John Cromwell
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Adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel, this saga of unrequited love follows club-footed English art student Philip Carey on his quest to win the love of slatternly waitress Mildred Rogers, a vulgar beauty who holds Philip's deformity in contempt. Giving up art for medicine and vowing to shake his unhealthy obsession with Mildred, Philip romances a supportive writer but when pregnant and abandoned Mildred appears, Philip's self-destructive feelings...
3) Memorial Day
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Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a
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SHE WAS OUT TO GET THE GENERAL...But in the mix-up wound-up getting got herself! The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. She's determined to discredit him prior to the appointment and invites him to spend the weekend at her country home where she's arranged many traps. Starring Kurt Douglas and Susan Hayward.
5) In Winter
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Abandoned by her parents and left to deal with her aging and senile grandfather, Annika faces poverty, isolation, and sexual oppression. When Mark, a wealthy, married stranger on his way to a sailing competition, visits her bleak lakeside town during the dead of winter, a quiet but intense entanglement develops. Opened and transformed as a result of the affair, Annika faces possibilities normally unavailable to a person of her class, but Mark gradually...