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Hopeful Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Steel Against the Sky
1941 · Adventure
The Gene Krupa Story
1959 · Drama
Very Important Person
1961 · War
Don’t Panic Chaps!
1959 · War
Cash McCall
1960 · Drama
Vigil in the Night
1940 · Drama
Passage to Marseille
1944 · Adventure
Lord Jeff
1938 · Crime
Island of the Blue Dolphins
1964 · Family
The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931 · Drama
The Weak and the Wicked
1954 · Drama
Tawny Pipit
1944 · Drama
The Bells of St. Mary’s
1945 · Comedy
Arizona
1940 · Western
Anything Can Happen
1952 · Comedy
The Train Goes East
1948 · Romance
Annie Oakley
1935 · Drama
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945 · Drama
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Music
Hercules
1958 · Adventure
Those Calloways
1964 · Family
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · Drama
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964 · Comedy
The Red Detachment of Women
1961 · Drama
Last of the Renegades
1964 · Adventure
Santa Fe Passage
1955 · Western
My Six Loves
1963 · Comedy
The Female Prince
1964 · Music
Follow the Sun
1951 · Drama
The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · Drama
Innocent Sinners
1958 · Drama
Sorrowful Jones
1949 · Comedy
Captain Fracasse
1961 · Adventure
The Homestretch
1947 · Drama
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Drama
Flight Angels
1940 · Drama
The Eddie Cantor Story
1953 · Drama
Magnificent Obsession
1935 · Romance
We’ll Meet Again
1943 · Drama
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
1957 · Romance
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