This early feminist tale was a box-office flop that was released after years of script doctoring. Producer Samuel Goldwyn...
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1937
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With the considerable input of ex-Navy officer Frank Wead (who wrote the script) and technical adviser Cmdr. G. W. D....
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1937
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Start Cheering is Columbia Pictures' idea of a college musical: Practically everyone in the cast is past the age of 30....
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1938
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Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is...
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"Doc" Finney
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1939
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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Lieutenant Larson
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1939
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1939
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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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Eddie Krator
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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Randall
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1939
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1939
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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Edward Patrick "Little Ned"
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1940
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The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly...
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Russell Sampson
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1940
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Universal Studios had their "B" musicals down to a science in the 1940s. All that was needed was a cast of talented...
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Sonny McGann
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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Mace Townsley
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1940
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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Bob Dalton
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1940
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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Swanee
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1940
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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Hubert Smith
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1941
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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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Chuck
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1941
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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Bob Holliday
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1941
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This comedy-drama is adapted from a story by Damon Runyon and centers on a mobster with unusually large feet. The trouble...
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Speedy Miller
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1941
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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Jug Martin
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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John Thorn
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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Dude McNair
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1942
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In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no small accomplishment),...
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Steve Crandall
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1942
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1942
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Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline....
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Henry Clay Jackson
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1942
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Aloysius "Butch" Grogan
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1942
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With an ingenious script by Roy Chanslor, this modest, but imaginative film noir is notable for the strong performance by...
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Capt. Flood
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1946
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The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane...
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Louis Prentice
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1946
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Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing...
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Ernie Hicks
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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Chips Jackson
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1947
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In this wartime drama, an American officer is accused of secretly working as an SS man. Though all evidence is against the...
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Capt. Kinsella
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1948
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After turning down several other Hollywood producers, playwright William Saroyan sold the film rights of his whimsical...
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Policeman
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1948
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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Shawn
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1949
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Philip Yordan's stage hit Anna Lucasta posed two problems to Hollywood in 1949. For one thing, the story concerned a...
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Frank
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1949
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A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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Mr. Botts
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1949
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career...
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Willie Stark
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1949
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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Morgan
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1949
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George Knowland
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1950
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Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by...
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Harry Brock
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1950
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Oscar or no Oscar, Broderick Crawford was obliged to star in whatever property his home studio Columbia threw his way. In...
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Johnny Phelan
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1950
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Thomas Craden
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1951
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Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on...
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Johnny Damico
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1951
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Mark Chapman
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1952
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Remy Marko
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1952
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Sgt. Matt Trainor
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1952
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Sheriff Frazier
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1953
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"You've never SEEN Gregory Peck until you've seen him in CINEMASCOPE." So read the publicity hype for 20th Century-Fox's...
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Leatherby
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1954
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Carl Buckley
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1954
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Coadapted by The Gordons from their novel Case File FBI, Down Three Dark Streets stars Broderick Crawford as a no-nonsense...
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Ripley
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1954
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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Charlie Lupo
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1955
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Ambitious but impecunious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) marries the older and (in this film, at least) not...
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Dr. Aarons, Medical Professor
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1955
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In this violent, gripping drama, a ruthless criminal kidnaps a little boy and takes him into the Colorado wilderness where,...
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Rollo Lamar
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1955
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Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini....
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Augusto
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1955
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Robert Wagner stars as insensitive Southern landowner who gets a much-overdue dose of humility and democracy when he's...
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Waco
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1956
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In this western, a pacifistic store owner does all he can to avoid association with his father, a notorious gunfighter. One...
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Vinnie Harold
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1956
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In this sea-going suspense drama, Edwin Rumill (James Mason) is the former first mate of an ocean liner who leaps at the...
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Henry Scott
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1958
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1959
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On the heels of muscleman Steve Reeves' low-budget Italian sword and sandal epics comes this unintentionally hilarious...
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King Eurystheus
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1960
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This engaging World War II drama is a joint American-Yugoslav effort and although set in a Yugoslav town, the actual incident...
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1961
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Even into the 1960s, Yugoslavian films played up the contributions of their partisan underground during World War II. Square...
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Dr. Stefan Bernardi
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1961
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In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father has been murdered by King...
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1961
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Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks...
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1962
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Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter"...
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1963
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This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the...
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1964
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It's likely that the 60-minute pilot Brilliant Benjamin Boggs had been gathering dust on the shelf for nearly two years...
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1964
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This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells...
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1965
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Broderick Crawford spent a lot of his time in the 1960s appearing in Spanish-filmed westerns, presumably to avoid the...
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1965
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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1966
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Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this western, filmed on location in Spain, chronicles the quest of an ex-con to locate a...
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Joe Harbin
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1966
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In this western, a former lawman forces a corrupt outlaw to relinquish his hold upon an innocent town. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Luke Starr
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1966
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In this routine western, Captain Tom York (Howard Keel) tries to warn the residents of Deadwood of an impending Sioux Indian...
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Columbus Smith
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1967
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All available information indicates that Manutara was a working title for the infamous horror-rama The Vulture....
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1967
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Also released under the title Manutara, this sci-fi film features scientist Professor Koniglich (Akim Tamiroff) as he...
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Brian Stroud
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1967
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After destroying a religious statue, the janitor comes across a girl who look remarkably like the statue. (AKA Gregorio) ~...
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1968
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So far as the authorities are concerned, Ironside's artist friend Danny Fielder (William Burns) died just after confessing to...
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1969
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Power originated as an episode of the weekly, 90-minute TV adventure series Name of the Game. Robert Stack, in his usual role...
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1969
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1970
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Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark...
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1970
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This TV movie proposes that at some future date, America will be at loggerheads against some unnamed Asiatic power. Realizing...
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1970
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In this crime drama, set in and around the Grand Canyon, a million-dollar kidnapping scheme is enacted. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1970
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A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a...
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1971
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In this Hong Kong-set spoof of Asian spy movies, a CIA agent is assigned to return a purloined set of plans for a...
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1971
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A large city mayor slowly begins to recognize the depth of the syndicate's involvement in highway and housing construction...
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1971
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A priceless religious relic is transported from Mexico to LA under armed guard. As an added precaution, the case which...
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1972
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In this spy thriller, Gorenko (Max Von Sydow) is on the run from his Russian spymasters, and wants to defect. The Americans...
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1972
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1972
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Created for the "dime novels" in 1886, scientific detective Nick Carter has been transferred to film and radio several times...
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Otis Duncan
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1972
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Murder abounds at a wax museum after the owner decides to sell it, and seemingly waxen figures come alive. By the way, are...
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1973
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In this thriller, an enigmatic phantom lives in the dank tunnels running beneath the ramshackle back lot of a former movie...
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1974
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Lynn (Barbara Benton) is the 19 year old girl who leaves her repressive parent's home in search of a matrimonial prospect....
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Oil Maqgnate
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1974
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet is a regulation crisis-in-the-air TV movie distinguished by the accomplished direction of Robert...
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1976
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This sequel to the smash hit chiller Rosemary's Baby (1968) chronicles the childhood of Rosemary's demon spawn. The still...
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1976
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In this drama, an international crisis is spawned after a young American man is killed in Tokyo. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1977
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1977
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Host
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1977
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J. Edgar Hoover
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1977
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A nuclear-powered transcontinental train provides the setting for this television pilot from the mystery series Supertrain....
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1979
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The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman...
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1979
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Harlequin is directed by Simon Wincer and tells a tale with echoes in 20th-century Russian history. Nick and Sandra Rast...
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Doc Wheelan
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1980
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Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter...
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1980
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Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars...
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1980
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Harry Werner (Frank Gorshin) is a ruthless hired assassin who leaves San Francisco after one killing, to go to Vienna and...
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Mike Carraday
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1982
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Against the wishes of both families, a poor boy (Matt Dillon) and a wealthy banker's daughter (Cindy Fisher) elope, only to...
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1982
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Broderick Crawford hosts this look at the personal lives and underworld dealings of some of America's most notorious...
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1984
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This biographical documentary focuses on the criminal activities of several of the most notorious American criminals. The...
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1986
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