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Enjoy endless hours of family fun with fifty classic movies digitally remastered onto twelve DVDs. This classic collection features screen legends such as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, and Walter Brennan. Also included are comedy favorites...Jimmy Durante, Eve Arden, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd...and many more! Discover a kinder, gentler humor from an era that celebrated friendship wit and sparkling dialogue. The impeccable comedic timing that delighted a generation is sure to tickle your funny bone. You get an instant library of classic entertainment featuring America's favorite stars! This MegaPack features digitally remastered works for a DVD collection that your family can treasure over the years!
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This romantic comedy centers around a recently discharge WAVE who becomes the love interest of four men, all whom lead a leisurely lifestyle. While attempted to feign off these would-be suitors, our heroine attempts to track down her missing fiancé, who is on the run from an angry millionaire. Hoping to find her fiancé, our former WAVE finds herself falling for one of her lazy suitors.
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A sea-faring captain returns home from a long voyage to find his household and business in disarray. His daughter is planning to marry a man he disapproves of and the potential mother-in-law has taken over his company. The captain loads them all on board his boat for a trip. Planning to "strand" everyone on an island with the hopes of clearing everything up, things don't go as planned when the entire party is actually marooned on the island.
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Two comics get up a gala fund-raising show to help the female owner of the theatre save it from creditors. Unfortunately, a mysterious figure has plans for the property and sets out to sabotage the show, starting by murdering the show sponsor.
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A publisher decides it's time to settle down with a woman of high society even though he loves another. After the wedding, the publisher discovers his wife isn't as loving as he wishes her to be, since she seems to be more concerned about her social settings than any personal relationship. Wishing for a change, the publisher decides to look up his former love to see if there is a chance at a loving relationship.
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Young newlyweds Bill and Kate Denny (Farley Granger and Shelley Winters) take in a stray dog named Archie. Archie is really a trained dog that is a go-between for two rival gangs of criminals. With a million-dollar counterfeiting scheme causing hostilities between the two gangs, our newlyweds and their adopted dog are thrown into the middle of the mix.
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Everyone's favorite group of juvenile delinquents, The East End Kids, takes their act out of the city and on the road. Heading out to the country for some rest, and to avoid further trouble in the old neighborhood, the boys find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Throw in a spooky mansion, a creepy housekeeper and a mystery to make this an adventure for the East End Kids!
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When a young bride-to-be's wedding day arrives and her fiancé is a no-show, due to a bachelor party hangover, she decides to teach him a lesson. The bride calls her lawyer in to see her and proposes to him on the spot. Marrying her lawyer and heading off on the honeymoon, the bride intends to quickly divorce him and marry her fiancé after he'd learned his lesson. What the bride doesn't know is her lawyer has been secretly in love with her and intends to use the "honeymoon" to woo her.
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An Army Colonel retires to his hometown in Georgia and is dismayed at the lack of civic pride his fellow citizens have. Taking up the task of bringing back some sense of history and tradition to the town, the colonel begins writing an article in the local newspaper. Shocked to learn that the town leaders plan on tearing down the Confederate Square and rechristen it in honor of the town's current mayor, the colonel ends up taking drastic measures against City Hall to prevent the travesty.
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Two con artists travel from town to town trying to sell their worthless gold-stock to unsuspecting victims. After a misunderstanding over offering a ride to a young man that led to possible kidnapping charges, the duo decides to use the opportunity to con the citizens of Centerville using a fake oil well swindle. The boys sell shares in an oil well that they erect on a small parcel of land they purchase and look to make some money and skip town, if not for the efforts of one young lady who sees the good behind the façade they project.
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An American tourist in South America finds fun and adventure after he teams up with a motorcycle-taxi driver. Acting as a personal tour guide, the driver takes the American throughout the city showing him the sights. Our tourist not only meets a pretty Senorita but he finds himself mixed up in a tea exporting deal.
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A young waitress has aspirations of making it into high society and marrying a wealthy gentleman. Through the effortss of a millionaire who secretly loves her, our young heroine eventually ends up with a former bootlegger, who thinks she's really a member of high society. Humorous twists and turns bring everyone involved to a surprising and fitting conclusion.
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This East End Kids adventure has Mugs working at the local airplane factory, where he becomes suspicious of the operator of an air ambulance service. Thinking it to be a front for a spy ring, Mugs enlists the aid of the rest of the East End Kids in uncovering the truth. The risk is high and the dangers abound, as Mugs and the gang tries to break up a ring of enemy agents.
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College boy Freckles returns home from school to his quiet hometown and hopes to bring some of his experiences back to his community. What he finds when he gets home is his girlfriend falling under the spell of a con artist and gangsters planning to rob a bank. Will Freckles and his pal Jeff be able to stop the bank robbers and will Freckles win back his sweetheart?
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Two young friends decide to become truck drivers but find themselves thrown into the middle of a war between the trucking firm owner and a gang of saboteurs. Hoping to help their new employer, the two men set out to track down the head of the saboteurs. Their hope is to expose the gang leader and save the company from being bought out by a rival firm.
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A wealthy gentleman and his valet end up involved with some women with ulterior motives. It seems the wealthy gentleman has problems with alimony payments for an ex-wife and he discovers his new wife is just out to get his money. The gentleman and his valet come up with a plan to foil the plans of their ex-wives and the gold digging new wife.
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A movie star cowboy turns out to have the opposite personality from his on-screen persona. After getting into some trouble in Las Vegas, the movie cowboy is freed through the effort of his female attorney. Marrying each other, the attorney decides to try to change her husband into the on-screen hero he portrays.
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Sgt. Doubleday (William Tracy) is the pride of his Colonel Barkley due to his photographic memory. After accidentally embarrassing firearms instructor Sgt. Ames because of his book memorization, Doubleday is mistaken for an expert marksman. Doubleday is set up in a firing range match with Sgt. Ames and Sgt. Cobb, the division's shooting champions.
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A small-town realtor is sitting on a large piece of land that turns out to be considered the site of the new airport. After he mistakenly believes he is going to die in a short time, the realtor decides to sell the land to benefit his family. Things really take a hilarious turn when the family believes him dead and a crooked swami and his partner look to take advantage of them.
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A female physician traveling to Chicago stops in her hometown to visit her uncle, the town's only doctor. Hoping to convince his niece to stay and take on part of the caseload at his practice, the country doctor plots with his pilot friend to keep her occupied. Faking an injury, the pilot has the niece take care of him and hopes he can romance his physician, whom he has fallen in love with.
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Two Army friends return to civilian life after World War II, getting jobs as a police officer and a newspaper reporter. The reporter ends up in the middle of a blackmail scheme between his publisher and a local crime boss, who is using the publisher's past relationship with a burlesque star as leverage. When the burlesque star turns up dead, the reporter and his policeman friend must uncover the truth behind the murder before an innocent man goes to prison.
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A reclusive artist is faced with a major social engagement that he dreads attempting and wishes to avoid. When his valet unexpectedly dies, it presents the artist an opportunity to assume the deceased man's identity and slip away. Unfortunately, assuming the valet's identity presents some unexpected complications for the artist, including a possible bigamy charge.
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John Wayne is Dick Wallace, a spoiled rich man whose father disapproves of his playboy-like ways. His father would rather have him settle down and take a job in his company as manager of the collection department. After taking the job to please his father and heading on a trip to make a collection, Wallace falls for the granddaughter of the man he is to collect from, Marion Hall (Evalyn Knapp). Despite his father's objections, Wallace marries the girl. Marion then takes a job as a secretary at the elder Wallace's company to prove him wrong about her and his son's marriage.
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A small-town girl heads to Hollywood in the hopes of making it as a starlet on the big screen. Hanging out at a soda counter in hopes of being discovered, she befriends the soda jerk not knowing he's really a screenwriter looking for material for a script.
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A small Arkansas town is turned upside down when a local sow gives birth to a large litter of piglets. Soon the place is filled with outsiders looking to get a piece of the action surrounding this event. While the locals try to keep things as normal as possible, they soon find themselves wrapped up in the spectacle.
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Danny Kaye stars in the musical comedy about a case of mistaken identity and the poor fool caught in the middle of it. Georgi (Kaye) is an illiterate member of a traveling medicine show who is mistaken by a small Russian village as the Inspector General, a royal official with vast powers. While the local government officials plot to bribe or kill him, Georgi ingrains himself into the public's favor all the while trying to find a way out of his situation.
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Charlie Chaplin's first starring role in a feature film was also written and directed by the star himself and took a whole year to make. The Tramp (Chaplin) discovers an abandoned baby and eventually adopts it as his own. Years later, the mother has become famous and begins looking for her son. The Tramp and The Kid (Jackie Coogan) live in the tenements and manage to enjoy their poor but happy life together. Circumstances arise that bring the mother and our duo together for a touching finale.
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In my limited exploration of silent cinema, I've watched several of Chaplin's films and overall I'm not a fan of his work. The Kid is the only exception to that. It's not funny (no Chaplin movie is), but it has a good emotional payoff and is worth watching. Probably more 3.5 stars than 3.
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A woman author writes a best-selling book that bashes men and is surprised when a Life Magazine photographer attempts to woo her. This unlikely pair starts out as bitter rivals on opposite sides but, as time goes on, the woman eventually realizes that she's fallen for him. Meanwhile, the photographer tries to win over the woman not knowing she has feelings for him.
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This Golden Globe winning and four-time Academy Award nominated comedy is based upon the long-running Broadway play. Mr. Day, a stockbroker, tries to run his house as efficiently as his firm does, but finds his home truly run by his loving, but simple, wife. His four sons are all involved with different interests that seem to add to the father's frustrations.
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A story concerning a case of mistaken identity, involving a well-known lawyer and an impersonator stage performer, ends up with some strange bedfellows in this hilarious comedy. When the performer asks the lawyer to allow him to impersonate him in his show. the lawyer asks the impersonator to prove his talent by fooling the lawyer's mother-in-law. This impersonation leads to a series of mistaken identities that ends up with very embarrassing situations.
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An American architect returns to the States after the war to resume his life before the conflict. Thinking he has picked up where he left off, the architect is shocked with the arrival of a British woman with two children in tow. The woman claims the architect had married her while stationed in England and is the father of her two children, something he claims to not remember.
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A small-town mayoral race appears to be hinged upon the backing of a most non-descript resident, the elevator operator in the local hotel. This highly coveted endorsement from the simple backwoods gentleman has many locals vying for the man's recommendation and going to some extremes to get it. A simple invention from the elevator operator's friend may change the course of this rural election.
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Burleigh Sullivan (Harold Lloyd), a timid milkman, comes to the rescue of his sister one night and gets credit for knocking out the middleweight champion. In order to save his fighter's career, the manager convinces Sullivan to appear in six fights with the final fight being against the champion, with the promise of a large sum of money for his troubles. Not being a boxer in any sense, Sullivan's fight are manipulated to have him win, thus building up his reputation and increasing the interest in the fight with the champion. Things grow more complicated when the champion falls in love with Sullivan's sister and Sullivan discovers that his first fights were "fixed."
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A struggling tire salesman meets and falls in love with a wealthy Manhattan debutante, with the feelings being mutual. In spite of misgivings from her family, the couple marries and begins their life together, though the bride has some concerns about their finances. When a tire shipment is hijacked, the husband falls under suspicion of the crime and must try to prove his innocence and calm his new wife.
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A divorced Washington D.C. socialite is distraught when her boyfriend, a Colonel in the Army, is stationed over in Paris. Hoping to reunite with her boyfriend, the woman joins the WACs, with the hopes that her capital connections will get her stationed over in Paris. Unbeknownst to her, her ex-husband is working for the Army and gets wind of her plans, so he sabotages her plans and has her assigned with a regular WACs outfit assigned to test equipment.
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A young woman traveling towards Niagara Falls has a flat tire and a traveling salesman stops to help her. The woman desperately wants to get married and have kids, while the salesman enjoys his bachelor life so. An Oklahoma oilman and his new bride arrive on the scene.
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A newspaper reporter is relegated to the obituary column after his involvement in a fraud case. With the hopes of getting back in good graces with his editor, the reporter convinces him to let him report on a woman dying of radium poisoning and take her on a tour of New York City, making her a media darling. Unfortunately, the woman is not dying which complicates things between the reporter and his editor, especially when the reporter falls in love with the woman.
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A married couple plan to move to California, to be closer to the wife's mother and brother, and intend to buy a nut farm. Unfortunately, the wife ends up becoming the victim of a group of con artists using a movie-making scheme to get her money. The woman's brother, an aspiring actor, learns of the scheme and set out to save his sister's money and their plans for the farm.
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The story centers on Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin), the son of a boxing champion who abandoned his family once achieving fame. Joe was raised by his mother on a farm and far away from the loose lifestyle his father has taken up. Discovered by fight manager Knobby Walsh (Jimmy Durante), Joe is signed to fight the Champ as an easy opponent for Al McSwatt (William Cagney). Joe beats the champion when McSwatt shows up for the fight drunk and wins over McSwatt's girlfriend. Joe takes up the lifestyle his father once did, due to the influence of his new girlfriend, and wins more fights due to set-ups by Knobby. Joe ends up facing reality when a rematch fight with McSwatt is signed. This film was based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher.
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This hilarious romp features a mischievous young man and his gang of fellow rascals, bouncing from one crazy adventure to another. Our young star's plans to win the camp cup appear to be dashed when his parents forbid him from attending camp. After his parents give in and allow him to head for camp he and his pals make an unexpected stop at a traveling circus, where they end up causing all kinds of trouble.
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This Oscar-nominated comedy stars Betty Hutton as Pearl White, a garment factory worker who ends up getting a chance at stardom. After appearing in a stage show, Pearl is able to gain employment with a silent film company, becoming a successful star of the silver screen. Unfortunately, fame comes with a heavy price and Pearl suffers for it.
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A woman down on her luck and looking at being evicted plans to solve her financial problems by marrying a rich man. Using the help of her best friend and a headwaiter in a restaurant at a fancy New York hotel, the woman hopes to win the affections of a rich gentleman staying at the hotel. Things don't quite go as planned for the young woman when the millionaire's friend becomes involved.
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Two rival newspaper reporters find themselves vying for the same story and the same woman. The men stumble onto a story about some airborne smugglers who happen to have a remarkable plane that can be flown via remote control. Our reporters not only struggle with this difficult story but they must try to win over the heart of a woman.
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Stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope team up again for their sixth adventure together, this time as two American vaudevillians performing in Australia. When the prospects of a double shotgun wedding looms on the horizon, our pair quickly sign up as deep-sea divers and head off to Bali. Our boys meet and both fall in love with the same girl, Princess Lalah (Dorothy Lamour), and when scoundrels decide to usurp her throne, the boys lend a hand in helping out.
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Three small-time confidence men pull a scam that unfortunately brings out the police in full force to track them down. Finding themselves in a mission down in the Bowery, the three men quickly disguise themselves as priests and begin the charade of tending to the poor, in order to fool the authorities. While the trio may look the part, they initially keep their old habits until circumstances make the men begin to change their ways and outlook toward life.
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Two Navy Men vie for the affections of the same woman, as well as drive their superiors crazy with their outrageous antics. Their mutual interest in the woman causes a strain in the friendship both on and off the base. When an incident with a target ship places one of the men in danger, the truth about their friendship comes to light.
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A recently deceased playboy is awarded one final request before gaining his heavenly reward. Before he passed away, the playboy had sent letters to his three card-playing friends stating he had affairs with their wives. The departed man wishes to see what happens to the couples after the three men read the letters.
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A young man and woman wish to marry but are financially unable to do it. Through a series of misunderstandings and unfortunate incidents, the young man ends up becoming engaged to three women, including a wealthy man's daughter and a mobster's sister. Our young groom-to-be hopes to clear everything up in time to wed his true love, before anything else can happen to them.
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A widow and her daughter are faced with a foreclosure when their mortgage holder passes away and the heir appears to be interested in their home. When the daughter meets the heir, she and the young man fall in love with each other. It turns out the heir's lawyer is the real reason behind the foreclosure and he's not only set his sights on the home but the daughter as well.
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Two American gangsters find themselves in some trouble and end up joining the French Foreign Legion to hide out from those interested in finding them. Getting stationed in Morocco, the pair of criminals spends plenty of time butting heads with their superiors and staying in the stockade. When the opportunity arises to use their skills learned in the mob to take on an enemy garrison, the gangsters get to prove their true worth.
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The Caribbean island of Hondo-Rico is in the middle of an attempted coup with a revolutionary leader looking to take over the government. The leader of the coup kidnaps the Prime Minister's daughter in the hopes of forcing him to surrender. Entering to the fray is a bevy of beautiful women, driving into the jungle on jeeps loaded up with good food and drink, hoping to stop the coup before it can be completed.
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