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Duck, You Sucker!

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Duck, You Sucker (1971)

PG 157 min - Western - 20 October 1971
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At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Director:  Sergio Leone
Writers:  Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone
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The Hurricane

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The Specialist

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The Specialist (1994)

110 min - Action, Thriller - 7 October 1994
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May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

Director:  Luis Llosa
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The Longest Day

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The Longest Day (1962)

178 min - War, Action, Drama - 25 September 1962
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

Writers:  David Pursall, Jack Seddon, James Jones, Romain Gary
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Lion of the Desert

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Lion of the Desert (1981)

173 min - Action, History, War - 17 April 1981
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This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Director:  Moustapha Akkad
Writers:  H.A.L. Craig, David Butler
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Doctor Zhivago

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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

200 min - Drama, Romance, War - 22 December 1965
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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Director:  David Lean
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