This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros....
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1992
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The story in this lavish cinemadaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask remains faithful to the original novel:...
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1977
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We'll confess not to having seen The Amazing Captain Nemo, principally because we can't find it anywhere. It's our loss,...
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1978
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George and Helen Pasashvily's colorful memoir Anything Can Happen was delightfully brought to the screen by the Paramount...
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Giorgi Papashvily
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1952
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Ricardo Montalban heads a team of undersea explorers dealing in below-the-surface scientific research. At the moment, a...
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1970
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Originally produced as the pilot for a prospective TV series and based on a novel entitled Gypsy in Amber, this is the story...
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1975
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Lee Jennings
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1971
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After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his...
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Dominici
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1980
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Director Jackie Kong, who later made the cult favorite Blood Diner (1987), directed this terrible monster movie for...
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Mayor
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1983
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In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the infamous Berlin Wall, CBS offered the made-for-TV drama Berlin Tunnel 21....
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1981
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The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a...
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1976
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Blood and Orchids was adapted from Norman Katkov from his own fact-based book. The scene is Hawaii, 1937. The wife...
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1986
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Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly...
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1983
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Nereus
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1982
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Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters...
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Doctor
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1981
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Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper...
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Lt. Barney Greenwald
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1954
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This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the...
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1967
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Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking...
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1985
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Jose Ferrer was both star and director of the British WW2 drama Cockleshell Heroes. Ferrer is cast as Major Stringer, the...
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Director, Major Stringer
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1955
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In this horror film an influential family, whose wealth comes from Nazi gold, in San Francisco must preserve an ancient evil...
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1985
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In this horror move, a husband sends a demonic antique car after his wife. She uses her own black magic to fight back. ~...
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1977
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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Raoul Farrago
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1950
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Also known as Cross Current, The Cable Car Murder emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black...
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1971
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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1963
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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1950
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Sigmund Romberg
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1954
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An East German youth attempts to join his parents who have escaped to West Berlin. The only escape route open to him is a...
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Cowan
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1963
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1981
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1976
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This introduction to the theater features a collection of fourteen dramas all combined in four modules. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour...
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1980
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Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
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1984
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Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel Enter Laughing makes a largely successful transition to the screen. Reni Santoni...
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Mr. Marlowe
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1967
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In yet another slick, formulaic Charles Bronson vengeance film (they would continue until the actor was in his mid-70s, still...
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Dr. Hector Lomelin
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1984
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Faye Dunaway portrays the Argentinian title character in this four-hour TV biopic. The story traces Evita's rise to power...
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1981
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1977
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In Fedora, Billy Wilder approaches Hollywood stardom in the same fashion as he did in Sunset Boulevard--with cynicism,...
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Dr. Vando
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1978
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For the second time within a single year (1956), impresario Sol Hurok gathered together an awesome assembly of musical talent...
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1956
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Also known as Lollipop and E Lollipop, Forever Young, Forever Free is a studied piece of whimsy filmed in South Africa and...
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Father Alberto
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1976
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1984
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Abe Fortas
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1980
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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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Director, Screenwriter, Joe Harris
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1956
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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Herod Antipas
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1965
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In this all-too-familiar story, a group of travellers are marooned by a storm. They are forced to spend the night in a...
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1965
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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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Director, Jim Fry
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1958
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This action film stars Brian Thompson as Frank Ryan, a macho soldier of fortune whose latest mission calls for him to pose as...
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1991
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This video documentary looks at the history of Hispanic or Latino stars and pictures in Hollywood, focusing on the last half...
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1999
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The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931,...
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1985
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Ingrid Bergman was both one of Hollywood's most sought after stars and a controversial public figure. Her bright and...
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1991
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Directed by Philip Martell, music director of such horror films as Snake Woman (1961) and Die, Monster, Die! (1964), this...
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1983
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The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
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Director, Alfred Dreyfus
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1958
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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Dauphin
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1948
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the...
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1962
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The life and death of Isabel LaNegra (Miriam Colon), a woman who rose from poverty to become a famed Caribbean madam, is the...
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1992
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The perennial Yuletide animated classic The Little Drummer Boy gets a new look on home video with this release. Actually, the...
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Ben Haramed
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1968
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Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert Caine (Jose Ferrer) gives Magnum (Tom Selleck) 24 hours to locate the woman Caine married...
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1981
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A roman a clef depicting the Wylie-Hoffert murders, this is the first of the made for TV movies introducing the Kojak...
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1973
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In this pilot film for the NBC TV series Medical Story, idealistic young intern Dr. Steve Drucker (Beau Bridges) clashes with...
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1975
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Leopold
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1982
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Set in New Caledonia (though filmed in Hawaii), Miss Sadie Thompson is a heavily laundered adaptation of Somerset Maugham's...
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Alfred Davidson
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1953
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The Missing are Deadly depicts a disastrous chain of events sparked by an immature misstep. Teenager George O'Hanlon Jr. is...
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1974
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Order to Kill was originally shipped out to Spanish-speaking theatres under the title El Clan de los Immorales. The story...
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1975
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Mother's Day was the first made-for-TV movie produced for the CBN Cable Service (now known as the Family Channel). Given...
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1989
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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1952
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Originally intended as the pilot for a never-sold cop series titled Battles, this made-for-TV meller stars William Conrad as...
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1980
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Jose Ferrer guest stars in this episode--but not for long!--as a famed hypnotist known as The Amazing Cagliostro. As a...
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1984
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National Geographic: Living Treasures of Japan profiles nine established and respected Japanese artists. The Japanese...
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1980
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The bizarre premise for this often remote and uninvolving drama is that an otherwise apparently normal man can become so...
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1979
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This drama follows the nine hours that came before the assassination of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu radical....
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Supt. Gopal Das
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1963
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An aging pair of long-time friends look forward to their weekly visit in which they whittle away the hours spinning...
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Warner Watney
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1990
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In this children's adventure, Paco, an orphaned Colombian boy leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big...
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1975
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1991
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This 1981 motion picture follows in the footsteps of the first Christians, led by Peter and Paul, during three decades of...
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1981
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In this romantic made-for-television comedy, a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large...
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1980
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1983
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This video details the Saxon King art collection of Dresden, Germany covering a 500 year period. ~ Rovi...
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1978
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Lionel McCoy
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1977
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After several deaths have occurred during routine surgical procedures, Quincy (Jack Klugman) begins an investigation of...
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1982
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If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all...
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Director
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1961
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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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Erich Rhinemann
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1977
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This lavish retelling of the story of the Hebrew strong man and history's most famous lady barber was based in part on the...
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1984
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Just who is seduced in the made-for-TV Seduced? Technically, it is Vicki Orloff (Cybill Shepherd), who once had a torrid...
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1985
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Robed Figure
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1976
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The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek...
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Rieber
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1965
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Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play The Shrike was brought to the screen by its original director/star, Jose...
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Director, Jim Downs
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1955
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This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the...
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Director
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1962
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This thriller is set aboard a Frankfurt bound train and chronicles the desperate flight of an East German refugee. When the...
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1964
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Previously filmed (and truncated) in 1932, Eugene O'Neill's marathon 1928 Pulitzer-winning stage drama Strange Interlude was...
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1990
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This independently-produced feature concerns a New York woman (Mila Burnette) who's fed up with her marriage and her life....
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Don Fulhencio
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1987
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Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the...
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1978
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In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer....
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1983
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Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The...
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Prof. Siletski
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1983
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Songwriter
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1954
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1989
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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1976
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In this compelling and unusual psychological melodrama Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), a woman tormented by her secret...
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David Korvo
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1949
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The Ben
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1977
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In this detective drama, ace-investigator Dan Farrell looks into the strange bombing of an odd-ball artist. ~ Sandra...
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1970
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Completed in 1985, Rankin/Bass' feature-length cartoon version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows had its network...
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1987
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This children's biopic offers a Disneyfied excerpt from the life of infamous Harry Houdini, who apparently ran away from...
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1987
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When soldiers foolishly remove a stake from a mysterious Transylvanian grave, they release a vampire dog belonging to the...
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Inspector Branco
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1977
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