Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five...
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Screenwriter
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1979
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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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A young widow with three children and a sheepdog marries a widowed man with a young daughter and a French poodle in this...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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Middle-aged Nellie Dubois (Jeanette Nolan) became a widow when her husband died during their vacation in Europe. Upon her...
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1964
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Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a...
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1963
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This romantic comedy opens with a resounding warning: its chief concerns are passion, bloodshed, desire, and death....
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1963
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Victor Buono, who skyrocketed to stardom by virtue of his work in the title role of the earlier Untouchables episode "Mr....
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1962
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In his second Untouchables appearance, Lee Marvin is disturbingly convincing as Victor Rate, a brilliant psychopath in...
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1962
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This sci-fi melodrama about housing construction in the murky deep sea is as clear as the muddied water itself. Enterprising...
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1962
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Cliff Robertson plays Tolly Devlin, an embittered ex-convict who has spent a lifetime tracking down the men who murdered his...
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Gela
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1961
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Following the example of his sworn enemy Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), Frank Nitti sets up his own team of "Untouchables" to...
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1961
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Julie Adams guest-stars as Helen, the widow of Ben Cartwright's old friend Josh Layton. As beautiful as she is charming,...
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1961
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The story of America's most notorious gangster mother is chronicled in this crime drama. The tale starts in Oklahoma during...
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1960
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Although this story of the making of a gangland hoodlum reflects only some of the real history of the Detroit Purple Gang in...
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1960
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Casale
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1959
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Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama...
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Capt. Harvey
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1959
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The drama in this fact-based tale about the killing of a young Japanese man is undermined by trite characters and a...
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Jesse Bronson
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1959
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In one of the series' eeriest episodes, American photographer Rita Wallace (Cloris Leachman) sets up shop in Paris, hoping to...
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Det. Marsac
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1959
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Seasoned serial director Spencer Gordon Bennett helmed this story of a one-eyed, octopoidal space alien, wreaking havoc upon...
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Dave
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1959
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The 1962 theatrical release of The Scarface Mob was created from the first two episodes of the famously popular 1959 TV...
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1959
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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1957
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Advertised as an out-and-out horror picture, Voodoo Woman is more of a "greed and revenge" melodrama than anything else. Mad...
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1957
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Gentle, soft-spoken Cain Vestal (Harry Bartell) is told by Doc (Milburn Stone) and several other physicians that he is dying...
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1957
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Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal...
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Capt. Caumont
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1957
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The Rico brothers are mobsters in the employ of syndicate head Sid Kubick. Richard Conte plays the one Rico brother who has...
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1957
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are up against a well-organized gang of auto thieves, who seem to follow no...
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1957
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The lovely assistant of an evil hypnotist has no idea that she is the descendant of a horrifying prehistoric sea monster she...
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1956
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The Day the World Ended was filmmaker Roger Corman's modest entree into the realm of science fiction. The film begins at "The...
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1956
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For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays...
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1956
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Two newcomers have arrived in Dodge City: Disillusioned preacher Seth Tandy (Royal Dano) and sadistic ex-boxer Sam Keeler (a...
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1956
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In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. In his...
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1956
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Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman....
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1955
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In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother...
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1955
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This exciting caper outing is loosely based on the famous robbery of Brinks in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million....
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1955
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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In this downbeat exploitation drama, a vengeful father vents his wrath on the teenage terrors who bashed his baby's head...
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1955
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The Atomic Kid strives mightily to wring laughs from the otherwise humorless topic of atomic radiation. Mickey Rooney (who...
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1954
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Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this cleaned-up...
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1953
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John Forsythe plays a successful television writer, Don Newell, who works on the "Crime of the Week" anthology series. Newell...
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1953
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Kansas City Confidential, Phil Karlson's low (low) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery...
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1952
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Jerry
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1952
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon...
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1952
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1952
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An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA....
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1952
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1951
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Suicide Attack was assembled from captured Japanese newsreel and propaganda footage. English-language narrator Paul Dubov...
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1951
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Broderick Crawford plays Johnny Damico, a detective who suddenly finds himself up to his neck in trouble and his career on...
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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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1950
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1950
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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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1950
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1950
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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the...
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1949
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In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and...
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2nd Detective
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1945
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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1943
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This patriotic WW II-era bit of anti-Japanese propaganda centers on a white Texas college student who becomes such good...
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1943
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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In this musical drama, a Vermont farm lad goes to the Big Apple to become a member of the National Dairy Association. He...
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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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1942
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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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1942
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In this WW II-era drama, an over-ambitious beauty contestant's single-minded pursuit of movie stardom causes her to step...
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been...
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1942
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The first of the "splinter" groups to emerge from the Dead End Kids was the Little Tough Guys, consisting of veteran...
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1938
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