In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film...
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Inspector Balsam
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1994
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1993
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In this two-part adventure drama based on a thriller by author Sidney Sheldon, three nuns must run for their lives from a...
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1992
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Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of...
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1991
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Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case...
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1991
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In this thriller, a successful executive risks it all to help a street orphan get disentangled from the world of drugs. ~...
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Sidney Rosenberg
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1988
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When newspaper editor Charles Bradley (Anthony Zerbe) makes a call uncovering corrupt Los Angeles cops selling drugs, his...
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1987
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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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Marty
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1987
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Kids Like These was cowritten by Emily Perl Kingsley, the mother of a Down's Syndrome child. Basing the script for this TV...
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1987
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Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon...
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Ben Kaplan
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1986
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In this uneven drama, Jeff (Tom Mason) is a Vietnam vet trying to eke out a living in New York when his already difficult...
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1986
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Second Serve is that rare TV movie which refuses to sensationalize its so-called "sensational" material. This is the true...
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1986
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In the second half of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Three opener, Jessica's long-missing brother in law Neil Fletcher...
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1986
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In this charming drama, a aging rock musician and a world-weary flight attendant haven't seen each other in years. Then they...
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1986
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1986
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Season Three of Murder She Wrote begins with the first episode of a two-part story, in which mystery writer Jessica Fletcher...
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1986
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A crew of international astronauts find that a murderer is in their ranks. They must solve the crime before reaching earth,...
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1985
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Bennett
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1985
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Post-collegiate angst, '80s style, is the subject of this coming-of-age ensemble piece, which traces the fortunes of a group...
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1985
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Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the...
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1984
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In this run-of-the-mill suspense thriller, a woman fights for her survival on two different occasions. Kathy's (P.J. Soles)...
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Sheriff Virgil Baker
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1984
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Max Silverman
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1983
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This drama is adapted from the true story of Barbara Graham, a woman sentenced to die in the mid-1950s after she allegedly...
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1983
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Chaim Sigerski (Martin Balsam), an Auschwitz survivor who runs a Holocaust museum, is convinced that his old friend Isaac...
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1982
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This pilot film for an unsold TV series was originally titled They're Playing Our Tape. Michael Constantine stars as Frank...
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1981
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Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and...
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Navy Capt. Steffanelli
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1981
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The videotaped TV movie The People vs. Jean Harris premiered May 7, 1981-five weeks after the outcome of Jean Harris' trial....
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1981
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In this convoluted crime drama, two incorruptible Italian policemen investigate Mafia-influenced corruption within their own...
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1980
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Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars...
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Elmer Babcock
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1980
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Based on a true story, this made-for-TV spy movie chronicles the 1960 capture of a Nazi in South America. When Israeli agents...
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Issar Harel
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1979
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1979
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This TV movie stars Jean Stapleton as the real-life "Aunt" Mary Dobkin, a physically handicapped woman living in the...
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1979
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In this dark drama, a woman allows a human embryo to be implanted in her body and then realizes she has made a terrible...
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1979
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After a photographer accidentally snaps pictures of an alien spacecraft, he becomes embroiled in a government cover-up. ~...
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1978
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Siege is set in a big-city housing development. Retiree Martin Balsam, along with the rest of the building's residents, live...
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1978
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Judy Garland's rise to stardom is chronicled in this bio-pic that begins with her vaudeville days and ends with...
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1978
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Christianity, Islam and Judaism are the 3 major religions of the world and this video, filmed in Israel, compares their...
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1977
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The Storyteller is a lukewarm exploration of a hot issue: TV violence. Martin Balsam plays a successful television writer who...
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1977
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Contract on Cherry Street represented Frank Sinatra's TV movie debut--an event deemed worthy of a TV Guide cover story....
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1977
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Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27,...
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Daniel Cooper
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1977
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1977
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A chance for revenge brings a hit man out of retirement in this crime drama directed by genre specialist Antonio Margheriti...
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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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In this drama, a farmer is bequeathed an onion field. Unfortunately he finds he must take on an oil company that also wants...
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1976
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Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper...
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Sam McKeever
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1976
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Professor Ruzinsky
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1976
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Howard Simons
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1976
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The lives of many are in the hands of Italian Police Commissioner Castroni, who is challenged by four young terrorists who...
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1975
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The title tells all in this western. The trouble is that it is difficult to tell whether or not the film is a serious...
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1975
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The premise of this film -- that many magistrates in the Italian system of justice are on the take from corporations,...
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Carlo Goja
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1975
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Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire...
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1975
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When an international financier is killed in a strange fashion, a female homicide detective investigates. (AKA...
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1975
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James Arthur Cummins
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1975
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On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so...
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Green
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1974
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After one of his clients commits suicide, unscrupulous private eye Ray Coughlin (Martin Balsam hopes to cash in on the man's...
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1974
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The inspiration for the made-for-TV movie was an actual event which occurred in June of 1973. A crew of four sinks in a...
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T.C. Hollister
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1974
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the...
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Bianchi
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1974
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Its title inspired by the famous Robert Frost poem "Stopping By a Woods on a Snowy Evening," Miles to Go Before I Sleep stars...
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1974
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When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees,...
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Don Antonio
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1973
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The John Gardner novel A Complete State of Death became this bloody crime flick that united frequent action genre...
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Vescari
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1973
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American GI Harry Walden (Martin Balsam) emerged from a harrowing experience in WWII to find himself living an...
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Harry Walden
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1973
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The flammable money of the title is of the counterfeit variety. Enterprising prison inmate E. G. Marshall devises a scheme to...
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1973
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1972
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Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the...
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Jim Talley
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1972
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1972
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This TV movie was the pilot for the popular series The Six Million Dollar Man. In this maiden effort, we are told just how...
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Dr. Rudy Wells
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1972
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Two lawmen play a game of cat and mouse when one suspects the other of being implicated in a murder in this Italian crime...
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Commissioner Bonavia
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1971
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This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from...
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Haskins
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1971
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The Enemy Before Us stars Tony Franciosca as Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon. Back in his old neighborhood in New York's...
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1971
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An unusually popular ABC Movie of the Week, The Old Man Who Cried Wolf stars Edward G. Robinson as an elderly shopkeeper who...
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1970
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L.G. Floran (Burt Reynolds) is released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter -- convicted of killing his own...
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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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Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
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1970
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Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of...
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Merriweather
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1970
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation...
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Col. Cathcart
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1970
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Since she was a child, Natalie Miller (Patty Duke) has always thought she was an ugly ducking. When a boy called her "clown...
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Uncle Harold
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1969
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In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker...
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Mayor Wilker
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1969
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This trilogy begins with "Miriam" in which the title character (Susan Dunfee) watches as her longtime nanny Miss Miller...
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1969
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In this crime drama, Dan Farrel patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife. ~ Sandra...
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1968
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1968
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Yes, Paul Newman is a blue-eyed Indian in Hombre, but this apparent ethnic error is carefully justified in the body of the...
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1967
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Using the alias "Gene Tyler", Richard Kimble takes a brief respite from his search for the One-Armed Man by attending a...
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1967
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1966
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The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe...
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Lt. Cmdr. Chester Potter
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1965
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Arnold Burns
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1965
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Everett Redman
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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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1964
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1964
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Youngblood Hawke (James Franciscus) is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to make it as a writer. He meets...
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1964
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This romantic adult comedy finds psychiatrist Jason Steel (Dean Martin) the leader of a women's group therapy session. Jill...
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Sanford Kaufman
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1963
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First telecast April 4, 1963, this grim 60-minute Twilight Zone installment would seem to be more suited to Alfred Hitchcock...
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Martin Lombard Senescu
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1963
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Martin Balsam essays the title role in this episode as nightclub owner Benjy Leemer. Caught in the middle of a turf war...
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1962
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Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star...
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Feinberg
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1962
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After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to...
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Chief Dutton
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1962
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Henpecked husband Leonard Thompson (Martin Balsam) shows up at funeral parlor, where he orders an expensive casket and makes...
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1961
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Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich...
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Steve Jackson
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1961
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Hoping to capture narcotics boss Alexander Raeder (Joseph Ruskin) during a "business transaction" at a Chicago amusement...
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1961
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1961
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In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful...
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O.J. Berman
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1961
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In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for...
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Cpl. Fornaciari
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1960
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In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in...
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Milton Arbogast, detective
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1960
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Arrested during a barroom brawl in a small and unfriendly town, Paladin (Richard Boone) groggily awakens in his jail cell to...
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1960
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Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses to admit that she's grown too old to play romantic...
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Danny Weiss
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1959
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Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night,...
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Jack
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1959
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Rod Steiger is the screen's first "method mobster" in the title role of Al Capone. The film traces Big Al's progress from a...
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Kelly
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1959
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Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to...
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1958
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Meek and mild Eldon Marsh (Martin Balsam) has never stood up for himself in his life. But when a bigger guy named Wayne...
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1958
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Filmed for the first season of Have Gun--Will Travel, this episode ultimately served as the opener for Season Two (though...
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1958
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1957
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This gripping courtroom drama -- originally broadcast live on the television series Studio One in 1957 -- follows a father...
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1957
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A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury...
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Juror #1
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1957
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1957
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A to-the-point adaptation of an overly cerebral stage play by Ralph Berkey, Time Limit was the only film directed by...
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Sgt. Baker
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1957
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This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of...
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1954
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