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Appendix 1: Synopses of films

^,A selfish beauty finally turns to her discarded dull husband;
when he is blind he doesn't mind her faded looks.' Halliwell
1987.

Oklahoma

Fred Zinneman, Rodgers and Hammerstein, US 1955.

Gordon Macrae; Shirley Jones; Rod Steiger; Gloria Grahame.

Musical story of the mid-west. 'A cowboy wins his girl despite
the intervention of a hired hand.' Halliwell 1987.

Old Acquaintance

Vincent Sherman, Warner, US 1943.

Bette Davis; Miriam Hopkins; Gig Young; John Loder; Dolores
Moran.

'Two jealous lady novelists interfere in each other's love lives.
A dated but rather splendid battle of the wild cats, with two
stars fighting their way through a plush production and a rather
overlong script.' Halliwell 1987.

On The Waterfront

Elia Kazan, Columbia, US 1954.

Marlon Brando; Eve Marie Saint; Lee J Cobb; Rod Steiger; Karl
Malden.

Set among the dockers of New York, the film chronicles the
struggle of Terry Mulloy (Brando), the young brother of a corrupt
union official, to recognise his awakening conscience and lead
the dockers in defence of the union. He is encouraged by Edie
Doyle (Saint) and the local priest (Malden).

Passport to Pimlico

Henry Cornelius, Ealing, UK 1949.

Stanley Holloway; Margaret Rutherford; Basil Radford; Naunton
wayne; Hermione Baddely; Jane Hylton; Betty Warren; Sidney
Tafler.

Children playing on a bomb site find an ancient document which
shows that Pimlico was owned by the Burgundian crown and is thus
a part of France. The consequences are developed in a comic

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