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65 - The Tender Trap - 7.5/10 - Frank Sinatra stars as a 35 year old bachelor theatrical agent named Charlie who lives in Manhattan and is very popular with the ladies. He hangs out with his musician friend Sylvia and his old pal Joe who is visiting from Indiana. Joe falls for Sylvia eve though he has a wife and three kids back home. Charlie meets a young singer/actress named Julie and eventually proposes to her. He also ends up proposing to Sylvia which causes a few problems. Dated, but still fun.
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66 - Captain Marvel - 8/10 - I enjoyed the movie, though I didn't think it was as good as a lot of the other Marvel movies. It was still pretty good.
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67 - Holiday (1938) - 7.5/10 - A remake of the 1930 film. This version stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Grant plays a man who is about to marry into a wealthy family. He wants to take a few years to travel and enjoy life while he is young, but his fiance and her father don't think much of the idea. The bride to be's younger sister, though, is much more amenable to the idea. It was a good film.

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68 - Meet Me in Las Vegas - 7/10 - A rancher who likes to gamble, but is unlucky visits his favorite Las Vegas casino and finds his luck changed when he holds the hand of a ballerina scheduled to perform at the casino. So begins an unlikely romance. Lots of singing and dancing in this musical. It isn't great, but it is entertaining enough.

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69 - A Hard Day's Night - 9/10 - Somehow I'd never seen this Beatles movie. It was pretty funny and entertaining.

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70 - After the Thin Man - 7.5/10 - A nice sequel to The Thin Man. A murder mystery solved by Nick and Norah Charles that involves members of Norah's family..

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71 - Easter Parade - 8/10 - Fred Astaire is a popular dancer who splits up with his long term partner and claims that he can take the next dancer he sees and make her into a star. The next dancer he sees is Hannah (Judy Garland) who lacks experience. It was a fun musical.
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72 - Through a Glass Darkly - 8/10 - Ingmar Bergman directed this film about a young woman who has spending time at her father's cottage along with her father, husband and younger brother after she was released from a mental institution. It turns out that she isn't well and her illness returns and worsens. The film was pretty well done.

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73 - I Vitelloni - 8/10 - Five young men in a seaside town in Italy live an idle life where they spend most of their time partying, flirting with women, walking around and not accomplishing much. Fausto is forced to marry his friend's sister and get a job after getting her pregnant, but still spends a lot of time womanizing. Eventually she has enough and leaves without saying where she is going. This leads to a long search for her throughout the town. It was a good film.
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74 - The Three Musketeers (1948) - 7.5/10 - I thought they did a nice job capturing the spirit of the book. There was plenty of humor, swordplay and action in this fairly faithful adaptation of the classic novel.

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75 - The Band Wagon - 7.5/10 - A movie about the making of a musical that fails initially under the weight of the pretentiousness of the director. Lots of singing and dancing. It was pretty entertaining.

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76 - The Black Swan - 6.5/10 - I was underwhelmed with this film about pirates in and around Jamaica in the 1600s while Henry Morgan is governor there.

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77 - Under Western Stars - 6.5/10 - Roy Rogers plays the son of a congressman from a western state that is suffering from drought and dust. He is elected to congress on the premise that he will get a bill through to help with water issues. It wasn't great, but it was okay.

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78 - The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T - 7/10 - This movie was written by Dr. Seuss and tells the story of a boy who is practicing his piano, even though he doesn't care for his piano teacher. He falls asleep and has a wacky dream involving his mother, the plumber who is at his house and his teacher. Dr. T wants 500 boys to play his masterpiece on a giant piano apparatus. The visuals are pretty good and the acting is decent, but the story is only so-so.

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79 - What Price Hollywood? - 8/10 - A waitress gets an opportunity for a small role in a movie and becomes an overnight star. The director who discovered her suffers from alcoholism which worsens when she marries a polo player who doesn't really like the Hollywood lifestyle. It was a pretty good pre-code drama.
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80 - The Stratton Story - 7.5/10 - The story of Monty Stratton, a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox who had a promising career cut short in the 1930s when a hunting accident caused him to have a leg amputated. He later made a comeback in the minor leagues and played for 8 more seasons using an artificial leg. Jimmy Stewart starred as Stratton and June Allyson played his wife in a decent film.

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81 - Umberto D. - 9/10 - An elderly man is struggling to survive on his small pension in Rome in the early 1950s. His main companions are his small dog and the young maid who works where he lives. He is behind on his rent and is threatened with eviction and he also gets sick. This was really well done.
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82 - The Cowboy and the Lady - 7/10 - A wealthy young woman goes on a blind date with a cowboy. She tells him that she is a lady's maid. They end up falling for each other and eloping. When her father finds out, he disapproves.

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83 - Desperate Journey - 8/10 - An enjoyable movie starring Errol Flynn, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale and others. An Allied bomber is shot down over eastern Germany after destroying an important railroad yard during WWII. The crew is captured and discovers a secret that they want to get back to England. After escaping, they make their way across Germany and the Netherlands with the Germans close behind them. Plenty of action and a bit of humor, too.

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84 - Waterloo Bridge - 8/10 - On the eve of WWII, an army colonel stops at Waterloo Bridge to reminisce about the women he met and fell in love with there during the first World War. Then their story unfolds. The acting and story were very good.

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85 - The Window - 8/10 - A nine year old boy who often gets into trouble with his parents for telling stories to them and to others witnesses a murder by a neighboring couple and isn't believed when he tries to report it in this version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. It was pretty well done throughout.

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86 - Jungle Book (1942) - 8/10 - Rudyard Kipling's tale is a bit different from the Disney version here. This was pretty well done, especially for 1942.

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87 - Broadway Hostess - 6/10 - Wini tries out as a singer and soon becomes a star. Her manager, Lucky, has a gambling problem that later resurfaces. The music is so-so and unfortunately so is the story.
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88 - Calamity Jane - 7.5/10 - Doris Day stars as Calamity Jane in this entertaining 1950s musical.

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89 - The Stranger - 8/10 - Orson Welles stars as a Nazi war criminal who has escaped to the United States after the was and is now established as a professor in Connecticut on the verge of getting married. Edward G. Robinson is a war crimes investigator who follows a lead to Connecticut to try and find the Nazi, though he does not know what he looks like. This was a pretty tense and well acted movie.
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90 - Honeysuckle Rose - 7/10 - A decent film about a country and western singer who has been on the verge of stardom for over 20 years. His wife wants him to stop spending so much time on the road, but he can't help himself. Their relationship is tested when he takes the daughter of his best friend on the road as a substitute guitarist.

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91 - A Woman of Affairs - 7.5/10 - Diana and Neville are in love and want to marry, but Neville's wealthy father is against it and sends Neville away to Egypt for work. Diana ends up marrying her friend, David, but that marriage comes to a bad end. Neville eventually marries Constance, but has never gotten over Diana. This was a good film, but the actions that some of them took didn't seem too realistic or perhaps they are just dated.

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92 - Miss Sadie Thompson - 7/10 - Shortly after WWII, a singer shows up on a Pacific island with a military base. She ends up having to stay for a week due to a quarantine and her presence disrupts things for some of the soldiers and for a self-righteous missionary who tries to get her deported back to the states. It wasn't bad, though it wasn't great either.

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93 - Lady of the Tropics - 7/10 - An American playboy visits Saigon in the 1930s and falls in love with a half caste woman. They get married, but a half caste man who is very rich and influential desires the woman and blocks her from getting a passport so that she can leave with her husband. It was a decent film.
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94 - The Agony and the Ecstasy - 7.5/10 - Charlton Heston stars as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II. This film covers the conflicts between the two from the time Julius commissions Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel through its completion. It was pretty entertaining.

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95 - At Eternity's Gate - 7.5/10 - A rather slow moving look at Vincent van Gogh's final years and his occasional fits of madness. It was okay.
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96 - You'll Find Out - 7.5/10 - A comedy horror film from 1940 about a girl's 21st birthday party with a big band orchestra where they uncover a plot against her for her inheritance. Kay Kyser stars as himself and the movie also has Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre. I thought the movie was pretty funny and entertaining.
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97 - Border - 7.5/10 - Tina is a customs officer with the ability to smell guilt, shame and other things. This makes her very effective at her job. She also does not look quite normal and has some animal like qualities. She starts using her abilities to help out on a child pornography case and also falls for a traveler who has a similar appearance and animal like qualities. It was an interesting film.

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98 - Vice - 7.5/10 - A biographical film with some satire and comedy about Dick Cheney's origins and rise to power.
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99 - Roma - 9/10 - A very stylish film about a maid named Cleo in Mexico City back in 1970/71 and the family that she works for. The husband goes away on a business trip to Quebec and later leaves with his mistress. The mother and Cleo take care of the four kids with the help of the grandmother and another maid. Cleo gets pregnant during this time as well. Some people may be turned off by the pace, but I thought it was an excellent slice of life film.

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100 - Bird Box - 7.5/10 - I thought this was a pretty decent film. Not the phenomenon that many thought it was nor the horrible film others saw. Something has caused mass suicides and murder and just about the only way to be safe is to keep your eyes covered so that you don't see whatever it is. A woman takes two small children on a long river trip to try and reach a safe place.
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101 - Brewster's Millions (1945) - 7.5/10 - Montague Brewster has just returned from the army and is about to marry his sweetheart when he gets word that he has inherited money from his late uncle. However, he has to spend $1 million within two months in order to receive $7 million. If he tells anybody what he is doing or has any money left over then he forfeits everything. He sets out to lose money, but finds himself making money instead by accident. It was a decent version of the story.
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102 - Alice (1990) - 6.5/10 - Fairly typical Woody Allen fare. Mia Farrow is a wealthy housewife who starts to see a Chinese doctor because of aches and pains in her back and elsewhere. It leads to her examining her life and relationships and she finds that she is generally unhappy with the status quo.

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103 - The Last Voyage - 7.5/10 - A somewhat predictable, but entertaining disaster movie about a cruise liner that suffers catastrophic failures that lead to its sinking, though the captain holds off on getting the passengers off the ship for a long time in hopes of saving the ship.
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