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    Kiss me deadly "Tough L.A. private eye Mike Hammer gives a ride to Christina, a frightened young woman he finds running along the road one night. His car is run off the road by unseen thugs. Hammer is knocked out and Christina is tortured in an unsuccessful attempt to get information from her. They are put back into Hammer's car which then is forced off a cliff....
    • Contributor: Devol, Frank - Stewart, Paul - Addy, Wesley - Parklane Pictures, Inc - Dekker, Albert - Laszlo, Ernest - Luciano, Michael - Mgm Collection (Library of Congress) - Meeker, Ralph - Hernandez, Juano - Bezzerides, A. I. (Albert Isaac) - Cooper, Maxine - Leachman, Cloris - Aldrich, Robert
    • Date: 1997
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    Killer of sheep A realistic portrait of a black, urban Los Angeles community. Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, struggles to provide for his family, love his wife, and maintain responsibility to his community. Though his everyday life is filled with setbacks--he struggles with frustration, depression, and the temptation of friends trying to get him involved in their shady dealings--he perseveres in the hope of better life for himself...
    • Contributor: Burnett, Charles - Moore, Kaycee - Burnett (Charles) Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanders, Henry G. (Henry Gale)
    • Date: 1978
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    [By right of birth--clips] Consists of short clips, flash frames, and some interior titles; clips appear to be out of order: detective Pinky Webb resting his aching feet; Juanita Cooper being thrown from a horse and aided by Philip Jones; various scenes of Geraldine Cooper, alone and with Manuel Romero; scenes with various characters in Mr. Jones' office, including Pinky Webb, Frank Cooper, Juanita Cooper, Minnie Childers, and...
    • Contributor: Lincoln Motion Picture Company - Smith, Jimmie - Bates, Lester - Brooks, Clarence - King, Webb - Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson - Mitchell, Dora - George, Beatrice - Hall, Beulah - Ellenwood, Grace - Gant, Harry A. - Johnson, Noble - Meehan, Lew - Johnson, George P.
    • Date: 1921
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    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916
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    Blade runner In the year 2019 in Los Angeles, replicants, genetically engineered human beings of superior strength and intelligence, have been created as labor for the planet colonies. The replicants, which have a life span of four years, start revolts and are forbidden on earth. Four Nexus 6 replicants, which are virtually indistinguishable from humans, commandeer a space shuttle to earth. Rick Deckard is a blade...
    • Contributor: Hauer, Rutger - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Francher, Hampton - Young, Sean - Peoples, David Webb - Scott, Ridley - Ford, Harrison
    • Date: 1987
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    Vertigo Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia--that is vertigo or dizziness in high places. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes obsessive in...
    • Contributor: Jones, Henry - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Boileau, Pierre - Hitchcock, Alfred - Helmore, Tom - Taylor, Samuel - Universal Pictures (Firm) - Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions - Coppel, Alec - Novak, Kim - Bel Geddes, Barbara - Stewart, James
    • Date: 1984
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    The grapes of wrath Tom Joad, a paroled convict, returns to his family farm in the Oklahoma only to learn that the Joads have been forced off their land by dust storms and crop failures, and are joining other displaced families all migrating to California for work and a better life. After a grueling and dangerous trip, they arrive at a terrible migrant camp, full of starving families...
    • Contributor: Simpson, Russell - Zanuck, Darryl Francis - Grapewin, Charles - Fonda, Henry - Carradine, John - Steinbeck, John - Newman, Alfred - Simpson, Robert - Whitehead, O. Z. - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation - Bowdon, Dorris - Darwell, Jane - Toland, Gregg - Johnson, Nunnally - Ford, John
    • Date: 1940
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    Chinatown Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes is approached by a mysterious woman who wishes to have her husband investigated. As the case unfolds, though, he discovers it to be much more complex and dangerous than he had expected, involving politics, powerful men, and terrible family secrets.
    • Contributor: Rca Corporation - Polanski, Roman - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunaway, Faye - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Paramount Home Video (Firm) - Towne, Robert - Evans, Robert - Long Road Productions - Huston, John - Paramount Collection (Library of Congress) - Nicholson, Jack
    • Date: 1981
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    Boyz n the hood
    Boyz in the hood     In 1984 South Central Los Angeles, Reva Styles sends her wild son Tre to live with his father, Furious Styles. He becomes close friends with Ricky and Doughboy Baker. Seven years later, the three are reunited at a barbecue for Doughboy's release from prison. Tre and Furious, a financial adviser who speaks out against violence between black gangs as serving white oppression, have a...
    • Contributor: Ice Cube - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Singleton, John - Fishburne, Laurence - Gooding, Cuba
    • Date: 1991
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    The Maltese falcon Hard-boiled San Francisco private detectives, Sam Spade and Miles Archer, are offered a large retainer by a "Miss Wonderly" to protect her from a man named Floyd Thursby. The detectives believe neither Miss Wonderly nor her story, but they believe her money. Archer saw her first, so he takes the case. Later that evening he is shot to death, as is the mysterious Thursby....
    • Contributor: Blanke, Henry - Greenstreet, Sydney - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - George, Gladys - Bond, Ward - Haas, Robert ... Blanke, Henry - Greenstreet, Sydney - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bogart, Humphrey - Cook, Elisha - Wallis, Hal B. - Patrick, Lee - George, Gladys - Bond, Ward - Haas, Robert - Maclane, Barton - Richards, Thomas - Forbstein, Leo F. - Lorre, Peter - Warner Bros. Pictures - Cowan, Jerome - Astor, Mary - Huston, John - Deutsch, Adolph - Edeson, Arthur - Hammett, Dashiell
    • Date: 1941
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    Rebel without a cause A melodrama about maladjusted adolescents who live in a comfortable middle-class neighborhood near Los Angeles. After moving into the neighborhood, an emotionally-confused teen-ager becomes involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.
    • Contributor: Allen, Corey - Hudson, Rochelle - Wood, Natalie - Ray, Nicholas - Warner Bros. Pictures - Stern, Stewart - Weisbart, David - Rosenman, Leonard - Hopper, Dennis - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) ... Allen, Corey - Hudson, Rochelle - Wood, Natalie - Ray, Nicholas - Warner Bros. Pictures - Stern, Stewart - Weisbart, David - Rosenman, Leonard - Hopper, Dennis - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Dean, James - Doran, Ann - Shulman, Irving - Backus, Jim - Adams, Nick - Mineo, Sal
    • Date: 1955
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    Show people Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies), a Georgia girl who wants to be a dramatic actress, goes to Hollywood and at first can find work only as a patsy for Billy Boone (William Haines) in slapstick comedies. Billy, however, soon helps Peggy to become both a serious actress and a star. Fame and wealth go to Peggy's head; she becomes vain and snubs Billy in favor...
    • Contributor: Henderson, Dell - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Turner Entertainment Co. Collection (Library of Congress) - Davies, Marion - Stallings, Laurence - Tuchock, Wanda - Johnston, Agnes Christine - Haines, William - Vidor, King
    • Date: 1928