Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?

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A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Crime and Thriller
  • Rating: 7.7
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Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Western
  • Rating: 7.7
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When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Genre: Crime, Adventure, Comedy and Drama
  • Rating: 7.8
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During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama
  • Rating: 7.3
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A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama, Crime and Thriller
  • Rating: 6.3
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The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama and Adventure
  • Rating: 6.4
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A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Adventure and Action
  • Rating: 5.5
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Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Romance and Comedy
  • Rating: 6.2
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A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Thriller, Mystery and Crime
  • Rating: 6
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Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: Germany
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Rating: 7.1
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Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National Lottery , to avoid marital trouble his friend Viala, which is the real winner with his mistress Ginette . Millionaire become false as false Ginette lover until one day.
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  • Year: 1948
  • Country: France
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Rating: 5.8

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The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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  • Year: 1956
  • Country: USA and Italy
  • Genre: War, History, Drama and Romance
  • Rating: 6.7
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A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
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  • Year: 1952
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Romance and Drama
  • Rating: 6.6