The major cast and format changes in Gimme a Break's sixth and final season commence with the two-part season opener, in...
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Grandpa Kanisky
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1986
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With the death of co-star Dolph Sweet on May 8, 1985, the producers of the NBC sitcom Gimme a Break had no choice but to...
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1985
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A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip...
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1985
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Casting a pall over the proceedings in season four of Gimme a Break is the serious illness of co-star Dolph Sweet, whose...
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1984
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Season three of Gimme a Break finds the Kanisky household of Glen Lawn, CA increased by two. In addition to curmudgeonly...
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1983
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Filmed in California, copyrighted in Turkey and enacted in Armenian, Forty Days of Musa Dagh is set in the decades following...
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1983
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The second season of Gimme a Break finds versatile character actor John Hoyt becoming a full-fledged regular in the role of...
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1982
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This documentary presents biblical and non-biblical information about the birth of Christianity, and the mystery behind...
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1979
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The treacherous Baltar (John Colicos) joins forces with several captured villains from earlier episodes -- the three...
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1979
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This made-for-television film Winds of Kitty Hawk, chronicles the efforts of the Wright Brothers to become the first men to...
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1978
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Rex Stout's corpulent, orchid-loving detective Nero Wolfe would eventually headline his own 1980s TV series, courtesy of star...
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1977
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One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum...
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1977
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Hogan must discredit the testimony of Gestapo Major Pruhst (Malachi Throne), who has irrefutable photographic evidence of...
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1971
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The nuns try to help a troublesome convent youngster named Armando (George Spell). The plan backfires when Armando turns into...
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1970
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Hogan's Heroes entered its sixth season (meaning that the inmates of Stalag 13 were incarcerated approximately twice as long...
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1970
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The year is 1876. The place is Medalia, MN. With the Jesse James and Cole Younger gangs cutting a murderous swath through the...
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1970
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Hogan infiltrates a party to steal secret information from German General Von Behler (John Hoyt). In this he is aided by an...
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1969
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An undercover U.S. intelligence agent arranges for Hogan and his crew to be smuggled into Berlin. Disguised as members of a...
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1968
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A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing...
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1968
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As part of the Allies' plans to invade Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944, Hogan is ordered to place the German generals...
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1967
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Hogan and his men draw up a plan to blow up a roomful of German generals during a secret banquet meeting. Posing as caterers,...
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1967
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Having escaped the clutches of mad scientist Vito Scotti in the previous week's episode "Case of the Missing Monkee," the...
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1967
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Hogan hopes to spring French spy Pierre (Theo Marcuse) from Stalag 13. To do this, he must get Klink temporarily out of the...
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1967
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1967
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Once again, Ironside (Raymond Burr) comes to the aid of an old friend, in this case an outwardly solid citizen who faces...
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1967
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John Hoyt, best known to TV sitcom fans as the capricious Grandpa on Gimme a Break, appears in this episode as stern...
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1967
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The starship Enterprise is diverted to Star Base 11 by a message supposedly sent by the ship's former commander, Fleet...
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1966
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Spock faces the death penalty for receiving signals from planet Talos IV. With the agreement of Captain Kirk...
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1966
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Originally telecast November 26, 1966, Fame is the Name of the Game was the first official entry in NBC-TV "Project 120"...
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1966
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Gunpoint stars Audie Murphy as a Colorado sheriff -- and never mind that the film was shot in Utah. Sheriff Lucas (Murphy)...
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1966
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Frontier scout Jess Remsberg (James Garner) is crossing the desert when he spots a dead army scout and group of Apaches...
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1966
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Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) is back with yet another scheme to put the Hooterville Cannonball out of business. In fact, he's...
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1966
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This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the...
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1965
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Set during the Vietnam war before U.S. involvement, this political drama tells the gripping story of an American operative...
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1965
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Virginia City is held in a grip of terror by the vicious family of condemned killer Harry Lassiter (Jack Chaplain....
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1965
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The pilot episode of the original Star Trek television series, "The Cage" features the familiar starship Enterprise, but...
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1965
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Con artists Walters (John Hoyt) and Curtis (Bartless Robinson) sell Herman (Fred Gwynne) ten acres of Happy Holiday...
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1965
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Aspiring to a military career, Jethro announces his intention to enroll at West Point. Not wishing to risk the loss of the...
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1965
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A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his...
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1965
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Although he no longer works for the insurance company that had hired him to track down the stolen Jokarta Diamond, shady...
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1964
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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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In Volume 41 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a robot goes on trial...
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1964
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After a nuclear holocaust, a group of scientists travel to the future and find a world in tatters, where the human survivors...
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Varno
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1964
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NBC aired this domestically-themed situation comedy from early October 1964 through early January 1965 as part of an...
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1964
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In this experimental mystery film, a young woman is arrested for killing a burglar. A lovesick detective gets her acquitted....
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1964
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The infamous story of 19th century grave robbers Burke and Hare is given a new slant in this episode, told from the...
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1964
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The President of the United States requires an emergency operation, which must be conducted in secret, after he is injured...
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1964
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Richard Bellero (Martin Landau) is a brilliant but frustrated scientist, forever failing to find approval from his wealthy,...
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1964
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Suffering from insomnia, Marilyn (Beverly Owen) takes a sleeping potion which, unbeknownst to her, has been "improved" by her...
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1964
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Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an...
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Dr. Willard Benson
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1963
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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1963
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Though he struck out rather spectacularly during his first visit to the Shady Rest, railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe...
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1963
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This is the second of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the...
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1963
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Seriously injured in a fall, Hoss Cartwright is in desperate need of medical attention. Alas, the only available doctor is a...
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1962
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While searching for an accused murderer named Ahab Tyson (George Matthews), Paladin (Richard Boone) is saddled with an...
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1962
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Jeff Chandler stars as American brigadier-general Merrill, commanding a regiment in Burma during World War II. Surrounded on...
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1962
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Bart (Jack Kelly) and crooked peddler Cannonbaugh (John Dehner) have been captured by...
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1961
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Season Four of Maverick concludes with the series' only two-part episode. In Part One, Bart (Jack Kelly) purchases a...
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1961
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In an effort to help railroad owner Paul Sutton (James Westerfield) escape his financial woes, Bart (Jack Kelly) enters into...
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1961
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Peter Caine (Douglas Dick), the dissolute son of prominent building engineer William Harper Craine (John Hoyt), is being...
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1961
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1961
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Originally titled "Nobody Here but Us Martians," this darkly comic Twilight Zone episode was a rewrite of (and vast...
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Ross
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1961
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Paladin (Richard Boone) is one of four travellers who witness a man falling down a ravine and being trapped on a ledge by a...
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1960
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This episode was written by W.R. Burnett of Little Caesar fame, so it shouldn't be a surprise that much of the story is told...
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1960
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1960
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The scene is the magnificent but isolated home of scientist Dr. Loren (John Hoyt), his wife (Irene Tedrow), and their...
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Dr. Loren
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1960
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Without his parents' knowledge or permission, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) orders an accordion by mail for a ten-day free tryout....
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Mr. Franklin
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1960
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A small western town in the 1880s has been beset by a series of mysterious deaths, mostly involving young women, with no...
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Dr. Carter
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1959
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Conflicting views on how to handle juvenile delinquents are not convincingly brought across in this teen melodrama by...
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Col. Walton
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1959
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1959
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Egged on by the irksome Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), Wally (Tony Dow) insists upon being allowed to pick out his own new suit...
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Salesman
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1958
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Philip Larkin (Terry Becker) is murdered, and his stepfather Joseph Harrison (John Hoyt) is charged with the crime. A key...
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1958
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This gripping drama uses archival footage combined with new footage to re-create the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also...
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Prof. Tolnai
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1958
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Attack of the Puppet People is one of the few "mad scientist" opuses of the 1950s to be motivated by loneliness rather than...
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1958
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Perry (Raymond Burr) is suspicious when Rhoda Reynolds (Christine White) shows up in his office to ask advice on the legality...
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1958
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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1957
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Shortly before committing himself to the TV sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, Howard Duff starred in the dust-caked western Sierra...
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Sheriff
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1957
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Dr. Compton
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1957
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Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative...
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Gordon Palmer
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1957
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John Hoyt guest stars as Rex Proctor, a politically ambitious Washington bureaucrat. Arriving in Dodge City, Proctor insists...
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1957
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The 60-minute Mr. Krane was originally telecast March 21, 1957 on the daily network anthology Matinee Theatre. The story is...
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1957
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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1956
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1956
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Though released by 20th Century-Fox, Mohawk was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson, who also doubled as the film's...
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1956
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Per its title, Wetbacks deals with the smuggling into the US of illegal Mexican aliens. The villains are played by John Hoyt...
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Steve Bodine
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1956
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In this convoluted thriller a manipulative woman gets entangled in her own web of deceit. The story is set in Mexico, where...
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Harley Kendrick
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1956
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1956
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1955
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Telecast live from Hollywood, this hour-long version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stars Michael Rennie...
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1955
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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1955
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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1955
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Adapted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his own novel, Trial is a surprisingly timely story of how justice can sometimes be...
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1955
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This 1955 period piece recreates the notorious events surrounding the murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw....
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1955
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In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an...
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1955
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Her days of cinematic glory behind her, Paulette Goddard was compelled to take whatever came along in the mid-1950s. Playing...
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Elijah
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1954
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1954
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1954
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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1954
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1953
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Boris Karloff returns to his old Universal stamping grounds in the mild horror item Black Castle. The plot is motivated by a...
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1952
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Loan Shark was one of several independently-produced films made by George Raft in the early 1950s. Raft plays Joe Gargan, a...
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Phillips
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1952
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1952
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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In keeping with the postwar trend of on-location shooting, Quebec was actually lensed in Canada, rather than on some...
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Father Antoine
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1951
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First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by...
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Sydney Stanton
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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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Director Gerry Mayer, nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer, proved that nepotism had nothing to do with his hiring by turning...
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1951
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In this adventure-fantasy, an American rocket ship crashes upon a remote island in the Pacific and an Air Force pilot and a...
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Michael Rostov
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1951
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Jane Greer plays a hard-boiled dame so well in The Company She Keeps that the film's outcome remains in doubt right up to the...
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Judge Kendall
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1950
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Richard Basehart stars as an ex-convict who has problems finding employment on the outside. He takes a job as a lab assistant...
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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Ed Ferguson
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1950
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Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title...
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1949
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When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start turning up, the Treasury Department recognizes them as the work of Tris...
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Downey
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1949
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1949
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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1949
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Dr. Rojac
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1949
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The relatively relaxed movie censorship in the postwar years enabled Columbia to produce To the Ends of the Earth, a film...
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1948
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The most memorable aspect of Winter Meeting, and the one that stirred up the most publicity, was its teaming of two Davises:...
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Stacey Grant
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1948
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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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1948
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In this drama, a poor young boy must choose between his divorcing parents. With the help of a kind judge, he tries to get...
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Mr. Caldwell
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1948
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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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Dr.Lundau
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand-new cadre of specially trained...
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1946
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