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The Dream Merchants (1980)

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Directed by
Vincent Sherman
Genre
drama television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man starts working in a nickelodeon theater and builds a movie empire during the silent film era, up to the arrival of sound films in the late 1920s.

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What happens

The Dream Merchants is a 1980 television miniseries based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Harold Robbins and directed by Vincent Sherman. The Dream Merchants tells the rags to riches story of a young man (Mark Harmon) who starts his career working in a nickelodeon theatre and builds a movie empire during the silent film era until the advent of sound films in the late 1920s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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