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At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.

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Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

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A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.

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A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

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Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.

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Original 1956 black & white version

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up. Based on the board game.

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After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

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2005 version

A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widowed handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of his 8 and her 10 children.

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Instead of coming in from field work during the Cold War and taking a desk job, British intelligence agent Alec Leamas chooses to take on another assignment.

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The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.

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During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

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Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.

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"Letters to Juliet"

Sophie travels to Verona where she finds an old unanswered letter asking for love advice. She answers it and when the recipient shows up along with her grumpy grandson, they head off to find the old long lost love while a young love sparks

"Some Like it Hot"

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

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A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.

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Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

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1988

A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

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1980

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.

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A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

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Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.

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Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

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The Magnificent Seven:

Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.

The Great Train Robbery:

England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.

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When Sebastian, a pianist, and Mia, an actress, follow their passion and achieve success in their respective fields, they find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.

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In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

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A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.

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Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.

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When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.

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Several different motorists witness a single car crash in the California desert and, after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, turn against each other in a mad dash across the state to get to it.

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Benjamin Button, born in 1918 with the physical state of an elderly man, ages in reverse. He experiences love and break-ups, ecstasy and sorrow, and timelessness by the time he dies in 2003 as a baby.

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Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

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A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

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A New Yorker newly separated from his wife moves in with his best friend, a divorced sportswriter, but their ideas of housekeeping and lifestyles are as different as night and day.

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The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.

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An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.

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A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

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The original 1970s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.

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A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

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New in Town
A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.
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Pride
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.

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During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

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When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.

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Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
A musical comedy from 2002.

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A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.

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Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American Midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

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In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.

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When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

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After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

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An insurance salesman is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors. As he starts noticing things and uncovers the truth, he decides to escape.

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An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
Starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, and Winona Ryder.

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Moonstruck:
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.

Bride and Prejudice:
A modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family.

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The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.

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Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

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After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

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In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.

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A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.

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Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

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In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

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A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.

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Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

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Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems. Jeff and Robert sit down and talk all things "Terms of Endearment." From behind-the-scenes antics to little known trivia. We cover it all! 

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Robert and Jeff settle in for a Double Feature. This week it's "Witness" and "Chinatown." 
First up, "Witness." While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
Followed by, "Chinatown." A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

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Jeff & Robert sit down and discuss Eight Men Out. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. Starring John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, and Charlie Sheen.

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A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. Starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert. Written by Dalton Trumbo.

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This episode of The OETA Movie Club Podcast features "Funny Face" starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. An impromptu fashion shoot at a bookstore brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Jeff & Robert share the little-known trivia about this movie.

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Robert and Jeff sit down and discuss "Little Man Tate." A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift. It stars Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest.

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Jeff and Robert discuss all the little-known trivia facts about "The Artist." This is a silent, black & white movie but don't let that scare you away. This Oscar winning movie is truly great. When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

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This week Robert and Jeff talk about the 2016 academy award winning film Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. A working-class African American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

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A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. Jeff and Robert sit down and discuss all things trivia and behind the scenes with A Place in the Sun. 

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A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana. Join Robert and Jeff for some behind the scenes gossip on Gene Hackman! Please listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each week Saturdays at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm on OETA! 

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Robert and Jeff discuss "Lion". A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of miles from home. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Check it out, learn some trivia, and listen each week wherever you get your podcasts. Also, find us Saturday nights at 9pm and Friday nights at 11pm on OETA!

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The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig starring Gary Cooper and Babe Ruth as himself. Robert and Jeff speak on the early days of baseball and how basically, the team owners and managers were jerks. They also throw in a few good trivia facts. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and tune in each Saturday at 9pm and Fridays at 11pm for great movies on OETA!
 

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A coming-of-age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Join Robert and Jeff as they talk little known trivia facts from this film.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA.

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Robert and Jeff discuss a double feature this week. It's Jack Black in School of Rock followed by Akeelah and the Bee. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA. 

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This week's special bonus episode is all about sequels! Which ones are the best and which ones are the worst according to our hosts? Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA. 

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This week's special bonus episode is all about hosts Robert Burch and Jeff Morava's favorite directors! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA. 

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This week's special bonus episode is all about hosts Robert Burch and Jeff Morava's favorite films! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and catch The OETA Movie Club on Saturdays at 9 pm on OETA. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Indiscreet (1958). Famous theater actress Anna Kalman (Ingrid Bergman) is living the single life, believing she has missed her chance at meeting a husband. Weary of socializing in Europe, she returns to her London flat, where her sister Margaret (Phyllis Calvert) and diplomat brother-in-law Alfred (Cecil Parker) invite her to a banquet. She hesitates until Alfred's banker friend, Philip Adams (Cary Grant), arrives and a flirtation begins. 

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   This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Shane (1953). The mysterious gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small town with hopes of settling down as a farmhand. After taking a job on Joe Starrett's (Van Heflin) farm, Shane is drawn into a battle between the people of the town and cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer). Shane's fondness for Startett's son, Joey (Brandon de Wilde), forces Shane to realize t

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  This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Guys and Dolls (1955).  A compulsive New York gambler, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), needs to stage a high-profile but illegal craps game before the police catch up to him. In the meantime, his criminal pal, the charming Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), attempts to forge an unlikely romance with straight-laced mission worker Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons). 

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   This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Birdcage (1996). In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles, a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents. This comedy classic stars Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest in an ensemble cast.

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  This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Addams Family (1991).  A man (Christopher Lloyd) asserting he is Uncle Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams (Raul Julia), arrives at the Addams' home, the family is ecstatic. However, Gomez's wife, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect the man is a fake. With the help of crook lawyer Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), 'Fester' manages to get the Addams evicted from their home. Gomez soon realizes the two men are planning to steal the Addams fortune.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Sunset Boulevard (1950). An aging silent film actress refuses to accept that her Hollywood stardom has ended. She hires a screenwriter to help set up her comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong.

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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Z for Zachariah (2015). Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) has been living a secluded life on her family farm, accepting that she may be the only survivor of an apocalyptic event that has been 'God's will.' One day, John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stumbles into the valley in his failing anti-radiation suit. As Loomis slowly regains his strength, he becomes part of Ann's humble rustic life, and a bond develops between them.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Brothers Bloom (2008). Twenty-five years of swindling is too much for Bloom (Adrien Brody) and he wants to be done. However, his brother, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo), convinces him to do one final hustle, targeting a heiress named Penelope (Rachel Weisz). 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eye of the Needle (1981). A ruthless German spy, Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland), is on his way back home from England after gathering information about the D-Day invasion for Hitler. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)! Henry Holland is a fussy supervisor who oversees gold bullion deliveries to the bank that he works at. In secret, he is planning to steal a load of bullion and retire early, but he can't figure out a way to sneak it out of the country. What could go wrong?

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss TWO films! It's a double feature with The Great Escape (1963) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). First, in The Great Escape, imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. After, in Birdman of Alcatraz, sentenced to life in solitary confinement after killing a prison guard, despondent inmate Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) combats loneliness and tedium by nursing an ailing bird back to h...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Magnificent Seven (1960). A Mexican village is at the mercy the leader of a band of outlaws. The townspeople, too afraid to fight for themselves, hire seven American gunslingers to free them from the bandits' raids. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Great Train Robbery (1978). Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian Era and he has yet to find a heist that he couldn't pull off. For his next heist, he plans something that has never been done before: rob a moving train. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stargate (1994). Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) teams up with retired Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) to unlock the code of an interstellar gateway to an ancient Egyptian-esque world. They arrive on a planet ruled by the despotic Ra (Jaye Davidson), who holds the key to the Earth travelers' safe return. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Autumn in New York (2000). Follow the successful restaurateur and womanizer, Will Keane (Richard Gere), who is a master of the no-commitment seduction until he runs into Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). It is a season long encounter that will shatter Will's preconceptions about women, relationships, and responsibility.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eight Men Out (1988). The Chicago White Sox are set to play the in the World Series of 1919, and are at odds with their team's owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who pays his players terrible wages. A group of professional gamblers offers the Sox's best athletes a fortune to throw the series and the players agree on the deal. What could go wrong?

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Pink Panther (1963). European thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) plans to steal a diamond, also known as the Pink Panther. However, his nephew, George (Robert Wagner) also plans to make off with the gem, and to frame Charles for the crime. French police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) intercedes, but finds his career, and his freedom, jeopardized.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Red Violin (1998). The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. Jackson). Over the years between, the violin travels through four different countries, where it has a profound impact on all those who own it.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stanley & Iris (1990). Iris (Jane Fonda) has a rough go of it after the death of her husband. Though still grieving, she lands a job at a bakery. Things start to look up when the kindhearted Stanley (Robert De Niro), a cook in the bakery, comes to her aid after she is mugged. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident. 

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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Apartment! C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in. 

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This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss In the Heat of the Night (1967), where Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. 

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss A Big Country (1958), where a New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

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 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Hoosiers! Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town.

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