Walter Huston
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Abraham Lincoln is one of the earliest film biographies of America's sixteenth president. Lincoln (Walter Huston) is shown from his early days to his assassination at age fifty-six. Featuring a superb ensemble that also includes Jason Robards Sr., Una Merkel, and Kay Hammond, the Lincoln saga was directed by groundbreaking filmmaker D.W. Griffith (The Birth of a Nation) and will leave you enthralled!
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John Huston's stirring documentary about returning war veterans was suppressed by the United States government for over thirty years after it was produced. Every man has his breaking point, says narrator Walter Huston. These in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limits of human endurance. Filmed at two Long Island locations (Edgewood State Hospital and Pilgrim State Hospital), this account of ex-soldiers struggling...
4) Rain
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A boat arrives carrying two couples, the Davidsons (who are missionaries), the MacPhails and a prostitute named Sadie Thompson gets stranded on the island due to a possible Cholera outbreak on-board. Sadie spends her time "partying" with the American soldiers stationed on the island. The Preacher, Alfred Davidson soon becomes unhinged and thus begins a series of surprising events which culminate in disaster.
10) El Forajido
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Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.
11) The great sinner
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Drawn to an alluring beauty he meets aboard a train, a Russian writer follows her into an elegant casino. There he is intrigued by the obsessive life she and her father share, risking their fortunes and their futures on the spin of a roulette wheel. At first the writer is a mere observer, but soon he is drawn inexorably into a madness that threatens to destroy him.
12) The furies
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In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
13) Abraham Lincoln
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D.W. Griffith's first talking movie. Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination.