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Great cinema classics

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The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the trainI cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughterAlgiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious CasbahThe scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlockMissouri traveler (1958): 15-year-old orphan Biarn Turner (De Wilde) struggles to survive in the rural South in the 1910's. He arrives in a small town where crusty small-town newspaper editor Doyle Magee (Merrill) decides to take the boy in and give him a chance at a regular life. Wealthy local farmer Tobias Brown (Marvin) also takes an interest in Biarn's future, but treats the young man cruelly, masking Tobias' real hidden feelings of affection and genuine concern. Biarn also proves his worth by training racehorses for the climactic annual horse raceBecky Sharp (1935): Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic warsThe pied piper of Hamelin (1957): The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help a rival town when it's flooded. But rats (seen only as shadows), fleeing the flood, invade Hamelin in droves; a magical piper, whose music only children (and rats) can hear, strikes a bargain ... which, once the rats are gone, the Mayor and council renege on, to their subsequent regretNicholas Nickleby (1947): The impoverished widow Mrs. Nickleby takes lodgings in the house of Miss La Creevy on the Strand, together with her adult children Nicholas and Kate. She asks her brother-in-law, the wealthy Ralph Nickleby, to help her son find employment. Nicholas is soon hired as an assistant at Mr. Squeers's Academy in Dotheboys Hall outside London. When he sees Mr. Squeers flogging the pupils, he tries to stop it, gets into a fight with the school master, and is fired. Back in London he finds his sister Kate being insulted by her uncle's friends. When Nicholas objects, Ralph Nickleby orders him to leave London. Otherwise the uncle will stop providing for the mother and the sister. Nicholas joins Crummlers' Theatrical Company as an actor, and is a huge success as Romeo. He returns to London to stop the continuing sexual harassments of his sister. When he finds employment with the Cheeryble Brothers, the family isn't dependent on Ralph Nickleby anymore. Nicholas falls in love with Madeline Bray, who he saves from being forced into a hateful marriage with the miser Arthur GrideThe 39 steps (1935): A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret informationThey made me a criminal (1939): A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunkThe red house (1947): An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandon farmhouse, located deep in the woodsLady of burlesque (1943): After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike againAdventure Island (1947): Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made rulerOliver Twist (1933): An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thievesVanity fair (1932): This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role

Disc 1. The lady vanishes (1938) -- I cover the waterfront (1933) -- Algiers (1938) -- The scarlet letter (1934) -- Missouri traveler (1958) -- Becky Sharp (1935) -- The pied piper of Hamelin (1957) -- Nicholas Nickleby (1947) -- disc 2. The 39 steps (1935) -- They made me a criminal (1939) -- The red house (1947) -- Lady of burlesque (1943) -- Adventure Island (1947) -- Oliver Twist (1933) -- Vanity fair (1932)

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