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May 30th 2014: Notorious (1946)
Intelligence operative Devlin (Cary Grant) grooms Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the disgraced daughter of a German American convicted of treason, as a spy on Nazis operating out of Rio De Janeiro.
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June 5th, 2014: The Longest Day (1962)
The actions of the men and women-American, English, French, German-who fought in Normandy on D-Day are covered in this modern epic.
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June 14th, 2014: Casablanca
Everyone from Nazi officers to the members of the international resistance to criminals comes to Rick’s (Humphrey Bogart). When criminal Ugarte (Peter Lorre) leaves letters of transit in Rick’s hand...
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June 18th, 2014: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Ingenue rock and roll band The Kelly Affair travel to L.A. to try to make it in the music industry, rise to success under the wing of maniac rock producer Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell (John Lazar), then fall...
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July 11th, 2014: OSS117: Lost in Rio
Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (Jean Dujardin), codename OSS117, is a French secret agent who, as we see in the opening sequence, has been fighting the enemies of France since the Second World War. In...
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August 9th, 2014: Attack aka Attack! (1956)
During the closing days of the Second World War, a National Guard infantry company is ordered to move into a town that could be occupied by Nazi forces. Earlier in the day their cowardly, politically...
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August 25th, 2014: Passage to Marseille (1944)
A French freighter rushing nickel ore back to France in the early days of the Second World War picks up five men floating in a raft. The men claim to be French prospectors who want to come back to...
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September 27, 2014: The Sound of Music (1965)
Cast and Crew: Robert Wise (Director), Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Music); Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Angela Cartwright What It’s About: Looking at...
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November 9th, 2014: Top Secret! (1984)
American Rock and Roll star Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival, but soon finds himself drawn into helping the French Resistance stop the East German...
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December 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)
Cast and Crew: Spike Lee (Director); Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor What It’s About: A police detective and hostage negotiator, Keith...
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December 16th, 2014: Castle Keep
While the Battle of the Bulge rages and the German Army approaches, a group of walking wounded recuperating in a 10th century castle must decide if they should join those retreating from the Germans,...
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September 19th: The Baroness and I watched Crooked House, my obligatory Agatha Christie story for this season (I wasn’t able to find the 1974 Ten Little Indians and somehow this ended up on my list...
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