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God’s Country

Louis Malle
1985 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline.

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. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness

Louis Malle
1986 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

In 1986, Louis Malle set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles.

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The Baron of Arizona

Samuel Fuller
1950 • 97 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Vincent Price portrays legendary swindler James Addison Reavis, who in 1880 concocted an elaborate hoax to name himself the “Baron” of Arizona, and therefore inherit all the land in the state. Samuel Fuller adapts this tall tale to film with fleet, elegant storytelling and a sly sense of humor.

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The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller
1951 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of Samuel Fuller’s most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war, as well as a reflection of Fuller’s irreducible social conscience.

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The Love Parade

Ernst Lubitsch
1929 • 109 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

The Love Parade made stars out of toast-of-Paris Maurice Chevalier and girl-from-Philly Jeanette MacDonald, cast as a womanizing military attaché and the man-hungry queen of “Sylvania.” With its naughty innuendo and satiric romance, it opened the door for a decade of battles of the sexes.

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Monte Carlo

Ernst Lubitsch
1930 • 90 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Jeanette MacDonald’s independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. Lubitsch’s follow-up to The Love Parade shows even more musical invention, and presents MacDonald at her sexily haughty best

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The Smiling Lieutenant

Ernst Lubitsch
1931 • 89 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Maurice Chevalier’s randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert’s freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of the fictional kingdom of Flausenthurm, played by newcomer Miriam Hopkins, sets her sights on him.

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One Hour with You

Ernst Lubitsch
1932 • 78 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong.

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Mr. Freedom

William Klein
1969 • 92 minutes • 1.66:1 • France
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol’-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man.

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

Alexander Korda
1933 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Charles Laughton gulps beer and chomps on mutton, in his first of many iconic screen roles, as King Henry VIII, the ultimate anti-husband. Alexander Korda’s first major international success is a raucous, entertaining, even poignant peek into the boudoirs of the infamous king and his six wives.

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The Rise of Catherine the Great

Paul Czinner
1934 • 95 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
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A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of Russia.

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The Private Life of Don Juan

Alexander Korda
1934 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. makes his big-screen swan song with Korda’s deliciously satiric deflation of the Don Juan myth. After having faked his own death and escaped Seville, the aging lothario returns, only to find that he has been forgotten; perhaps Merle Oberon’s beauty can coax him back.

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Rembrandt

Alexander Korda
1936 • 85 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Beginning when Rembrandt’s reputation was at its height, the film then tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression.

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Major Barbara

Gabriel Pascal
1941 • 121 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Wendy Hiller plays one of George Bernard Shaw’s most memorable and controversial characters, Barbara Undershaft, a Salvation Army officer who speaks out against the hypocrisy she believes exists in her Christian charity organization.

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Caesar and Cleopatra

Gabriel Pascal
1945 • 128 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Edition: Collector’s Sets

Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains pop off the screen in vivid Technicolor in Gabriel Pascal’s version of Shaw’s 1901 play about love and politics in ancient Rome and Egypt.

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Androcles and the Lion

Chester Erskine
1952 • 98 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Editions: Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values.

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