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November 25th, 2012: Play it Again, Sam

Film critic Allan (Woody Allen) gets over his divorce and begins dating again with a little help from vision of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacey) and his friends Linda (Diane Keaton) and Dick (Tony Roberts).

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November 28th, 2012: Auntie Mame (1958)

When Patrick Dennis’s (Roger Smith and Jan Handzlik), he is put in the care of his only living relative, his eccentric Aunt Mame (Rosalind Russell). Patrick's father's will stipulates that the executor...

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December 9th, 2012: Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Demobilized British officer Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Coleman) seeks excitement to break the monotony of post war life. Advertizing in the paper that he's looking for adventure, Drummond takes up...

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December 14th, 2012: The Miracle Worker (1962)

Cast and Crew:  Arthur Penn (Director); William Gibson (Screenwriter, Play); Laurence Rosenthal (Music); Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory What It’s About: The biographical story of Anne Sullivan...

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December 25th, 2012: Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) and Stanley Dum (Stan Laurel) engage in various schemes to stop the villainous Barnaby (Henry Brandon) from using his mortgage on Widow Peep's (Florence Roberts) shoe to force...

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January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is about to be married to George Kittredge (John Howard); at least, that is until her ex-husband C. K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and a pair of reporters (James Stewart...

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May 4th, 2013: Frost/Nixon (2008)

Lightweight TV interviewer David Frost (Michael Sheen) engages in a prolonged game of cat and mouse while interviewing (and setting up the interviews) with disgraced former President Richard Nixon...

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August 9th, 2013: 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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September 8th, 2013: A Shot in the Dark (1964)

Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) must investigate a murder at a wealthy and well connected household where everyone is a suspect...

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December 5th, 2013: Amadeus

The story of the rivalry between child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and less gifted but more popular composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham).

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December 23rd, 2013: Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)

Shep Henderson's (Jimmy Stewart) landlady Gil Holroyd (Kim Novak) is a witch who just happens to have a yen for him against her aunt Queenie (Elsa Lanchester) and brother Nicky's (Jack Lemmon)...

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April 16th, 2014: Desk Set

Bunny Watson (Katherine Hepburn) runs the research department of a major broadcasting network. Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) is an efficiency expert and computer designer who starts spending time in...

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April 23rd, 2014: Romeo and Juliet (1968)

In Renaissance Verona, the Montagues feud with the Capulets. Romeo Montague (Leonard Whiting) goes to a Capulet party to cause trouble, but instead finds it when he meets Juliet (Olivia Hussey) by...

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May 22nd, 2014: Sleuth (1972)

Detective novelist Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) invites his wife's lover, hairdresser Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) to his mansion. Wyke loves games and puzzles, and beings to play one with Milo…but is...

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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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July 14th, 2014: The Seventh Seal

A knight (Max von Sydow) returns to Sweden from the Crusades during a plague and plays chess against Death (Bengt Ekerot) to gain more time, traveling while he does so and observing life.

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September 8th, 2014: Forbidden Planet (1956)

A spaceship commanded by J. J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) is sent to Altair IV to check on a lost farm colony ship. The sole survivor of the original expedition-linguist Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter...

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