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You Were Meant for Me (1948) Lloyd Bacon, Jeanne Crain, Dan Dailey, Oscar Levant, Musical

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This musical romance is set during the Great Depression and centers upon the rocky marriage between a flapper script girl and her band-leader spouse. Prior to the big stock market crash, they spend much of their time touring. She tires of it and returns to her country home. Unable to find new bookings, he soon joins her and brings with him his acerbic, cynical manager. The bandleader finds the pastoral life a crashing bore and so heads for the big city to find fortune. Fortunately, by the story’s end, he succeeds and happiness is the result. Songs include: “Crazy Rhythm,” “You Were Meant for Me,” “Goodnight Sweetheart” “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry.”
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Trial (1955) Mark Robson, Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, Drama

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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be compromised by “special interests”. It all begins when Mexican youth Angelo Chavez (Rafael Campos) is placed on trial for the murder of a white teenaged girl. Battling the lynch-mob mentality in and out of the courtroom is relatively inexperienced defense attorney David Blake (Glenn Ford). Believing that anything done on behalf of his client is for the common good, Blake approves the organization of an “Angelo Chavez Society” to pay the boy’s court costs and ostensibly see that justice is done in the face of small-town prejudice. Soon, however, Blake discovers that both he and his client are being used as dupes by a Communist lawyer, who hopes that Chavez will be found guilty and executed, thereby creating a martyr for the Red cause. Much was made in 1955 of the fact that the presiding judge is a black man, played by Juano Hernandez. A bit creaky at times, Trial nonetheless still packs a wallop when shown today.
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The Questor Tapes (1974) Richard A. Colla, Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Sci-Fi

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Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he’s disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor’s brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who’s now under suspect of having stolen the android.
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Dominoes (1993) Paul Thomas, Kelly O’Dell, Paula Harlow, Tina Tyler, Randy Spears, Tom Byron, Tony Tedeschi, Adult

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When relationships collide, they stand or fall, just like dominoes. Kelly O’dell has a long-standing relationship with Randy Spears. They’re in love, but haven’t crossed the line between platonic and physical. That changes when Randy introduces a friend to Kelly, a friend instantly drawn to her. Vivid presents Dominoes, starring the beautiful Kelly O’Dell, hot newcomer Paula Harlow and raven vixen, Tina Tyler. Rent Dominoes. And let the chips fall where they may.
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Looking For Mr Goodsex (1985) Jack Remy, Joanna Storm, Taija Rae, Lois Ayres, Amber Lynn, Adult, Drama

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Joanna Storm is the publisher of a national women’s magazine, and she has given herself a difficult assignment. For her February Valentine’s Day issue, she wants to feature more than just a “Hunk Of The Month”. She has decided that she needs a very special man to fill those pages and to satisfy her female readers’ fantasies. She is looking for “Mr Goodsex.”
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Cool Money (2005) Gary Burns, James Marsters, John Cassini, Larry Manetti, Drama

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Bobby Comfort is the only one of three prison breakers who gets far, from Rochester (NY) to Florida. Once caught in the act of more thefts, he successfully pleads unlawful overextended incarceration and is free to return to his wife Peggy and daughter Stephanie. Mystery crime mind Sammy Nalo tempts Bobby to try a new ‘niche’, stealing from barely-protected New York state hotels. Clever Bobby saves the day despite his accomplices’ violent stupidity and enjoys using his charms. However his own in-law, Phil Parris, besotted with Peggy and demoted from detective to uniformed, ultimately gets the authorities motivated to start a task force.
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