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What Nixon Saw and When He Saw It by Mark Feeney
What Nixon Saw and When He Saw It by Mark Feeney Appendix from Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
"Movies and Richard Milhous Nixon can each tell us a lot about America. In this sui generis study— combining film analysis, social history, psychological observation, and political biography—Mark Feeney reminds us that Nixon and the movies can also tell us a lot about each other. It will take further decades fully to understand the subliminal life of RMN. Here's a great beginning."—Kevin Starr "In Nixon at the Movies, Mark Feeney has given us a thought-provoking and truly original book—a work filled with incisive insights into a fascinating figure."— Robert A. Caro
This list of Nixon screenings is primarily drawn from the President's Daily Diary, which was kept by the Secret Service throughout his presidency. During much of 1969, the diary was kept in a sketchier fashion than during 1970–73. In December 1973, the White House became increasingly anxious about leaks as Watergate worsened and directed the Secret Service to keep a less detailed record of the president's daily schedule. Citations that do not list a date, site, or both, are drawn from one of three sources: The Haldeman Diaries; a 1970 memorandum Rose Mary Woods prepared in response to a Newsweek query as to what films Nixon had seen while president; or, from the second half of December 1973 until August 1974, the personal logs kept by White House projectionist Paul Fisher. I am very grateful to Mr. Fischer for sharing that information, as well as to Irv Letofsky for putting me in touch with him. Key to screening sites: WH CD KB SC PS GC CB MI AI
White House Camp David Key Biscayne San Clemente Walter Annenberg's Palm Springs estate Robert Abplanalp's Grand Cay home Caneel Bay Plantation Minot Island, Maine Thomas McCabe's residence on Assateague Island, Maryland
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
1/22
WH
The Sound of Music
2/14
WH
The Sand Pebbles
2/15 3/29
CD CD
Play Dirty
4/12
CD
Doctor Zhivago
4/19
CD
Where Eagles Dare
4/25
CD
Camelot
5/17
KB
A Man for All Seasons
5/23
CD
Mayerling
5/29
KB
Twisted Nerve
5/30
KB
Bullitt
5/31
KB
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6/4
SC
Shalako
6/5
SC 1/13
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Support Your Local Sheriff
6/20
CD
True Grit
6/28
WH
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7/2
KB
My Side of the Mountain
7/5
KB
Sound of Anger
7/11
CD
My Little Chickadee
7/17
CD
West Side Story
7/18
CD
The Odd Couple
7/26
CD
Gigi
8/?
SC
The Happiest Millionaire
8/?
SC
Dead Run
8/?
SC
The Guns of Navarone
8/?
SC
The Longest Day
8/?
SC
The Dirty Dozen
8/13
CD
Their Finest Hour
8/14
WH
Born Free
9/19
CD
How to Commit Marriage
10/11
CD
Hard Contract
10/17
WH
Roman Holiday
10/18
WH
The Scalphunters
10/24
CD
Oliver!
11/1
CD
The Bridge at Remagen
11/6
CD
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
11/15
CD
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
11/22
CD
Cat Ballou
11/27
KB
The Great Bank Robbery
11/28
KB
The Undefeated
11/29
KB
The Pink Jungle
12/13
CD
P.J.
12/14
CD
Marooned
12/20
WH
Hello, Dolly
12/26
WH
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
12/31
SC
1970 Film The Sea Gull
1/1
SC
Sweet Charity
1/3
SC
The Robe
1/4
PS
Around the World in 80 Days
1/5
PS
Those Were the Happy Times
1/6
SC
The Sterile Cuckoo
1/7
CD
Civilisation
1/?
WH
Paint Your Wagon
1/24
CD
Cactus Flower
1/31
CD
2/7
CD
2/12
KB
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Hawaii
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2/13
KB
Anne of the Thousand Days
2/?
CD
Quo Vadis
3/6
KB
To Catch a Thief
3/13
CD
Paper Lion
3/26
KB
Funny Girl
3/28
KB
The Stalking Moon
3/29
KB
Hamlet
4/3
CD
Patton
4/4
WH
The Caine Mutiny
4/6
WH
My Fair Lady
4/14
CD
The Cincinnati Kid
4/24
CD
Patton
4/25
WH
The Last Hurrah
5/1
CD
The Blue Max
5/2
CD
Sunrise at Campobello
5/6
WH
Topkapi
5/12
WH
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
5/13
WH
Oklahoma!
5/14
KB
Before Winter Comes
5/15
KB
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5/17
KB
Ice Station Zebra
5/22
CD
The Cardinal
5/23
CD
The Train
5/29
WH
How the West Was Won
5/30
KB
Smith
6/6
CD
Patton
6/12
KB
The Battle of Britain
6/13
KB
War and Peace
6/19
CD
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
6/21
CD
The Egg and I
6/25
SC
Flower Drum Song
6/26
SC
Auntie Mame
7/1
SC
Father Goose
7/3
SC
The Professionals
7/5
SC
Our Man in Havana
7/?
CD
The Out-of-Towners
7/25
SC
Bell, Book and Candle
7/26
SC
Chisum
7/31
SC
Swiss Family Robinson
8/2
SC
Cromwell
8/7
CD
The Cross and the Switchblade
8/8
CD
The Sicilian Clan
8/15
CD
Dial M for Murder
8/22
SC
Born Yesterday
8/23
SC
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
8/24
SC
Mister Roberts
8/25
SC
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8/28
SC
Wilson
8/30
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Chisum
8/31
SC
The Roaring Twenties
9/4
SC
The Big Country
9/5
SC
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
9/11
CD
McCloud
9/12
CD
Operation Cross Eagles
9/?
CD
The Chairman
9/?
WH
A Place in History
9/?
WH
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
9/?
WH
Giant
10/8
KB
The Country Girl
10/9
KB
10/10
KB
The Americanization of Emily
11/2
SC
Khartoum
11/6
KB
The African Queen
11/7
KB
Walk, Don't Run
11/9
GC
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
11/13
WH
How Do I Love Thee?
11/14
CD
Richard III
11/20
CD
Tora! Tora! Tora!
11/26
WH
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
11/27
WH
The Greatest Show on Earth
11/28
CD
12/5
CD
Stagecoach
12/19
WH
Love Story
12/24
WH
You Can't Take It with You
12/25
WH
Pursuit of the Graf Spee
12/26
CD
Mildred Pierce
Good Sam
1971 Film Anatomy of a Murder
1/1
CD
Barabbas
1/2
CD
Citizen Kane
1/5
WH
All About Eve
1/7
SC
Mississippi
1/8
SC
Gigi
1/9
SC
Torn Curtain
1/11
SC
Doctor Zhivago
1/15
CD
Sitting Pretty
1/16
CD
Song of Norway
1/25
WH
Spartacus (Trumbo)
1/29
CB
High Society
1/30
CB
The Iron Petticoat
1/31
CB
2/6
CD
Dr. Day Revisited and A Man Named Lombardi Four W. C. Fields shorts
2/11
KB
The Great Chase
2/12
GC
2/13–14
KB
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Friendly Persuasion
2/20
CD
Around the World in 80 Days
2/27
CD
Lawrence of Arabia
3/3
CD
Lawrence of Arabia, part 2
3/6
CD
In Harm's Way
3/12
KB
The Sundowners
3/13
KB
The Flight of the Phoenix
3/14
GC
Arabesque
3/27
SC
A Man Could Get Killed
3/29
SC
Sahara
4/2
SC
The List of Adrian Messenger
4/3
SC
Rio Lobo
4/4
SC
Ryan's Daughter
4/10
CD
A New Leaf
4/71
WH
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
4/71
CD
Captain Horatio Hornblower
4/30
SC
Houseboat
5/1
SC
The High Commissioner
5/2
SC
The Egyptian
5/14
KB
Ship of Fools
5/16
KB
The Lady from Shanghai
5/21
WH
Take the Money and Run
5/22
KB
Red Sky at Morning
5/23
KB
Red Ball Express
5/24
KB
Waterloo
5/29
CD
Plaza Suite
5/30
CD
Rose Marie
6/5
CD
The Cheyenne Social Club
6/6
CD
Broken Lance
6/18
KB
Donovan's Reef
6/19
KB
Zeppelin
6/25
CD
Shane
6/26
CD
Proudly They Came and Valdez Is Coming
7/4
CD
All the Brothers Were Valiant
7/7
SC
Breakfast at Tiffany's
7/8
SC
The Apartment
7/9
SC
The Quiet Man
7/11
SC
Diamond Head
7/13
SC
They Might Be Giants
7/14
SC
Raid on Rommel
7/16
SC
Damn Yankees
7/17
SC
The Last Valley
7/24
CD
That Touch of Mink
7/25
CD
The Barbarian and the Geisha
7/31
CD
A Fistful of Dollars
8/6
MI
The Conqueror
8/7
MI
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
8/9
SC
The Virginian
8/17
SC
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
8/21
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
8/22
SC
El Cid
8/23
SC
The Fortune Cookie
8/24
SC
The Ipcress File
8/27
SC
Shanghai Express
8/29
SC
Send Me No Flowers
8/30
SC
9/5
CD
9/11
CD
The Alamo Big Jake Hud
9/17
CD
9/18–19
CD
The Sheepman
9/20
WH
Wild Rovers
9/24
WH
The Grass Is Greener
10/1
KB
To Kill a Mockingbird
10/3
KB
The Red Tent
10/9
CD
The Bravados
10/10
WH
Beau James
10/15
CD
Klute
10/24
CD
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
11/5
KB
Wait Until Dark
11/7
KB
San Francisco
11/12
CD
The Bad and the Beautiful
11/13
CD
Suspicion
11/20
CD
Gaslight
11/25
SC
Cleopatra
Cannon for Cordoba
12/3
KB
The Badlanders
12/16
KB
The Last Run
12/17
KB
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
12/19
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The Night Visitor
12/22
CD
Brian's Song
12/23
CD
Nicholas and Alexandra
12/25
WH
Love in the Afternoon
12/29
KB
The Lonely Profession
12/30
KB
1972 Film The Brothers Karamazov
1/7
SC
Hotel
1/13
CD
Papa's Delicate Condition
1/14
CD
Lawman
1/15
CD
The Brothers Karamazov
1/29
CD
Romance of a Horsethief
2/4
KB
2/11–12
GC
Kotch
3/1
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Nine Hours to Rama
3/2
KB
Dr. No
3/3
KB
3/10
CD
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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The Last Picture Show
3/11
CD
The Music Lovers
3/17
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Paris When It Sizzles
3/18
WH
The Grapes of Wrath
3/24
CD
The French Connection
3/25
CD
Lord Jim
4/1
CD
Duel in the Sun
4/2
CD
Bachelor in Paradise
4/6
KB
Boomerang
4/7
KB
The Godfather
4/21
CD
There Was a Crooked Man
4/22
CD
Diamonds Are Forever
4/27
KB
Pendulum
4/29
KB
Critic's Choice
5/5
CD
Kidnapped
5/6
CD
Funeral in Berlin
5/7
CD
Goldfinger
5/11
CD
The Carpetbaggers
5/12
CD
Good Neighbor Sam
5/13
CD
From Russia with Love
5/18
CD
Move Over, Darling
5/19
WH
The Prince and the Showgirl
6/2
KB
Elmer Gantry
6/3
KB
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6/4
KB
Take Her, She's Mine
6/8
CD
The Skin Game
6/16
GC
The Notorious Landlady
6/17
GC
When Eight Bells Toll
6/18
KB
The Cardinal
6/21
WH
Hang 'Em High
6/23
CD
The Hot Rock
6/24
CD
Harlow
7/1
SC
The V.I.P.s
7/3
SC
Reap the Wild Wind
7/4
SC
Coogan's Bluff
7/5
SC
Irma La Douce
7/9
SC
Gambit
7/11
SC
Two documentaries (on Pat's visit to Africa and the Washington Redskins)
7/12
SC
Skyjacked
7/19
WH
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
7/22
CD
Fort Apache
7/24
WH
Lady Liberty
7/29
CD
The Mouse that Roared
7/30
CD
Frenzy
8/4
AI
The War between Men and Women
8/5
AI
Bend of the River
8/11
CD
Joe Kidd
8/12
CD
9/3
SC
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Crusade in Europe
9/6
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Cabaret
9/8
CD
The Groundstar Conspiracy
9/9
CD
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid
9/16
CD
The Man
9/19
CD
Yankee Doodle Dandy
9/23
CD
Their Finest Hour
9/24
CD
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
9/26
CD
War and Peace
9/30
CD
Fiddler on the Roof
10/1
CD
Major Dundee
10/5
WH
The King and I
10/7
CD
South Pacific
10/14
CD
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
10/20
CD
The Sons of Katie Elder
10/24
WH
10/?
CD
Midnight Lace Cancel My Reservation
10/29
CD
Crusade in Europe
10/31
WH
Civilisation
11/5
SC
Victory at Sea
11/8
KB
The Great Escape
11/9
KB
Boys' Night Out
11/10
KB
Fuzz
11/12
CD
John Paul Jones
11/16
CD
Man with a Million
11/19
CD
Young Winston
11/22
CD
The Emigrants
11/23
CD
The Carey Treatment
11/26
CD
Pancho Villa
11/27
CD
Rio Bravo
11/28
CD
The Heroes of Telemark
12/3
KB
What the Peeper Saw
12/7
CD
The Candidate
12/8
CD
Sounder
12/9
CD
The Poseidon Adventure
12/12
WH
The Hanging Tree
12/17
WH
Charade
12/20
KB
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
12/21
KB
The Lady Eve
12/22
KB
Butterfield 8
12/24
KB
The Big Clock
12/28
CD
The General Died at Dawn
12/29
CD
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Three Coins in the Fountain
1/6
CD
Ride the High Country
1/7
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The Maltese Falcon
1/9
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Mary, Queen of Scots
1/12
KB
The More the Merrier
1/26
KB
Tom Jones
1/27
KB
This Gun for Hire
1/28
KB
The Accused
2/3
CD
So Big
2/4
CD
A Double Life
2/8
SC
On the Waterfront
2/9
SC
The Last Voyage
2/10
SC
Undercurrent
2/11
SC
The Man Who Knew Too Much
2/13
SC
Some Like It Hot
2/16
KB
Keeper of the Flame
2/17
KB
Boom Town
2/18
KB
Vertigo
2/23
CD
The Doctor Takes a Wife
2/24
CD
Viva Zapata!
3/4
CD
Picnic
3/9
CD
3/10
CD
To the Ends of the Earth
3/11
WH
Texas
3/15
WH
Sleuth
3/18
CD
Frenchman's Creek
3/24
KB
Anne of the Thousand Days
3/25
KB
The Shepherd of the Hills
3/26
KB
Three Little Words
3/30
SC
Two Rode Together
4/1
SC
Gideon of Scotland Yard
4/3
SC
Meet Me in St. Louis
4/4
SC
Kind Hearts and Coronets
4/5
SC
Forever and a Day
4/7
SC
Some Came Running
4/20
KB
The Seven Year Itch
4/21
KB
The Quiet Man
4/23
GC
Ocean's 11
5/3
KB
What Price Glory
5/4
KB
Inherit the Wind
5/6
KB
Notorious
5/10
WH
The Long Voyage Home
5/11
CD
Hammersmith Is Out
5/12
CD
The War Wagon
5/13
CD
The Searchers
5/17
WH
A Hole in the Head
5/19
CD
High Plains Drifter
5/20
CD
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
5/22
WH
Tea and Sympathy
5/23
CD
Indiscreet
5/25
KB
Proud Rebel
5/26
KB
Owen Marshall
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Twelve O'Clock High
5/27
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Night People
6/2
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Separate Tables
6/8
KB
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
6/9
KB
Stage Fright
6/15
KB
The Lady Killers
6/16
KB
A Letter to Three Wives
6/25
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Love Me or Leave Me
6/26
SC
Never Let Me Go
6/27
SC
Pat and Mike
6/28
SC
The Gazebo
6/29
SC
The Citadel
6/30
SC
Daisy Kenyon
7/1
SC
The Railway Children
7/2
SC
North to Alaska
7/4
SC
Alexander the Great
7/5
SC
Tom Sawyer
7/6
SC
His Majesty O'Keefe
7/7
SC
The Far Country
7/8
SC
Rebel without a Cause
7/?
SC
Detective Story
7/?
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The Iron Duke
7/21
CD
Life with Father
7/22
CD
The Day of the Jackal
7/23
CD
Centennial Summer
7/28
CD
Vera Cruz
7/29
CD
A Touch of Class
8/3
CD
The Sky Above, the Mud Below
8/4
CD
Man on a String
8/5
CD
Run for Cover
8/8
CD
The Nelson Affair
8/9
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8/17
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The Light that Failed You Gotta Stay Happy
8/18
KB
8/23–24
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
8/25
SC
Ivanhoe
8/26
SC
Kentucky
8/27
SC
On the Town
8/28
SC
Dark Victory
8/29
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All This and Heaven Too
8/30
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
9/1
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The Blue Dahlia
9/2
SC
David and Bathsheba
9/8
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
9/9
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Lady Ice
9/14
CD
Paper Moon
9/15
CD
A King's Story
9/16
CD
Scorpio
9/22
CD
Key Largo
9/23
CD
Lawrence of Arabia
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Bang the Drum Slowly
9/29
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Lonely Are the Brave
9/30
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Play Misty for Me
10/4
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Khartoum
10/6
KB
Zulu
10/13
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Suez
10/16
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The Sting
10/19
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The Searching Wind
10/20
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The World in His Arms
10/23
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Fail-Safe
10/27
CD
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
10/29
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Live and Let Die
10/31
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The Master Touch
11/3
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Heaven Can Wait
11/?
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The Way We Were
11/9
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The Long Gray Line
11/10
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
11/22
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My Darling Clementine
11/23
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A Foreign Affair
11/24
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The Last of Sheila
12/1
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A Man for All Seasons
12/2
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Western Union
12/7
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
12/8
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The Flim-Flam Man
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Travels with My Aunt
12/?
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Drums Along the Mohawk
12/?
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Anastasia
12/?
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The House of Rothschild
12/?
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Jane Eyre
12/?
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Cahill: United States Marshal
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Passage to Marseilles
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives
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They Came to Cordura
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The Whole Town's Talking
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An Affair to Remember
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American Graffiti
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Executive Action
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The Long Goodbye
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A Kiss Before Dying
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Harry in Your Pocket
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The Sting
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The Collector
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England Made Me
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Mame
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The Day of the Dolphin
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Pony Express
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Destination Gobi
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The Omega Man
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Butterflies Are Free
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Cheyenne Autumn
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Von Ryan's Express
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Friendly Persuasion
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A Place in History
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The Way We Were
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Sunset Boulevard
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Magnum Force
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Becket The Great Gatsby
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Call of the Wild
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What's Up, Doc?
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
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The Sugarland Express
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The Long, Hot Summer The Paper Chase
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Rio Conchos
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The Seven-Ups
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On the Beach
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Shenandoah
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