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One Body Too Many -- An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.

Ex-Golden Gloves fighter Danny Kenny has it all worked out. He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live: New York. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under Danny when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. James Cagney plays Danny in this heart-tugging melodrama co-starring Ann Sheridan, Anthony Quinn, film-debuting Arthur Kennedy and in a rare acting turn before becoming a director, Elia Kazan. Among familiar studio players, there's an unbilled one: a vivid backlot and rear-screen Manhattan. "Sometimes we wonder," The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote, "whether it wasn't really the Warner brothers who got New York from the Indians, so diligent and devoted have they been in feeling the great city's pulse."

The story of a peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, a poverty-stricken, pure hearted adolescent, who saw a vision, of a "Beautiful Lady" near her home town of Lourdes in 1858. The wondrous news spreads rapidly throughout France, leaving in its wake a variety of consequences: adoration, suspicion and greed among the people of Lourdes skepticism from the town doctor (Lee J. Cobb) charges of insanity from the town prosecutor (Vincent Price) threats of physical punishment, then support and guidance from the Dean of Lourdes (Charles Bickford), who finally becomes convinced that the miracle has, indeed, taken place. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Actress and Best Score, this true story is both first-rate filmmaking and an inspiring tribute to faith, courage and the human spirit.

A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader (Carl Esmond) dies, his widow Gabrielle (Susan Hayward) marries his brother (Jacques Bergerac) in accordance with Basque tradition. But it's a loveless union; Gabrielle is smitten with Lon Bennett (Jeff Chandler), the scout who's been hired to guide them on their journey.

With the power-hungry Duc de Lavalle threatening to usurp the throne, the queen summons the Four Musketeers to come to her aid. But too many years have passed so their grown children decide to fight for their fathers instead.

Jean Renoir received a Best Director Oscar nod for this adaptation of George Sessions Perry's story about Sam (Zachary Scott), a tired Texan sharecropper who turns his energies to cultivating his own cotton crop. But Sam faces bitter odds as he struggles to build a better life for himself and his family in this rural take on the American Dream. A critical hit, The Southerner won Best Film at the 1946 Venice Film Festival.

A cotton picker tries to make a better life for his family and tries to farm the cotton instead. They are unlucky and the crop is diseased and then there is a flood.

An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.

An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford's will won't be read until he is properly entombed and the heirs are forced to stay on the premises or be denied their inheritance.

One Body Too Many -- An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.