Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the...
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Mealie
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1970
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1969
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John Frankenheimer directed this tepid World War II comedy set in the Philippines. When four American soldiers -- Lieutenant...
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1969
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Critically acclaimed Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration...
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1964
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The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from...
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1962
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Released in Great Britain as The Spinster, this romantic drama is based on a novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Shirley MacLaine...
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Rauhuia
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1961
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Rachel Cade (Angie Dickinson), a dedicated American nurse working in the Belgian Congo, meets administrator Henri Derode...
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1960
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The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford starred his...
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Sgt. Matthew Luke Skidmore
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1960
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Based on a classic exercise in existentialism by Ambrose Bierce, this episode is set during the Civil War. Condemned to death...
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1959
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The life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy is highly dramatized in this tuneful biopic. The story opens as his father, a...
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1958
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Filmed in 1958 and released by United Artists in 1959, Machete is set on vast Puerto Rican plantation. Juano Hernandez plays...
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Bernardo
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1958
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Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland...
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Amugu
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1957
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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Njogu
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1957
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Viewers familiar with the 1996 Mel Gibson blockbuster Ransom may be disappointed that there are no smirking villains, car...
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Jesse Chapman
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1956
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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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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by...
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1955
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This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first...
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Wesley Park
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1950
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The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk...
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Art Hazard
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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1950
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Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt...
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Lucas Beauchamp
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1949
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In this all-African American mystery from director Oscar Micheaux, a singer is framed for murder, prompting her boyfriend to...
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1939
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An African-American Secret Service agent (Carl Mahan) saves a young girl from a fate worse than death in this typical...
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1932
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