Sydney Greenstreet

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1) Casablanca

Pub. Date

[2012]

Description

The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.

2) The Maltese Falcon

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A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why, and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. Special features included.

3) Christmas in Connecticut

Pub. Date

1945.

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Columnist Elizabeth Lane's (Barbara Stanwyck) publisher, Sydney Greenstreet, invites himself and a handsome war hero to Stanwyck's fictitious Connecticut home for Christmas. Stanwyck quickly rounds up a cottage, husband, baby and cook before the guests arrive, but real trouble begins when 'married' Stanwyck begins to fall in love with engaged navy man Jones.

4) The Maltese falcon

Pub. Date

[1941]

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Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.

5) The Maltese falcon

Pub. Date

[2000]

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After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.

6) They Died with Their Boots On

Pub. Date

2005

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A rip-roaring account of General George Custer, beginning with his induction into West Point up through the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

7) Background to danger: read, watch, listen pack

Author

Ambler, Eric

Series

Read Watch Listen Packs

Pub. Date

1937, 1965

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Book summary: Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics, and his quick judgment. Where his judgment sometimes failed him was in his personal life. When he finds himself on a train bound for Austria with insufficient funds after a bad night of gambling, he jumps at the chance to earn a fee to help a refugee smuggle securities across the border. He soon discovers that the documents he...

8) Greatest Classic Films Collection: Holiday

Series

Turner classic movies

Pub. Date

[2009]

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A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future. Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas. It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...