Kim Hunter
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English
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Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own.
"Probably the best-realized translation of Tennessee Williams we've seen on screen...a gold standard."--Columbus City Scene
"Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, 'Streetcar' is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies."--Chicago...
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British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
7) Storm center
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English
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A librarian refuses to remove a book called The communist dream from the public library when the city council tells her to do so.
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English
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
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Four American astronauts crash-land on an uncharted planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall)
11) The swimmer
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English
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Ned Merrill is a man who confronts his destiny by swimming home, pool by pool, through the suburban nightmare of upper-class East Coast society.