Take a colorful trip through cinema history while discovering the incredible story of celebrated British cinematographer...
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2011
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The rich legacy of cinema legend Kirk Douglas is explored in Academy Award-winning actress and documentary-filmmaker...
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2005
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Director Michael A. Goorjian's Illusion tells the tale of a dying film director who, after leading a lavish life of fame and...
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Donald Baines
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2004
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A family takes on the difficult task of learning how to get along with one another in this emotional comedy drama. Alex...
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Mitchell Gromberg
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2003
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The purpose of this PBS documentary is to show that the true villains of the Hollywood Blacklist were not always "evil"...
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2002
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas is ideally cast as Ross Berger, an 83-year-old tycoon who owns a chain of fitness gyms. There...
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2000
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A elderly man and his estranged son search for treasure and try to repair their relationship in this bittersweet comedy....
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Harry Agensky
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1999
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Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned,...
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1999
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This video charts director John Frankenheim's rise from working as an assistant director in television to directing such...
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1997
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Kirk Douglas has the starring role in this made-for-television drama which is based on the novel The Lies Boys Tell by Lamar...
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Ed Reece
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1994
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It's been said that nothing can bring two men closer together than a dollar placed between them, and a large family finds...
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Uncle Joe McTeague
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1994
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In Secret, a Cape Cod businessman (Kirk Douglas) plans to run for political office until his grandson's battle with dyslexia...
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Mike Dunmore
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1993
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Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the...
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1991
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1991
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1990
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This courtroom drama was inspired by the notorious Scopes trial of 1925 concerning the teaching of Darwinism in public...
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1988
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The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an...
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David Konig
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1987
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Archie Long
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1986
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1986
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Amos Lasher
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1985
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In this made-for-cable TV movie, the death of a lawman at the hands of an old outlaw (James Coburn) causes an old gunslinging...
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Harry H. Holland
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1984
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The film may be called Eddie Macon's Run, but the title character (John Schneider) takes a back seat during most of the...
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Carl Marzack
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1983
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In this made-for-television drama, a widower travels to Israel for the 1981 World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in order...
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1983
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Inspired by an epic poem by A.B. "Banjo" Patterson, The Man From Snowy River was a major step forward for the regenerated...
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Harrison,Spur
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1982
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Host
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1980
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It's nice to know that some of the greatest of the movie stars, while doing some of the most famous and best of Hollywood...
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1980
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The USS Nimitz, a modern-day nuclear-powered aircraft carrier captained by Kirk Douglas, passes through a time warp and finds...
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Capt. Matthew Yelland
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1980
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In a futuristic setting, two research scientists (a guy and a gal) are set up in an orbiting space station. The guy is...
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Adam
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1980
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Brian De Palma directed this treatise concerning an egotistical film professor as a film-making project for his...
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Dr. Tuttle, "The Maestro"
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1979
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The presence of Paul Lynde, in a small role, reveals more about the quality and tone of this film than the three top names. A...
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Cactus Jack
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1979
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Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While...
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Peter Sandza
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1978
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Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) is a wealthy and powerful industrialist, an engineer who develops nuclear power plants. A true...
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Robert Caine
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1977
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Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing...
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Hershel Vilnovsky
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1976
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"An unprecedented cast brings to life the blockbuster book"--or so said the add copy for The Moneychangers, a four-part TV...
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1976
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Mike Wayne
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1975
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Kirk Douglas produced, directed, and starred in this cynical western concerning Howard Nightingale (Kirk Douglas) a United...
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Director, Producer, Marshal Howard Nightingale
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1975
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In Mousey a made-for-TV thriller, a disturbed and obsessed man seeks to regain his son from his overbearing, controlling...
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1974
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In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely...
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Director, Peg
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1973
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This made-for-TV musical adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale is a curious novelty -- not only because it...
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Dr. Jekyll
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1973
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Wallace
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1972
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A Gunfight was the first mainstream American film to be produced by an Indian tribe -- specifically, the Jicarilla Apaches of...
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Will Tenneray
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1971
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This action adventure is based on Jules Verne's The Light at the Edge of the World. It takes place in 1865 on the chilly tip...
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Producer, Denton
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1971
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As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this moment. He remembers his...
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Producer
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1971
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Andrej
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1971
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An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris...
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Paris Pitman. Jr.
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1970
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Kirk Douglas has an extreme case of mid-life crisis in Elia Kazan's turgid melodrama (adapted from his best-selling novel)....
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Eddie Anderson
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1969
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Producer, Frank
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1968
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Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled...
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Schuyler
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1968
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John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder...
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Lomax
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1967
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Sen. William J. Tadlock
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1967
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Once again, Lucy (Lucille Ball) has a hankering to see some movie stars close-up. Her first step in this direction is to take...
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1966
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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Gen. George Patton
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1966
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Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American...
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Col. David Mickey Marcus
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1966
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it...
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Cmdr. Paul Eddington
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1965
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In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is...
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Dr. Rolf Pederson
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1965
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Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was...
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Producer, Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
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1964
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Producer
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1963
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In this romantic comedy, Deke Gentry (Kirk Douglas) is a lawyer who gets an unusual assignment from Chloe Brasher...
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Deke Gentry
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1963
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1962
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about...
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Jack Andrus
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1962
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Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art...
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Producer, Jack Burns
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1962
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Only slightly murky around the edges of character delineation, this wartime drama by George Seaton focuses on three American...
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Sgt. P.J. Briscoe
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1962
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Gene Pitney's hit title song for this courtroom drama became a bigger and more enduring success than the film in which it was...
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Maj. Steve Garrett
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1961
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Brendan O'Malley
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1961
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Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples....
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Larry Coe
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1960
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Executive Producer, Spartacus
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1960
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This film version of George Bernard Shaw's satirical take on the American Revolution had a troubled production history (with...
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Dick Dudgeon
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1959
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Just outside the small town of Pauley, a Native American woman is attacked by two riders on horseback, raped, and killed. Her...
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Matt Morgan
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1959
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Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse...
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Producer, Einar
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1958
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Of the many filmed versions of the October 26, 1881, O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
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John H. "Doc" Holliday
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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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Maj. Gen. Melville Goodwin
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1957
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Col. Dax
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1957
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In answer to viewer requests, Disneyland host Walt Disney explains how his story men come up with the ideas for their...
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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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Vincent Van Gogh
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1956
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In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured...
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Dempsey Rae
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1955
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The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries...
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Producer, Johnny Hawks
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1955
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With cheerful shamelessness, Walt Disney managed to use several first-season episodes of his Disneyland TV anthology to plug...
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1955
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Gino
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1955
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This very expensive Italian-made adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. The story...
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Ulysses
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1954
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate...
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Ned Land
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1954
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A man finds himself running from both the police and his own troubling memories in this drama. Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas), a...
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Hans Muller
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1953
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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Pierre Narval [Equilibrium]
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1953
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Robert Teller
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1953
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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Jonathan Shields
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1952
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Jim Deakins
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1952
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This compilation tape contains episodes from four 1950s TV drama and comedy series, including The Jack Benny Show with guest...
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1952
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Ever since slipping into Public Domain, The Big Trees has become one of the most accessible and oft-televised of...
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1952
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1952
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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Detective James McLeod
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1951
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Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western Along the Great Divide. Feeling responsible for...
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Marshall Len Merrick
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1951
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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Charles Tatum
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1951
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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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Rick Martin
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1950
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Gentleman Caller
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1950
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While far from the only good film on boxing, Champion is perhaps the best drama ever based on the fight game. It is...
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Midge Kelly
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1949
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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George Phipps
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1949
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Noll Turner
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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Owen Waterbury
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1948
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1947
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Out of the Past is so perfect a film noir that it is considered practically a textbook example of the genre. In his first...
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Whit Sterling
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1947
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In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to murder and obsessive love. The wealthy Martha...
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Walter O'Neil
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1946
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A documentary that features a close look at the Korean War. Includes interviews with survivors. ~ Rovi...
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