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 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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10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by...
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1971
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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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1954
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The third installment in the haunted-house saga discards any pretense of being based on actual events in order to provide the...
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1983
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Bob Danvers, an arrogant, irresponsible rodeo star, retaliates for losing his wife by having an affair with a pretty fan in...
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1953
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Some auteur critics feel that director Richard O. Fleischer did his best work while laboring in the "B" mills of RKO Radio....
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1950
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Released simply as Ashanti, this search-and-rescue film was adapted by scenarist Stephen Geller (Slaughterhouse-Five) from...
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1979
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Bandido is set during the Mexican civil war of 1916. Robert Mitchum stars as a sleepy-eyed soldier of fortune who finds...
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1956
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In this sentimental children's yarn, a little girl is orphaned when her father, a Georgia plantation owner, is trampled by a...
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1947
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1961
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Robert Wagner stars as insensitive Southern landowner who gets a much-overdue dose of humility and democracy when he's...
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1956
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This adventure melodrama concerns Vic Brennan (Stephen Boyd), who persuades his family to put up money for him to leave...
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1961
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Granite-jawed Lawrence Tierney is the Bodyguard in this second-echelon noir thriller. Invited to resign from the LA police,...
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1949
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The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true...
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1968
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In this pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a...
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1969
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1946
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1949
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Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and...
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1959
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1984
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Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the...
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1960
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1973
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This 48-minute cautionary documentary was the brainchild of Theodore S. Geisel, better known to generations of children as...
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1948
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Rex Harrison, although not at all like the portly man described in Hugh Lofting's charming series of children's stories, is...
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1967
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1973
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Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet-untested...
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1966
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1949
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This 1955 period piece recreates the notorious events surrounding the murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw....
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1955
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The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by...
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1952
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Every so often, an actor or actress will achieve a fame which transcends any memory of their work, and he or she becomes...
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1976
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Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The...
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1980
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George C. Scott stars in The Last Run as an aging mob driver hoping to make one last big haul and retire. Harry Garmes...
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1971
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Make Mine Laughs was the second of three RKO Radio "pastiche" films, largely comprised of musical and comedy highlights from...
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1949
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Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down...
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1975
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A government worker (Tom Bosley) informs several diner patrons of a $4 million treasure he stole from a group of Libyans and...
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1987
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Elmore Leonard's script for Mr. Majestyk was, like his novel, supposed to have concentrated on the plight of Chicano migrant...
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1974
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The Narrow Margin is generally considered a "model" B picture; some film buffs go farther than that, labelling this 1952 RKO...
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1952
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Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by...
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1972
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A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale...
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1977
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Brigitte Nielsen appears as warrior woman Sonja, who unites with a couple of other gladiator types (including...
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1985
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While Idi Umin Dada terrorized Uganda with a barbaric, 8-year, depotic rule, he portrayed himself to the world at large as a...
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1981
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This riff on Wait Until Dark is a mixed bag but still manages to offer a few surprises. Brian Clemens' script starts off with...
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1971
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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1948
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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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1973
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In this western, an outlaw is wounded in battle and manages to escape to the home of two helpful runaways who help him...
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1974
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Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend...
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1959
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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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1970
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In this sports-oriented drama, Art Long (Dennis Quaid), a loser as a country singer, starts competing in local fist-fight...
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1983
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When nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills start turning up, the Treasury Department recognizes them as the work of Tris...
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1949
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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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1958
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1955
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