What better subject for a screen comedy than the life and times of confessed Unabomber Theodore "Ted" Kaczynsky? This...
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Professor
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1999
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In a spoof of a famous David Brinkley moment, Murphy (Candice Bergen) makes a disparaging remark about President Clinton...
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1997
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The third-season Babylon 5 saga "Point of No Return" arrived at a cliffhanger conclusion with its 22nd installment,...
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1996
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When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis, in an uncharacteristically un-smirking performance) visits Los Angeles to...
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1994
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The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated...
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1994
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The gargantuan St. Bernard finds love in this sequel to the box-office hit. Beethoven happens to meet Missy, another St....
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1993
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The Judas Project is advertised by its distributors as a contemporary fantasy. Let's see if this plotline rings a bell: A...
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Poneras
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1993
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Joe Dick
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1992
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Developed by Tina Sinatra and approved by Frank himself, Sinatra is a made-for-television mini-series following the life and...
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1992
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For most of his life, a former cop (Keith Carradine) has been tormented by his inadvertent involvement in the death of his...
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1991
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The can't-miss teaming of Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn is squandered on a clumsy, illogical romantic melodrama. Running across...
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Lou Baird
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1990
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This made-for-TV adventure dramatizes the courage of Allan Pinkerton, who founded the famed detective agency, and a...
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1990
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1990
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The Conner family is having a busy weekend and its not helped by Dan trying to fix the refrigerator. A door-to-door salesman...
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1989
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Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and...
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1988
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The daughter of a wealthy American entrepreneur is sent to a monastery on a remote Yugoslavian mountainside, where it is...
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1988
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A syndicate of Los Angeles gangsters is kidnapping beautiful young women, drugging them, and forcing them to participate in...
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1987
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While Harry (Harry Anderson) takes a night off, his replacement is the much-older Judge Robert Hirsch (Jeff Corey). This...
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1986
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The A-Team's Thanksgiving celebration is put on hold when Stockwell (Robert Vaughn) orders our heroes to capture exiled...
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1986
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Second Serve is that rare TV movie which refuses to sensationalize its so-called "sensational" material. This is the true...
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1986
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The Magnificent Five, a group of winos, steal the $4,000 intended to buy a stained-glass window for St. Dominic's by a bag...
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1985
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This romantic, melancholy twist on the Frankenstein formula stars Peter O'Toole as Professor Harry Wolper, a lonely eccentric...
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Dean Harrington
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1985
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This made-for-TV movie was edited from several episodes of the short-lived television series Hell Town, in which Robert Blake...
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Lawyer Sam
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1985
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Don't look for Alex Trebeck or listen for the familiar "thinking music" in the made-for-TV Final Jeopardy. This...
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Derelict
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1985
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1984
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Harry's courtroom docket this evening includes a man claiming to be Santa Claus (Jeff Corey) (red suit, white beard, the...
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1984
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A young man tries to break up the oft-disparaged sport of cockfighting in a rural Southern town. He's up against a whole lot...
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1983
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This is an unusual entry in the knights-in-armor genre. Set in medieval England, the film follows the exploits of a young...
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1982
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In this mystery a psychiatrist and his wife are surprised to find that the quiet seaside town they just moved to is plagued...
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1982
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Narrated by Vincent Price, this story is about a boy who goes to a Transylvanian Castle to learn about fear. This program is...
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1981
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1981
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Homeward Bound is the story of a dying teenager who spends the summer with his divorced father, who has been estranged from...
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1980
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Produced by Roger Corman and scripted by John Sayles, Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheerfully blatant imitation of...
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1980
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With wheat prices plummeting, the farmers of Walnut Grove hold a meeting to decide whether or not to fix prices. The only...
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1979
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After a four-year relationship, Quincy (Jack Klugman) still cannot summon the courage to propose to his lady friend Lynne...
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1979
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1979
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Ray Bledsoe
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1979
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When his home is destroyed and his wife cruelly murdered by a jealous land owner, a young settler sets out to exact his...
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1979
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1978
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The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah...
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1978
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Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager...
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1977
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1977
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The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony...
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1977
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1977
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This wonderfully cheesy TV movie-of-the-week stars Tony Franciosa as a detective hot on the trail of a murderer whose...
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1977
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1977
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1976
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Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a...
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1976
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This episode was designed as the pilot for a proposed Kojak spinoff, starring Vincent Gardenia) as Lt. Kojak's former NYPD...
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1975
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David Niven is an English tutor for the son of the Japanese ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. The two are used as...
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1975
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Doctor's Secrets is a TV "feature film" comprised of episodes from the weekly Doctors Hospital series. George Peppard heads...
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1975
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This provocative, highly atmospheric horror movie tells the tale of a young girl who is terrified that her insane mother...
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Detective Mark Denver
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1975
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Never mind where Carol got her new tattoo, nor why; her mysterious skin decoration is a great source of embarrassment, and...
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1973
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Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) investigate when a successful and universally admired politician dies in...
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1973
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In this drama a newspaper publisher begins to doubt the guilt of a hero convicted of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1972
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Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this comedic western tells of a thieving man who tries to get his hands on two million...
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1971
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Hoss Cartwright is accidentally shot and wounded by Tom Brennan (John Schuck), a settler fresh out of Virginia. Feeling...
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Frank Brennan
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1971
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1971
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This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with illegal drugs. In time he...
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1971
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1971
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Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the...
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1970
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"Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the...
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Dr. Willhunt
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1970
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An amoral film student will stop at nothing to gain a movie contract in this pretentious effort. Tony Hall (Robert Forster)...
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1970
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Sometime after the events of the first Planet of the Apes, the climax of which is repeated frame for frame at the beginning...
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1970
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Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of...
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1970
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The Bold Ones was the umbrella title given a group of rotating hour-long TV series, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Joining...
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1970
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Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western...
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1969
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The Enterprise becomes involved in an important mining planet's class struggle in this installment of the enduringly popular...
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1969
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In this adventure, Pat Morrison (Burt Reynolds) leads a group of World War II veterans back to the Philippines in search of...
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Wombat
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1969
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In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him...
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1969
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The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true...
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1968
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study...
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1967
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Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a listless Manhattan businessman who lives with his wife in the New York suburbs. One...
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Mr. Ruby
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1966
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Spinster Maggie Dowling (Joanne Linville) has been told all her life that she is dowdy and unattractive. Joe Cartwright...
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Tuck Dowling
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1966
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Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid...
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1965
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Once a thief, always a thief. This is the sorry lot of Eddie (Alain Delon), an ex-convict who tries his best to go straight....
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1965
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Often described as a French New Wave film made in Hollywood, Arthur Penn's 1965 art movie enters the unsettlingly paranoid...
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Fryer
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1965
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On the night of his wedding in 1929, Harvey Kry (David Frankham) is surprised by an anonymous gift, a box with a single hole...
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1964
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The seventh volume in a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology series focuses on a surveillance...
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1964
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Reba Burgess (Audrey Totter) has managed to keep her late husband's mining company alive by securing big bank loans, using a...
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1964
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Olivia de Havilland stars in this sensationalistic shocker as Mrs. Halyard, a wealthy widow recuperating from a broken hip....
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George L. Brady Jr.
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1964
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Written by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary stars Pat Boone as insufferable singing idol Andy Paxton....
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1963
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet...
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Bishop
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1963
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Now that the U.S. Government has come up with a method to denature industrial alcohol so that it cannot be used in the...
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1961
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This concluding episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. The digging...
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1953
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This first episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. Reporters Clark...
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1953
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Henry Hathaway directed this high-tension drama about a man teetering on the verge of self-destruction and how his dilemma...
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1951
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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Skee
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1951
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Mokar
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1951
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1951
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Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in...
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Luke Benson
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1951
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Filmed in Ansco Color (a fancy name for Eastmancolor), New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as Capt. Hunt, a U.S. Cavalry Captain...
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1951
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Never Trust a Gambler proves the veracity of its title by offering up a particularly unsavory specimen in the form of Steve...
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Lou Brecker
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1951
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Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of...
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1950
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Singer-bandleader Vaughn ("Racing with the Moon") Monroe made a tentative stab at movie stardom in 1950. Singing Guns casts...
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Richards
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1950
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MGM went into the western-programmer business relatively late in the game, but made up for lost time with such laudable...
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1950
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1950
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The Next Voice You Hear was a pet project of MGM producer Dore Schary, who lavished more attention on this modestly budgeted...
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1950
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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1950
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1950
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Sgt. Art Collins
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1949
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Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and...
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Mohammed Jao
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1949
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Lieutenant Macon
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1949
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Hovering somewhere between an "A" and "B" production, RKO's Roughshod is an expert blend of western and film noir....
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1949
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Reliable serial and western leading lady Adrian Booth is awarded top billing in Republic's Hideout. Hannah (Booth) and Edie...
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1949
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Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he...
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The Doctor
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1949
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This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two...
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1949
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This French documentary regales and sometimes repels the viewer with glimpses of bizarre African native customs. Unlike later...
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1949
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This comedy focuses on a nuclear scientist who believes that his dead brother has been reincarnated as a dog. ~ Rovi...
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado corrections facility and...
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1948
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In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War...
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1948
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Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an...
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1948
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1948
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This adventure is based on Longfellow's famous poem. It's the story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his...
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1948
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1948
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For his first independent production, former child star Roddy McDowall selected the tried-and-true Robert Louis Stevenson...
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Shuan
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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Bice
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1947
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Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde)...
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1947
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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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1947
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Having struck gold with the previous season's Dillinger, the King Brothers returned to Monogram as producers of The Gangster....
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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1947
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George Taylor (John Hodiak) is a war veteran suffering from amnesia with only two clues to his past: the bitter letter from...
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1946
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1946
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Blinky
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1946
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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1943
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An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and...
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Tim Murphy
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1943
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In this comedy, set in WW II, a Venezuelan rubber planter's son must travel to New York to try and secure a loan for the...
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1942
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1942
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This 20th Century-Fox cheapie stars Carole Landis as a pretty detective and Allyn Joslyn as a fast-talking reporter ever on...
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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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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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally...
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1942
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running "Higgins" series of comedy dramas, Papa Higgins throws his family into turmoil when he...
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1941
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The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation...
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1941
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1941
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Made just before America's entry into World War II, Paris Calling is one of the earliest French Underground adventures. When...
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1941
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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