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2) Painted lady
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After a failed suicide attempt Maggie Sheridan is taken in by Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian.
3) Dead cert
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Bill Davidson's horse 'Admiral' behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from the injuries. His friend suspects the horse was doped by unscrupulous bookies and begins to investigate.
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This 1939 musical about plantation life in the antebellum South features lyrics by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes. The movie is a curious period piece with a somewhat unrealistic attitude toward the treatment of African-American slaves, but the perspective is fascinating and the music and singing memorable.
10) Another thin man
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Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional vivants Nick & Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood.
12) Winchester '73
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An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and Stewart's own murderous brother.
15) The pale horse
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Chilling tale of voodoo, extortion, murder, and romance from Agatha Christie's best selling novel.
20) Endeavour
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In 1965, the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse is recruited into the hunt for a missing schoolgirl and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.