The strange life and the wonderfully awful films of 1950's Hollywood Z movie director Ed Wood are profiled in this...
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1995
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Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual...
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1994
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Jerry Orbach makes a return appearance as Boston private eye Harry McGraw. Deep in Kentucky Horse Country, Harry investigates...
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1991
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This sequel to New World Pictures' surprise horror hit bears little connection with its predecessor apart from the...
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1987
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is appointed foreman of the jury in an apparently "open and shut" murder trial. The accused claims...
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1986
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Cult favorite Gregory Walcott (Plan Nine from Outer Space) appears in this episode as Big Jake, the father of waitress Jolene...
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1984
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While visiting her cousin Abby (Lynn Redgrave) at lavish Langley Manor in the deep South, Jessica is among those present when...
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1984
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Jan Clayton, best known to TV aficionados as the first "mom" on Lassie, is here cast as widow Lucinda Meadows, an old flame...
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1981
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The autobiography of Harold Krent, Butterflies Are Free, is the basis for this made-for-television drama about a blind...
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1980
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Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of...
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1979
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Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a...
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1978
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After getting caught cheating his bookmaking boss over a high-stakes pinball wager, Neil Gallagher (Ken Marshall) leaves his...
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1978
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This made-for-TV movie relates the true story of the infamous Donner Party, the group of unlucky pioneers who were stranded...
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1978
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1976
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At last year's annual baseball game with the Sleepy Eye Greenstockings, the Walnut Grove team lost 36 to nothing. Determined...
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1975
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Clint Eastwood both directed and starred in this thriller based on a novel by Trevanian. Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood) is a...
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1975
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The body of a murdered bookkeeper is found in a cheap motel, and a prostitute and her procurer are accused of the crime....
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1975
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Based on an actual incident, Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature follows the adventures of a Texas outlaw couple...
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Officer Mashburn
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1974
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As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet...
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1974
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1973
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A bookish Boston slicker tries his hand at cowpunching on his father's ranch in this violent but humorous Italian western. ~...
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1972
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1972
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The shadow of the recent Attica uprising looms large over the October 3, 1972 Bonanza episode "Riot!" While on a tour of the...
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Will Cooper
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1972
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Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the...
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Weenie
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1972
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Far from the Ponderosa, Ben Cartwright is badly injured in a fall from his horse. Seeking help in a nearby town, Ben's son...
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Ed Thornton
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1970
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Joe Cartwright is dumbfounded when his friend, bank employee Wade Turner (Gregory Walcott), abruptly leaves town before his...
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Wade Turner
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1969
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On trial for the murder of John Leggett, Candy comes before "hanging judge" Butler (Chick Chandler). The only eyewitness to...
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1969
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Henry Darrow guest-stars as Amigo, a role originally written for Sammy Davis Jr.). Persecuted all his life merely because of...
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Capt. Fenner
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1967
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Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a...
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1963
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Gregory Walcott is cast as Danny Morgan, a guitar-strumming "travelling troubadour." Grateful that Danny once saved his...
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Danny Morgan
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1963
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Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day....
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1961
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This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima....
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Sgt. Kiley
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1961
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1960
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1960
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The first season of Bonanza came to an end on April 30, 1960, with the episode titled "Death at Dawn." Laurence Mascott's...
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1960
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Bret (James Garner) finds himself in the middle of a "convention" held by some of the west's most notorious outlaws,...
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1959
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1958
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Denied a big budget, Jet Attack scores dramatic points by concentrating on the human side of warfare. Shot down behind enemy...
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Bill
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1958
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A veritable honor roll of famed western heroes and villains appears in the fanciful oater Badman's Country. It all begins...
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Bat Masterson
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1958
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In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The...
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1957
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The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak,...
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1956
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Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory...
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1956
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Thunder over Arizona was the second Republic feature to be lensed in the shortlived Naturama widescreen process. Running a...
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1956
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With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so...
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Jeff Trent
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1956
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Claudette Colbert makes a long-overdue entree into the Western genre in Texas Lady. Looking at least a decade younger than...
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1956
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Alan Ladd plays real-life air force hero Captain Joseph McConnell Jr. in this inspirational biopic, while June Allyson does...
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1955
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Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to...
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1955
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Henry Fonda returned to films after an eight-year absence in this masterful adaptation of the actor's Broadway hit Mister...
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1955
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In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts...
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1955
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Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who...
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1955
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Richard Widmark plays a firefighter for the US Forestry Service, a brave man who nevertheless does not believe in taking...
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1952
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Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the...
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1952
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