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Macbeth

Each step in Macbeth's bloody ascent to the throne of Scotland brings him closer to his doom.

Pygmalion

A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.

American pastime

Japanese-American families turned to baseball as a way to handle their plight and find the strength to stand up for themselves in the days and months following Pearl Harbor.

Alfred Hitchcock presents

Contains all thirty-nine episodes of the second season of the murder mystery television series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents, " which feature such guest stars as Jessica Tandy, Rip Torn, Vic Morrow, and Hume Cronyn.

Three sovereigns for Sarah

A fact-based drama about a woman accused of witchcraft in 1692 Salem who survives imprisonment and ten years later attempts to establish both her innocence and that of her two sisters who had been hanged as witches.

Arsenic and old lace

Mortimer Brewster is appalled when he learns that his charming little old aunts have been poisoning their elderly gentlemen boarders in what they believe is an act of kindness, and burying them in the cellar with the help of another nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt.

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the silk stockings

Holmes and Watson investigate the connection between the death of a penniless shop girl and a debutante.

The island

Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a utopian facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island." But Lincoln soon realizes that everything about his existence is a lie. He discovers that all of the inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the evil facility that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives.

Nicholas Nickleby

Upon the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby, a young gentleman in nineteenth-century England, must overcome great obstacles to achieve happiness for himself and his family.

Great expectations

Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman, courtesy of an unknown benefactor.

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