The voice of Jim Backus accompanies the animated Mister Magoo in his comedy adventures "Bwana Magoo," "Bearfooted Flat Foot,"...
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Zachary Scott uncharacteristically plays for laughs in Warner Bros.' One Last Fling. Scott plays Larry Pearce, the dullish...
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1949
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In The Great Lover, Bob Hope plays "Boy Rangers" scoutmaster Freddie Hunter, who accompanies his young charges on a European...
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1949
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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1949
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No relation to the 1937 screwball comedy of the same name, Easy Living is a film about the world of professional sports....
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1949
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The Dangerous Profession of the title is the bail-bond business. George Raft stars as Kane, a former cop turned professional...
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1949
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The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and...
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1950
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1950
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Singer Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Keyes) arrives in New York City by train after a trip to Cuba, carrying a small cache of...
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1950
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William Eythe is the Customs Agent in this brisk Columbia programmer. The plot finds Bert Stewart (Eythe) stationed in China,...
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Thomas Jacoby
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1950
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine...
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1951
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Even at age 38, Loretta Young could successfully pull off her ingenue duties in the innocuous comedy Half Angel. Young plays...
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Michael Hogan
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1951
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Upon beginning production on his Korean-war drama I Want You, producer Sam Goldwyn lamented "I've just brought those boys...
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1951
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A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin. A relatively...
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1951
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1951
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Arthur Kennedy stars as a blinded war veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. He must overcome his...
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1951
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Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former...
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1951
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The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from...
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1951
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It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up...
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1951
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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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Joan Davis and Jim Backus were the stars of the 1952-1955 sitcom I Married Joan,. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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Brad Stevens
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1952
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Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little...
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1952
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An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA....
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1952
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Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal...
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1952
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Nancy Thorne, 1952's Tournament of Roses queen, makes an extended guest appearances in this Monogram "special." In her first...
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1952
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1952
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Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike...
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Charles Barry
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1952
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Brad Stevens
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1952
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Stan Freberg fans are advised to keep an eye open for the obscure Republic musical Geraldine. Freberg plays recording star...
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Jason Ambrose
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1953
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Brad Stevens
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1953
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Mergo
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1953
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1953
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Brad Stevens
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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Pat Quaid
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1955
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Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series...
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Commander Hutch
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1955
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This landmark juvenile-delinquent drama scrupulously follows the classic theatrical disciplines, telling all within a 24-hour...
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1955
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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Psychiatrist
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1956
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A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy...
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Tom Culdane
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1956
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Danker
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1956
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The talented David Wayne is afforded a rare movie starring role in Allied Artists' The Naked Hills. Wayne plays prospector...
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Willis Haver
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1956
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The peacetime draft is given the teen-idol treatment in The Girl He Left Behind. Hollywood hunk Tab Hunter is starred as a...
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Sgt. Hanna
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1956
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1956
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1956
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Based on a novel by television producer Al Morgan, The Great Man is a Citizen Kane-style look at the private life of a public...
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1956
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In this teenage exploitation drama, a young woman secretly marries. The trouble begins after her husband is killed while...
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Harvey Graham
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1957
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One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces....
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Clarence Logan
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1957
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1957
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When an Army general is appointed to the sensitive diplomatic post that the powerful publisher of a prominent news magazine...
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Col. Homer W. Gooch
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1957
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While overseeing the atomic tests in the Nevada desert, Army colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is exposed to extensive...
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1957
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After a string of such serious projects as The Shrike and I Accuse, director-star Jose Ferrer lightens up a bit with the...
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Paul Mason
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1958
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Mr. Magoo stars in eight cartoons, including "Kangaroo Courting," "Magoo's Checkup," and "Love Comes to Magoo." ~ John Bush,...
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1958
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This first "gimmick" outing from horror producer William Castle is mainly distinguished by the clever ad campaign promising...
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Jim Tyloe
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1958
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A trio of energetic young men try to put on a good show for their Army camp, in this lightweight comedy by Raoul Walsh. Luigi...
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1959
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In this comical western, a curmudgeonly fur-trapper is hurt by an enraged bear and must send his nephew to town with his...
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Cecil Forbes, Store Owner
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1959
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1001 Arabian Nights was the first animated feature film produced by the "progressive" UPA cartoon firm. The studio had...
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Uncle Abdul Azziz Magoo
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1959
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Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man's...
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1959
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Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is...
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Mr. Maxwell
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1959
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Jim Backus guest stars as William Norbert, a mob bookkeeper with a photographic memory. Tired of living on the wrong side of...
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1960
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Mike O'Toole
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1960
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Based on the Edna Ferber novel, this engrossing period piece covers the triumphs, tragedies, loves, and sorrows of a few...
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Dave Husack
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1960
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In this rollicking takeoff of the TV western series Bonanza, Jim Backus guest stars as wealthy rancher Joe Wheelwright, the...
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1961
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Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The...
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Cmdr. Jerry Hammerslag
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1961
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TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented...
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Horatio Kellgore
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1962
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Ira Levin wrote the stage comedy Critic's Choice as a good-natured retort to a comment made by critic Walter Kerr. In his...
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1962
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This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first...
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1962
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Having made a bundle on their 130-episode package of Mr. Magoo TV cartoons, the folks at UPA studios decided to star Magoo in...
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1962
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In this squeaky clean sex comedy (the sort that could only have been made in the early 1960s), Kathy (Kim Novak) is a...
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1962
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Flight Dispatcher
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1963
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This was the first film directed by dancer and choreographer Gower Champion, already experienced at directing television and...
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1963
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This conventional wartime drama is comprised of an inexplicable mix of moods and genres as a U.S. submarine in World War II...
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Bosun's Mate Ed Fennelly
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1963
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to...
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Louis Murphy
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1963
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Jim Backus guest stars as Martin Van Ransohoff, chairman of the board of the Commerce Bank. Arriving in Beverly Hills to...
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1963
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This comical farce is a lighthearted lampoon of Wall Street and the vibrant trading and selling on the floor of the New York...
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Bullard Bear
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1963
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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1964
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More animated adventures with Mr. Magoo and his friends. Here he plays a famous knight in this classic tale. ~ Rovi...
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1964
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Mr. Magoo
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1964
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Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik....
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Miles Whitepaper
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1964
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Union Colonel Brackenby (Melvyn Douglas) and his second-in-command, Captain Heath (Glenn Ford), attempt to command a rather...
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Gen. Willoughby
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1964
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1964
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A classic collection of characters played by Mr. Magoo. Here he portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein, The Count of Monte...
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1964
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The longest "three-hour tour" in history gets under way in the first season of Gilligan's Island. In the course of the...
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1964
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Mr. Magoo plays the seven dwarfs in this classic fairy tale. ~ Rovi...
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1964
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No one liked Gilligan's Island but the public. Roundly condemned by critics as the worst sitcom in TV history when it first...
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Thurston Howell III
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1964
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The near-sighted cartoon character Magoo inhabits the role of Friar Tuck in this animated version of the Robin Hood legend....
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1964
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Mr. Magoo plays in The Three Musketeers in this classic animated video. ~ Rovi...
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1964
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Fluffy the lion is featured in this comedy. He plays the subject of an ambitious experiment done by Daniel Potter...
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1965
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Howard Carol
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1965
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Gilligan's Island enters its second season with two small but significant changes: the series, previously filmed in black and...
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1965
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Season three of Gilligan's Island finds those seven stranded castaways still marooned on a tropical island, still making the...
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1966
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The irrepressible Mr. Magoo (voice by Jim Backus) returns in three adventures that find him reprising Cyrano de Bergerac and...
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1966
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British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield...
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1967
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Otto Preminger directed this star-studded adaptation of K.B. Gliden's novel about racial prejudice and emotional unrest in...
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1967
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This light romantic comedy is set during the November 9th power outage of 1965 that darkened New York and much of the East...
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1968
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In this post WW II comedy, a Nazi-hating German baroness takes care of a deluded American officer who thinks he is still at...
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1969
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When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project,...
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T.R. Hollister
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1969
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In this comedy western, a town rallies together to help a heart-broken blacksmith find new love after his mail-order-bride is...
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1969
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1970
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Charley (Dan Blocker) is the kindly but simple-minded blacksmith who sends a year's earnings back East for a mail-order...
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Staunch
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1970
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Kids and adults alike are provided with a version of American history by the popular '50s cartoon, Mr. Magoo. ~ Kristie...
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1970
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Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psycho-sexual farce....
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1970
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Jim Backus guest stars as General Fitzhugh, who challenge his fellow officer General Schaeffer (Vinton Hayworth) to a game of...
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1970
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A pint-sized pooch with enormous Hollywood ambition wanders the streets of Hollywood and Malibu beach in search for her big...
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1971
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In this drama, two middle-aged businessmen decide to chuck it all and get back to the land. Unfortunately, they too soon...
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1971
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Susan St. James stars as Timothea Lamb, an American language student in Rome who hires on as a tour guide. For some reason,...
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1971
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If anyone is interested in seeing what Kurt Russell used to do before transforming into Snake Plissken in...
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Timothy Forsythe
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1972
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This TV movie stars Stockard Channing as an "ugly duckling" who is dumped on by everyone with whom she comes in contact....
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1973
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1973
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When a little girl questions her faith in Santa Claus, a concerned newspaper reporter renews her belief by explaining the...
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1974
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Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester...
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1975
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Mr. Albertson
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1975
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A woman looking for adventure finds romance, excitement and danger in her viewfinder in this action-packed comedy-drama....
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1975
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Dr. Flamel
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1976
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1977
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1977
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1977
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First telecast March 7, 1977, The Feather and Father Gang is the pilot episode for the weekly TV series of the same name....
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1977
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Chuck Norris plays John T. Booker, a Vietnam vet who finds out that several of his army buddies lost their lives in a mission...
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1978
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Based on a folk tale from Russia, Magic Pony features several familiar faces. It centers around a youth (Johnny Whitaker, the...
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1978
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Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow...
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Thurston Howell III
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1978
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Thurston Howell III
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1979
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The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the...
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1979
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In this action-packed drama, a beautiful singer decides to put her career on hold when her younger brother, who had a problem...
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1979
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It's the ladies to the rescue in the low-budget actioner Angel's Brigade. Wearing form-fitting fatigues, the female stars...
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1979
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Brian Foster (Wesley Eure) is a young inventor who creates a mechanical dog as part of a home protection system. When he...
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1979
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This collection of eight Mr. Magoo cartoons include titles like "Rockhound Magoo," "Gumshoe Magoo" and "When Magoo Flew." ~...
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1980
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More adventures of Mr. Magoo in this entertaining program. ~ Rovi...
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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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Narrated by Mr. Magoo, aka Jim Backus, this collection of classic cartoons include titles like "Magoo Beats the Heat," "Magoo...
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1980
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A compilation of near-sighted antics by Magoo. Titles include "Barefoot Flatfoot," "Bungled Bungalow," "Destination Magoo,"...
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1980
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The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such...
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1980
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The seven stranded castaways find comical chaos when an insane scientist, his trusty sidekick and the title basketball...
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1981
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U.S. president
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1982
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Mr. Magoo stars in eight cartoons, including "Stage Door Magoo," "Magoo's Glorious July 4th," "Sloppy Jalopy," "Magoo's...
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1983
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1983
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1984
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An adventurous chipmunk sets out on a perilous journey to join his fellow chipmunks in nature and find his destiny in this...
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1984
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Helmut Newton is a still photographer known for his innovative fashion photography of glamorous women, and who has also made...
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1989
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