Films with: Peck, Gregory

Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound

Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum. The bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love.

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Boys from Brazil

A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele.

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Cape Fear

An ex-con is determined to wreak bloody revenge on the small-town lawyer who helped send him to jail.

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Duel in the sun

The hot-blooded son of a Texas land baron and his clear headed, calm brother become rivals when they meet a beautiful half-breed Indian girl who comes to live on their ranch.

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Eichmann the Nazi fugitive /

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

The legacy of the husband and wife team includes more than 100 short films that reflect the breadth and depth of interests and the integrity of their vision. Volume 6 is part of these classic films.

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

Tops: These many tops are a classic Eames toy film. IBM at the fair: Shows the brilliant Eames/Saarinen IBM Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's fair. Computer glossary: Jargon of computers expresses something of their nature. Eames lounge chair: Assembly of the famous chair at hyperwarp speed. Expanding airport: Concise history of airports leading into Eero Saarinen's Dulles Airport concept. Kepler's laws: Bread as nutrition, craft, and culture. Polyorchis Haplus: Lyrical motion of a tiny sea creature. Tops (from Stars of jazz): Rarely seen precursor to the classic "Tops."

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

Powers of ten illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901 : after 45 years of working examines the Office of Charles and Ray Eames as it is being dismantled and cleaned out.

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

Toccata for toy trains is a trip through a world of antique toys, and toy trains. House : after five years of living illustrates the home and studio designed and built by Charles Eames on a hill in California overlooking the ocean. Lucia chase vignette follows a sister chasing her brother through the Eames house and vicinity. Kaleidoscope jazz chair is a kaleidoscope tour of the Eames office and their multicolored chairs. The Black ships illustrates Admiral Perry's 1853 naval expedition to Japan through Japanese prints. In Atlas a map of the Roman Empire expands and contracts, encapsulating the ebb and flow of the Empire's history. Blacktop : a story of the washing of a school play yard focuses on the patterns and abstractions created by the soapy water.

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

The world of Franklin and Jefferson, uses the lives of Franklin and Jefferson as prisms through which to evoke colonial America.

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Films of Charles and Ray Eames.

Design Q&A: One of the most concise, witty statements about design ever put on film. IBM Mathematics Peep Shows: Brilliant, fast-paced explorations of intriguing mathematical concepts. SX-70: Lively presentation of a revolutionary Land camera. Copernicus: Rich, beautifully photographed film evoking the astronomer's universe. Fiberglass Chairs: Exciting look at the initial design and production of these famous chairs. Goods: Discussion of "the new covetables" and look at one of the Eameses' legendary 3-screen slide shows.

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Gentleman's agreement

A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

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Guns of Navarone

A specialized commando team is assembled to destroy the German Army's mighty guns of Navarone, because they control a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea.

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How the West was won

A western adventure spanning three generations, the breadth of a wild, unsettled country, and fifty of the most excitingly turbulent years of this nation's history.

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Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's agreement

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

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Man in the gray flannel suit

Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive who defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama.

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Moby Dick

Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.

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Omen

A chilling suspense mystery, this riveting tale of the supernatural explores the Biblical prophecy of the warning which will foretell the coming of Armageddon. The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil will begin with the birth of the son of Satan, in human form.

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On the beach

Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.

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Paradine case

In a suspenseful courtroom drama, a beautiful woman is accused of having murdered her husband.

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Roman holiday

A princess rebels against her royal obligations and explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love.

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Snows of Kilimanjaro

A famous writer, recovering from injuries on east Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reflects on whether any meaning can be found in his life.

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Spellbound

The famous Dr. Edwardes takes over as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum and finds himself attracted to Dr. Constance Petersen, but she soon realizes he is a paranoid amnesiac imposter and tries to cure him while finding out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.

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To kill a mockingbird

The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.

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Twelve o'clock high

The commander of a U.S. bomber unit in Britain during World War II begins to crack under the strain.

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Yellow sky

A band of robbers are running from the law, and they find an almost abandoned town. An old prosecutor and his granddaughter have been living there. Realizing that they have gold, the robbers have a plan of taking it, but one robber turns against them.

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