to his status, the warden gives Michel the assignment. While Michel’s bunkmate, the killer Jacques, gets hard labor, Michel seeks to serve his time softly as a servant. Thanks to the warden’s wife (Ann Harding), Michel’s labors soon prove as hard as Jacques. Ronald Colman’s performance as Michel, along with his role in Bulldog Drummond the same year, solidly secured his transition from silent star to talkie A-lister.

Yokel Boy

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The head of a film studio hires a farmer, who holds the world's record for attending movies, as a publicity stunt to bolster his sagging business. The farmer is to be an "idea man" and is assigned the task of picking a cast for a film based on the life of Bugsy Malone. But when the farmer casts the real Bugsy in the title role, things go a little haywire.

Who's Got The Action

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Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the family, Lana talks Dino's law partner Eddie Albert into acting as Martin's bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also rouses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Walter Matthau. In the cutest of the film's cute twist, Lana saves herself and her husband by solving Matthau's financial and domestic problems. A minor but efficiently assembled star comedy, Who's Got the Action benefits from tasty production values and a knockout supporting cast, including Paul Ford, John McGiver, Nita Talbot, Ned Glass, and fabled pin-up girl June Wilkinson.

The Draughtsman’s Contract

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Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s sumptuous and sensuously charged brainteaser catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery around the maxim “draw what you see, not what you know.” An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder. Bolstered by a majestic score by then-newcomer Michael Nyman and stunning cinematography by Curtis Clark that suggests Greenaway has the elements at his beck and call, 'The Draughtsman’s Contract' is a luscious cinematic banquet for eye, ear and mind.

Two of Hearts

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A depressed veterinarian meets a sentimental sportscaster at the wedding of their former spouses.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian.

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

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Absolute power corrupts in 'Caligula: The Ultimate Cut', an extensive reconstruction of the notorious 1980 spectacle. Shadowed by the murder of his family, Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the Roman Empire alongside his wife Caesonia (Helen Mirren) before descending into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness.

Boeing-Boeing

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Adapted from the stage to the screen, Boeing Boeing follows the lives of American journalist Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) and his friend Robert Reed (Jerry Lewis) in Paris. Bernard is juggling romances with three different women who are stewardesses and have opposite schedules; a perfect situation for any bachelor. However, when Robert comes in for a visit and the airline carriers increase flight services to Paris the comedy ensues!

Oasis

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Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from severe cerebral palsy, Gong-ju is kept cloistered in a cheap apartment by her brother, whose only concern is the government assistance she receives. Over a series of clandestine meetings, the two begin an improbable relationship that defies the judgment and cruelty of the world around them. Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director and Best Young Actress at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong's "Oasis" is a “brave film” that “shows two people who find any relationship almost impossible, and yet find a way to make theirs work” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

Too Late Blues

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A jazz musician falls in love with a timid vocalist who joins his group and unintentionally turns his life upside down.

The Damned

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In 1945 at the close of the war, a submarine leaves Oslo for South America with German leaders and several pro-Nazi officials aboard hoping to escape their fate in Europe. A young French doctor is forced to join them to tend a wounded passenger. The stage is set for scheming, intrigue and mutiny. A claustrophobic and gritty post-war rediscovered gem from director Clément.

Puddin' Head

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On the day that United Broadcasting System's new $3,000,000 building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that because he gave the wrong survey to the builders, the new structure runs one foot onto land that is not theirs. Montgomery tries to buy the farm property next to their skyscraper - on Fifth Avenue, in the heart of NYC - which is owned by Judy Goober and her uncle Lem, a country bumpkin who refuses to sell.

Rosie The Riveter

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Airplane factory workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren, Vera Watson, Charlie Doran and Kelly Kennedy meet one day when they all answer a room-to-let ad in the home of an eccentric family headed by Grandma Quill. Desperate for lodgings, the foursome agree to share the room, as the men work the night shift and the women work during the day. But opposites still manage to attract. Based on the story "Room for Two."

The Green Cockatoo

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Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a new restoration of this classic Brit Noir. A true rarity, William Cameron Menzies’ THE GREEN COCKATOO was completed in 1937, but not released until 1940. It is often cited as one of the earliest of the British Noirs and helped set the stage for the classical period of Brit Noir which flourished in the years following WWII. It’s a taut little thriller based on a Graham Greene story, directed by the American William Cameron Menzies, and featuring a stellar cast and crew. After witnessing the murder of a racketeer, a young woman is pursued by both gangsters and the police. She is aided by a Soho entertainer, who is the brother of the victim.

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