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FILM CLASSICS

FILM CLASSICS

Get a front row seat to some of Hollywood’s finest flicks in the comfort of your own living room. The is the best in the “Golden Age” of Hollywood films.

FILM CLASSICS is a local public television program presented by WLRN

The Brain that Wouldn't Die

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A scientist experiments with questionable techniques to keep his girlfriend alive (1h 22m 33s)

Plan 9 From Outer Space

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Evil aliens attack Earth, resurrect the dead and put the living in peril (1h 18m 15s)

The Strange Woman

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An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life. (1h 40m 8s)

The Mark of the Hawk

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A man struggles with the increasingly hostile forces in a colonial African country. (1h 24m 27s)

Father's Little Dividend

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A doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child. (1h 21m 8s)

Blood on the Sun

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A journalist in Tokyo fights to report honestly on growing tensions before WWII. (1h 33m 45s)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

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Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love. (1h 51m 21s)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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As a hunter fights a deadly jungle fever, he remembers his lost loves. (1h 53m 39s)

Scrooge

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A miser faces the ghosts of his past on Christmas Eve. (1h 17m 43s)

Royal Wedding

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A musical team finds romance when they tour London to find Elizabeth II's wedding. (1h 32m 56s)

Rage at Dawn

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The Reno brothers gang uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven. (1h 26m 49s)

Penny Serenade

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A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child. (1h 59m 48s)

Our Town

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Small town lovers search for happiness. (1h 29m 40s)

Night of the Living Dead

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A space probe unleashes microbes that turn the dead into flesh-eating zombies. (1h 35m 51s)

Meet John Doe

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A reporter's fraudulent story turns a homeless man into a national hero. (2h 2m 21s)

Jane Eyre

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A governess at a remote estate falls in love with her brooding employer. (1h 39m 1s)

The Jackie Robinson Story

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Jackie Robinson plays himself as the man who broke MLB’s color barrier. (1h 16m 58s)

The Inspector General

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A perpetual student is mistaken for a government official in a small European village. (1h 41m 56s)

House on Haunted Hill

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A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house. (1h 14m 15s)

Go For Broke!

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The true story of World War II's all Japanese-American unit. (1h 30m 38s)

Beat The Devil

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A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine. (1h 29m 20s)

At War with the Army

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A song-and-dance team have trouble adjusting to Army life. (1h 28m 40s)

Anna Karenina

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A classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love. (1h 51m 41s)

A Walk In The Sun

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During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers captures an Italian farmhouse. (1h 56m 55s)

Three Came Home

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A woman fights to survive as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. (1h 45m 6s)

Suddenly

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In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap a family and plot to kill the president. (1h 16m 46s)

The Story of G.I. Joe

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An American journalist goes abroad to write about brave soldiers in the US Army. (1h 47m 59s)

My Man Godfrey

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A Fifth Avenue socialite needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt. (1h 33m 12s)

The Last Time I Saw Paris

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A writer returns to Paris to reminisce about his life and gain custody of his daughter. (1h 51m 11s)

The Big Lift

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Two Air Force sergeants fall in love with local women during the 1948 Berlin Airlift. (1h 57m 48s)

My Dear Secretary

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A romance novelist appoints a would-be writer as his secretary and they fall in love. (1h 34m 34s)

Life With Father

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A financier from New York rules his family with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper. (1h 57m 30s)

His Girl Friday

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A newspaper editor uses every trick to keep his reporter ex-wife from remarrying. (1h 31m 57s)

Angel on My Shoulder

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A deceased gangster makes a deal with the devil to return to earth. (1h 41m 18s)

And Then There Were None

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Ten strangers are invited to an island by a mysterious host and are murdered. (1h 37m 5s)

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