The Time of Your Life
based on William Saroyan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, unfolds in a San Francisco waterfront bar where a group of colorful patrons reveals their stories, dreams, and struggles. James Cagney stars as Joe, a laid-back philosopher encouraging others to live fully. This heartwarming and witty drama celebrates the beauty of human connections amidst life’s complexities.
Episodes
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Topper Returns (1941)
S2023 E121 - 1h 28m
Stuffy banker turned ghost whisperer Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is tormented by another mischievous spirit. This time it's a beautiful girl, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, the intended victim. With Topper's help, the pretty ghost sets out to find her killer with hilarious results.
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My Favorite Brunette (1947)
S2023 E129 - 1h 27m
Bob Hope is a baby photographer who is mistaken for a detective by a beautiful baroness (Dorothy Lamour). The fake gumshoe is soon in all kinds of trouble in this comedic film noir parody that co-stars Alan Ladd, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr.
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Road to Bali (1952)
S2023 E64 - 1h 30m
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby star as two song-and-dance men that escape marriage by signing on as deep-sea divers headed to the island of Bali, where they attract the attention of Princess Lala.
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Never Wave at a WAC (1952)
S2023 E86 - 1h 26m
Rosalind Russell is a divorced socialite and politician’s daughter who joins the Women’s Army Corps to be closer to her boyfriend, a colonel. Expecting to be made an officer because of her father’s standing, she learns that she has to tough it out as an ordinary private.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
S2023 E145 - 1h 33m
Acclaimed actor Charles Laughton won his only Best Acting Oscar for his performance as the English king who was married six times without producing the male heir he desired most.
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Jamaica Inn (1939)
S2023 E28 - 1h 29m
Orphan Mary (Maureen O'Hara, in her first lead role) moves in with her aunt and uncle who run the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall. Mary soon discovers a secret band of smugglers, but can she trust the town’s mysterious magistrate (Charles Laughton) to help her escape?
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Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
S2023 E42 - 1h 52m
Cyrano (Jose Ferrer in an Oscar-winning performance) is admired by his men for his courage, swordsmanship and mighty wit but he is hopelessly lost in love and unable to profess his feelings to the beautiful Roxane out of fear he will be rejected because of his appearance.
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Abilene Town (1946)
S2023 E143 - 1h 29m
A fearless lawman (Randolph Scott) stands between unruly cattlemen and a group of determined homesteaders as the two factions vie for control of the government land bordering the town.
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Rage at Dawn (1955)
S2023 E35 - 1h 25m
Based on true events, special agent from Chicago (Randolph Scott) is sent to infiltrate the notorious Reno Brothers gang as they terrorize Indiana in 1866. Complications develop in the form of conflicted feelings that the agent has with the Reno sister.
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The Outlaw (1943)
S2023 E105 - 1h 55m
Jane Russell stirs up trouble as the center of attention of Sheriff Pat Garrett, his gunslinger friend Doc Holliday and outlaw Billy the Kid in this Western directed by Howard Hughes.
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Kansas Pacific (1953)
S2023 E142 - 1h 12m
In the days before the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends an engineer (Sterling Hayden) to finish the railroad before the fighting starts. Confederate sympathizers, led by William Quantrill, try to stop the railway from being completed.
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The Big Trees (1952)
S2023 E124 - 1h 29m
Businessman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. A nearby Quaker colony is very protective of the giant sequoias, and the greedy timber man soon realizes that this won’t be an easy task.
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