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Viva, Zapata!
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On The Waterfront
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Marty
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Gervaise
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The Defiant Ones
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Some Like It Hot
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Through The Years

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    In The Heat Of The Night
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    Chimes At Midnight
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    The Hustler
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    The Best Of Enemies
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    Judgment At Nuremberg
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    Judgment At Nuremberg
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    The Apartment
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    Spencer Tracy

    Inherit The Wind
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    Let's Make Love
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    Fredric March

    Inherit The Wind
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    Elmer Gantry
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    Crime And Punishment USA
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    Some Like It Hot
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    Anatomy Of A Murder
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    Takashi Shimura

    Living (Ikiru)
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    Jean Gabin

    Maigret Sets A Trap (Maigret Tend Un Piège)
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    Jean Desailly

    Maigret Sets A Trap (Maigret Tend Un Piège)
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    Ashes And Diamonds (Popiól I Diament)
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    The Defiant Ones
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    The Last Hurrah
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    Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)
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    Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
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    Witness For The Prosecution
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    The Enemy Below/The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness
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    The Sheepman
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    The Defiant Ones
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    The Young Lions
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    Twelve Angry Men
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    Ed Wynn

    The Great Man
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    A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
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    Robert Mitchum

    Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
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    Jean Gabin

    Pig Across Paris (La Traversée De Paris)
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    The Sweet Smell of Success
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    Pierre Brasseur

    The Gates Of Paris (Porte Des Lilas)
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    Time Limit
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    Gervaise
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    Spencer Tracy

    The Mountain
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    The Man With The Golden Arm
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    Karl Malden

    Baby Doll
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    William Holden

    Picnic
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    Pierre Fresnay

    The Unfrocked One (Le Défroqué)
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    James Dean

    Rebel Without A Cause
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    Gunnar Björnstrand

    Smiles Of A Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende)
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    Ernest Borgnine

    Marty
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    Not as a Stranger
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    Seven Samurai (Shichinin No Samurai)
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    Toshiro Mifune

    Seven Samurai (Shichinin No Samurai)
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    Mister Roberts
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    East Of Eden
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    On The Waterfront
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    The Glenn Miller Story
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    Executive Suite
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    The Caine Mutiny
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    Riot In Cell Block 11
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    The Actress
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    Roman Holiday
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    Marcel Mouloudji

    We Are All Murderers (Nous Sommes Tous Des Assassins)
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    Claude Laydu

    Diary Of A Country Priest (Journal D'Un Curé De Campagne)
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    Van Heflin

    Shane
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    Eddie Albert

    Roman Holiday
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    Viva, Zapata!
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    Fredric March

    Death Of A Salesman
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    Miracle in Milan (Miracolo A Milano)
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    God Needs Men (Dieu A Besoin Des Hommes)
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    Humphrey Bogart

    The African Queen
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