Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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Based on a novel by James Hardiman, this routine haunted-house scenario is enhanced a bit by its lush Eastern setting. The...
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1982
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A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie...
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1981
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This film is based on Winston Churchill's memoirs of his leadership of England from Dunkirk to D-Day. ~ John Bush, Rovi...
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1981
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"Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914...
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Richard Gable
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1980
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A mid-air jet disaster leaves the one survivor to avenge the deaths of the others. This supernatural thriller follows him on...
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The Priest
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1980
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Nick (Mike Conners) is the owner of a luxury liner and casino which cruises its way to action and adventure for those on...
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Ed Booker
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1980
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The Hearse, directed by George Bowers is a clichéd, predictable horror film which, despite its interesting cast, is...
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Walter Pritchard
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1980
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Slow-moving and low-key, this psychological thriller about killings in a large, dark mansion has a classic setting and...
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Ivar Langrock
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1980
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This hokey Italian monster movie -- distributed in the U.S. through Roger Corman's New World Pictures under the title...
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Prof. Marvin
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1979
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This half-baked but entertaining disaster film (not to be confused with America's The Concorde - Airport '79) deals with the...
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1979
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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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Crandall
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1978
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In this mystery, Scotland Yard sends out its best detective when several powerful business executives turn up dead. ~ Sandra...
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1978
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In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the...
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Johnson
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1978
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Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government...
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1977
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Ostensibly a six-hour miniseries adaptation of Bert Hirschfield's novel Aspen, the program actually used only the title of...
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Horton Paine
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1977
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Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet...
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Nicholas St. Downs, III
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1977
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A sequel to the 1977 TV movie Fantasy Island, this film was originally titled Fantasy Island II and slated to air on...
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1977
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From 16th century Sicily to the streets of contemporary New York, the Mafia has transcended its humble roots to evolve into...
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Envoy (Gli antenati)
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1976
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on newspaper coverage, court testimony and eyewitness accounts, was dramatized for...
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1976
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Paterno
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1975
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When a couple of ruthless businessmen threaten her logging camp, a defenseless widow is aided by a group of Alaskan...
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1975
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The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: Orson Welles gathers close to a dozen stars, including Charlton Heston,...
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1975
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In this rare 90-minute episode of The Rockford Files, Jim (James Garner) is hired by wealthy Warren Jameson, who wants to...
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1974
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The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than...
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Guest
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1973
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Harry
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1973
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John Saxon and Joseph Cotten head the guest cast in this episode, wherein homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller...
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1973
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry...
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Simonson
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1973
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In this drama, a wealthy US heiress and her partner embark upon their annual journey to Rome to play scopa, an Italian card...
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1972
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1972
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Judge Weatherby
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1972
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Olivia De Havilland plays a middle-aged woman who has recently been released from a mental institution after suffering a...
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1972
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In this grim, violent crime drama, a hit man murders a politician and then boards a ship to New York. During the voyage, the...
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1972
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Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) still lives, surrounded by art-deco...
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Dr. Vesalius
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1971
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This lurid but entertaining Italian/Spanish twist on the Frankenstein legend begins with Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten)...
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Baron Frankenstein
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1971
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This made-for-television feature (which premiered on the ABC Movie Of The Week) attracted slightly more interest than usual,...
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1971
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Irwin Allen, praised in some circles as a science fiction genius and damned in others as a shameless schlockmeister, produced...
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1970
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American...
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Henry L. Stimson
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1970
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In this drama, the second in the "Ironside" series, the Chief becomes marked for murder after he witnesses the execution of...
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1970
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Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must...
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1970
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When an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, a girl disappears increasing the mystery. ~ Rovi...
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1970
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John Gavin stars as Santa Fe marshal Ben Cutter, whose homecoming is blighted when he finds his town has been taken over by a...
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1969
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McKenzie
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1969
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Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is the young bank teller who is bored with her job and her husband. She leaves for Las Vegas...
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Richard Morgan
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1969
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A superb throwback to the "films noir" of old, The Lonely Profession puts icing on the cake with a strong dose of 1960s...
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1969
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Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were...
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1968
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In this second half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) is in the...
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1968
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Ironside departs from its usual one-hour format with this extended episode, originally telecast in a two-hour slot and later...
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1968
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In this spaghetti Western, Joseph Cotten stars as Jonas, an ex-Confederate soldier who robs a Union freight train in order to...
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Jonas
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1967
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The success of several 1960s-era cat-burglar movies depended upon the suave and agreeable machinations of the film's...
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Ace of Diamonds
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1967
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In this film, the twin sons of a white man and an Indian woman must struggle to overcome both their sibling rivalry and...
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1967
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In this war drama, an Army intelligence officer stationed in Saigon labors to discover the identity of the double-agent in...
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1967
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A meandering mule and an old prospector find gold and adventure in the Grand Canyon in this family programmer. ~ Kristie...
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Uncle Jim
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1967
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A woman who works for American Intelligence headquarters in Saigon relates important military information to her husband, a...
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1966
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A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a...
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Kenneth H. Regan
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1966
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In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has...
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Dr. Horace Van Tilden
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1966
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A Civil War vet returns home to his home in the South and witnesses the outdated attitudes of his family--particularly those...
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Temple Cordeen
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1965
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The Great Sioux Massacre is an entertaining pack of lies about Custer's Last Stand. General Custer (Philip Carey) is herein...
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Maj. Reno
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1965
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An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity;...
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Drew Bayliss
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1965
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Narrator
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1964
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Narrator
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1964
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In this actioner, a wanted man clears his name after he arrests the real culprit and his gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1964
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1964
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1964
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Narrator
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1963
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Narrator
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1963
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Narrator
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1963
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John Breckenridge
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1961
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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Hawthorne
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1960
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Philandering husband Courtney Masterson (Joseph Cotten) and his paramour, Peg Valence (Julie Adams), are attacked by a robber...
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1959
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This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both...
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1958
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Victor Barbicane
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1958
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During a Christmas office party, executive Tony Gould (Joseph Cotten) is confronted in his office by his secretary -- and...
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1958
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It's "Freud on the Frontier" time in the tension-filled western The Halliday Brand. Ward Bond plays Big Dan, the despotic...
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Daniel
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1957
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Two brothers face their personal demons in this crime melodrama. Donald Martin (Van Johnson) is an alcoholic criminal who has...
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Martin
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1956
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In this thriller, "Foggy" (Wendell Corey) is a bank teller who got his nickname for the thick spectacles he must wear. Foggy...
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Sam Wagner
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1956
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Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort for his popular suspense anthology is one of the series' best ever episodes....
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1955
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Vom Himmel Gefallen is better known by its American title, Special Delivery. Joseph Cotten plays John Adams, a functionary at...
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Jonathan Adams
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1955
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1954
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Whitney Cameron
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1953
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The three stories in this anthology are all set beside the Nile River and are narrated by Joseph Cotten. The first story...
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1953
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Belated honeymooners Polly (Jean Peters) and Ray Cutler (Casey Adams) arrive at their Niagara Falls cottage only to find that...
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George Loomis
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1952
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1952
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Joseph Cotten plays a assistant bank manager who steals $500,000 from the safe late on a Friday. He plans to fly to Brazil...
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Jim Osborne
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1952
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Reportedly, there was no love lost between the three stars of Untamed Frontier, and perhaps it was this tension that added so...
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Kirk Denbow
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1952
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Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad...
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Michael Bachlin
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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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John Raymond
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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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Dupin
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1951
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The brooding British romantic drama Gone to Earth is better known by its American title The Wild Heart. Filmed in England and...
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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Chris Hale
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1950
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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David Lawrence
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1950
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Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate...
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Col. Clay Tucker
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Holly Martins
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1949
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Sam Flusky
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1949
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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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Dr. Louis Moline
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1949
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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Eben Adams
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1948
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When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd...
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Glenn Morley
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1947
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Jesse McCanles
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1946
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Ayn Rand wrote this adaptation of Chris Massie's book Pity Mr. Simplicity, about a soldier who falls in love with a former...
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Alan Quinton
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1945
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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Brian Cameron
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1944
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Ginger Rogers gives a dramatic performance in this moving romantic drama in which a woman named Mary Marshall, who was...
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Zachary Morgan
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1944
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Lt. Tony Willett
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1944
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Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin...
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Bill Morley
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1943
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Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also...
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Charlie Oakley
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1943
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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Eugene Morgan
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1942
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Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to...
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Screenwriter, Howard Graham
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1942
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Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances,...
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Michael Fitzpatrick
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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Jedediah Leland
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1941
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1938
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