When Walter Matthau died, America lost one of its warmest and most gifted actors. While starring opposite Jack Lemmon in...
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2000
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It is estimated that 80% of all films released during the silent era have been lost forever, with no prints in existence...
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1999
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John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort,...
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1998
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Lew Grade is the executive producer of this British-German co-production, a romantic drama that gets underway in Las Vegas...
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1998
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This documentary takes a look back at the making of Planet of the Apes. Not just a campy sci-fi thriller, the film was also...
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Host
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1998
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From Sam Butcher, the creator of the popular Precious Moments figurines, comes the Precious Moments video collection. These...
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1998
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Star Power: The Creation of United Artists tells the story of four major figures of the silent film era, actor Charlie...
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Narrator
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1998
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Burned-out, boozing crime novelist Bruce Simon Barker (John Ritter) emerges from his doldrums long enough to involve himself...
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1998
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A prequel to The Jungle Book, this live-action kids' film follows the young wild boy Mowgli (Jamie Williams) as he's pursued...
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King Murphy
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1997
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Dolly Parton stars in this light-hearted story as Ruby Diamond, a singer who unexpectedly dies in an auto wreck and finds...
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St. Peter
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1996
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In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he...
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1996
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1995
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In this sci-fi chiller, a large group of adolescents are kidnapped by a pair of fugitive Star Hunters. The terrified teens...
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1995
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A legendary theatrical family gather for one final show at their East Hamptons estate in this verbose comedy-drama. Swedish...
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1995
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Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual...
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1995
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This hour-long look at Lassie, the lovable collie, was produced by PBS in 1994 to commemorate Lassie's 40th year on...
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1994
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The same haunted mirror that bedeviled people in the first film is back. This time it is used to help a crook steal a young...
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1994
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This black comedy stars Jon Cryer as a young reporter following the case of a serial killer who decapitates his victims. ~...
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1994
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In this fourth episode in the "Angel" saga, beautiful former tough-gal Molly Stewart works as a police photographer. In her...
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1994
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In this feature-length continuation of the popular husband-and-wife television detective series, the fabulously wealthy and...
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1994
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1993
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This colorful, fast-paced documentary pays tribute to animator Chuck Jones on his eightieth birthday. Amidst many clips from...
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1992
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Are we alone? Encounters of the Fourth Kind -- A Report on Communion explores the idea that visitors from other worlds...
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1992
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Ernest Peabody
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1992
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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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In this Navy spoof, a mismatched bunch of sailors are sent to sea as the incompetent crew of the U. S. S. Substandard, a...
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1991
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Made for cable TV, the story involves a wealthy man who believes that a series of people have wronged him during his life....
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1991
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The made-for-TV Earth Angel stars Cathy Bodewell as Angela, a prom queen who dies in 1962. Unfortunately, Angela has not...
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1991
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An Inconvenient Woman, an excellent television mini-series based on the novel by Dominick Dunne, which is loosely based on...
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1991
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Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian...
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Philip Chamberlain
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1991
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Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated...
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1989
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Set in a grim future world, a special U.S. task force is sent to Central America to rescue a downed spy plane. ~ Jason...
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1989
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This horror-comedy sequel finds the teen protagonist of Fright Night being terrorized by the undead sister of the vampire he...
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Peter Vincent
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1989
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A group of medical research scientists decide to take a break and play a little Dungeons and Dragons. This horror film...
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Sorenson
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1989
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This reject from slasher-movie remedial school -- featuring copious amounts of teen sex and the usual unimaginative gore...
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Mr. Dante
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1989
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Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he...
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1989
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Sheridan Le Fanu's erotic horror tale -- the inspiration for Hammer Films' bosom-heaving "Karnstein Trilogy" and Roger Vadim...
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1989
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The citizens of Cabot Cove are terrified by the arrival of young Irene Terhune (Julian Donald), an apparent practitioner of...
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1989
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Ryan Richmond (Nicholas Strouse) is a lonely teen from Sunnydale, Arizona who believes he is a space alien in this offbeat...
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1988
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This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her...
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Executive Producer
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1987
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Despite its relative failure at the box office, this is a worthwhile thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde....
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Mr. Murray
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1987
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1987
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Completed in 1985, Rankin/Bass' feature-length cartoon version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows had its network...
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1987
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This historic interview features a discussion with her associations with Buster Keaton and many others. Viola Dana appeared...
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1986
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A teenage horror film addict is shocked to discover that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire in this delightful mix of...
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Peter Vincent
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1985
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Jessica (Angela Lansbury arrives at the campus of Crenshaw University to receive an honorary degree. Among the faculty...
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1985
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This made-for television version of the Lewis Carroll classic features an all-star cast. ~ Forest Ray, Rovi...
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1985
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This fast-paced, animated action feature zoomed into theaters with characters developed from a popular TV cartoon series. The...
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Nuggit
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1985
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In this made-for-TV spoof, Robin Hood (George Segal) and his merry men must attempt to gather together the necessary ransom...
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1984
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In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer....
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1983
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Ann Jillian plays the title character in this made-for-TV film, based on the facts but with several liberties taken as well....
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Rene Valentine
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1982
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Directed in 1982 by Gene Feldman, this acclaimed documentary examines the emotional price child actors pay for being...
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Narrator
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1982
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Louie
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1982
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The expensive face of the title belongs to Sylvia Kristel, who actually levies a price of $2.5 million upon the fictional...
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1981
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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes was cobbled together from two 1974 episodes of the TV series...
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1981
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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1981
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After 20th Century-Fox's "Planet of the Apes" film series had run its theatrical course, the next logical step seemed to be a...
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1981
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Not an entry in the Planet of the Apes theatrical-movie series, Farewell to the Planet of the Apes is made up of two episodes...
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1981
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A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to...
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Terry Corrigan
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1981
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1981
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The second of Rankin/Bass' animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to...
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1980
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Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from his clumsy grandson...
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1980
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Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV...
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1980
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In this 3 1/2-hour TV miniseries, adapted from the book by Ray Bradbury, space pioneers must travel from earth to the red...
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1980
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When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives...
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1979
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Set to Tchaikovsky's score, this Japanese animated effort chronicles the adventures of a young girl dreaming of a magical...
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1979
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An ambitious sci-fier from the Disney folks, The Black Hole takes place in the future. A quintet of space travelers stumble...
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1979
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Originally telecast September 25, 1979, Hart to Hart was the pilot film for a series which officially debuted three days...
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1979
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In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he...
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1978
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This made-for-TV fantasy is a tale from the well-known Arabian Nights fable featuring a flying carpet, a prince, a pretty...
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Hasan
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1978
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Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta...
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1978
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Billy (Kim Milford) has the same problems that many teens have to endure. His mother is inattentive, local cops target him...
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1978
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Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to...
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Mr. Stallwood
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1978
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This symbol-laden drama explores the inner mythology of martial arts practice and is based on a Bruce Lee story idea. The...
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White Robe
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1978
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Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant local "character" John Doe...
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Skateboard
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1977
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One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum...
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1977
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Having already exhausted the dramatic possibilities of fire with The Towering Inferno, producer Irwin Allen turns to water in...
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1976
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In this thriller, a scientist (Rock Hudson) attempts to engineer the perfect woman in a test-tube and ends up not with a...
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Riley
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1976
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Based on the Rudyard Kipling story, this film follows the story of a young white seal who grows up to become the savior of...
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1975
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Bobby
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1975
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A Vietnam War veteran (Fred Williamson) is discharged from the Army, and becomes involved with mobsters when he is unable to...
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Tony Da Vinci
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1975
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Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock car...
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1974
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An all-star "disaster" flick set in an elevator: is there no limit? This made-for-TVer top-bills James Farentino as a bank...
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1974
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1974
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The Arnold of Arnold, like the Harry of The Trouble With Harry, is stone cold dead from the outset of this film. That doesn't...
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1973
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The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based upon author Pierre Boulle's imaginative novel Monkey...
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Caesar
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1973
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Richard Matheson adapted the screenplay of The Legend of Hell House from his own novel. In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's...
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Ben Fischer
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1973
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1973
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1973
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Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon...
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1972
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After two and a half seasons in its familiar Saturday-evening network berth, Mission:Impossible moved to Fridays on December...
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Leo Ostro
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1972
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The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius...
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Caesar
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1972
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The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve....
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Acres
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1972
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In this comedy drama, an ingenious young woman from the Bronx impersonates a socialite so she can con a confused old man out...
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1971
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In this airborne disaster movie, a passenger and a flight attendant are forced to fly a commercial jet when the passengers...
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1971
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1971
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Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual...
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Proffer
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1971
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This episode reunites Ironside star Raymond Burr with his former Perry Mason costar Barbara Hale. Chief Ironside (Burr) comes...
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1971
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned...
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Mr. Jelk
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1971
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In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers...
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Director
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1971
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Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created...
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Cornelius
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1971
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A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for...
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1969
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When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project,...
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Nate Ashbury
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1969
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In the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV "occult" anthology, series creator Rod Serling hosts three macabre short...
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1969
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Tara Nicole (Holly Near) is an 18-year-old girl from a wealthy family. She rebels against her parents by taking up with a...
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Santoro
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1969
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Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum play deadly adversaries in this curious mixture of the western and mystery genres. During a...
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Nick Evers
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1968
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Originally intended as a project for Blake Edwards, the film version of Pierre Boule's semisatiric sci-fi novel came to the...
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Cornelius
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1968
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Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~...
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1967
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This musical comedy pokes fun at the music industry as it tells of the romantic travails of two popular singers thrust...
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Tony
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1967
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The Cricket on the Hearth is based on one of Charles Dickens' lesser-known Christmas stories. Bertha, the toymaker's...
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1967
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This silly twist on the silent classic Der Golem stars Roddy McDowall as Arthur Pimm, assistant museum curator and would-be...
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Arthur Pimm
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1966
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An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in...
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Alan "Mollymauk" Musgrave
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1966
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Bullwhip Griffin
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1966
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Montgomery Clift made his last screen appearance in this French-produced Cold War thriller, completed shortly before his...
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C.I.A. Agent Adam
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1966
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This quirky melodrama opens with an automobile crash. The driver, Steve Mallory (George Peppard), comes out of...
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Oliver Parsons
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1965
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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1965
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Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) goes from teenage girl to movie star practically overnight when her demented mother enters her...
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Walter Baines
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1965
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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Gregory Benson
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1965
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Marching into an open field, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his men are greeted with a barrage of machine-gun fire by a wounded GI...
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1964
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In this offbeat melodrama, a crazed gardener is relegated to a mental hospital after he goes berserk and beheads his wealthy...
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Martin Ashly
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1964
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Set in England, The Fatal Mistake stars Arthur Hill as a respectable accountant and family man. Every month on the dot, Hill...
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1964
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Elderly eccentric Emmy Rice (Ruth McDevitt) is charmed by the attentions of her much-younger gentleman caller, a fellow named...
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Gerald Musgrove
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1964
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While traveling by train to a clandestine meeting with his married mistress, London stockbroker George (Roddy McDowall)...
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George
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1964
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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Octavian
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1963
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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1961
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Having scoffed at his colleague Warren Marcusson's (Paul Comi) assertion that "People are alike all over the universe,"...
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Sam Conrad
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1960
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Kit (Doris Day), an American married to wealthy London businessman Tony Preston (Rex Harrison) becomes the terrified victim...
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Malcolm
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1960
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William Shakespeare's last completed play The Tempest was pared down to 90 minutes for this full-color TV adaptation....
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1960
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Yuri Gligoric
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1960
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1958
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Erik
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1952
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Filmed in color, the 60-minute Hill Number One was an episode of the TV religious anthology Family Theatre. Father Patrick...
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1951
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Big Timber was another in a series of medium-budget dramas co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall for Monogram. McDowall himself...
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Jimmy
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1950
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Killer Shark was another of actor Roddy McDowall's self-produced film efforts for Monogram release. McDowall stars as Ted,...
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Ted
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1950
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By the standards of low-budget Lippert Productions, Everybody's Dancin' is an "A" picture. Country-western favorite...
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1950
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Roddy McDowall was both star and co-producer of the compact actioner Tuna Clipper. Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec...
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Alec
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1949
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Black Midnight was the fourth of six Monogram films co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall. The film stars McDowall as Scott...
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Scott Jordan
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1949
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For his first independent production, former child star Roddy McDowall selected the tried-and-true Robert Louis Stevenson...
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David Balfour
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1948
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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Malcolm
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1948
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In this children's move, a teenager and his loyal dog wander the wild West. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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1946
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Ken McLaughlin
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1945
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A servant with no experience ends up teaching the master of the house a thing or two in this comedy. Molly Barry...
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Jimmy Graham
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1945
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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John Ashwood II, as a Boy
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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Francis Chisholm (younger)
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1944
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An utterly enchanting Technicolor filmization of Mary O'Hara's novel, My Friend Flicka is the story of a beautiful colt and...
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Ken McLaughlin
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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Joe Carraclough
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1943
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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Ronnie Cavanaugh
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1942
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Benjamin as a Boy
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1942
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Roddy McDowall stars Hugh Aylesworth, as a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London blitz. Hugh...
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Hugh Aylesworth
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1942
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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Huw Morgan
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1941
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The pageantlike This England was designed by the Anglo-American film corporation to boost the morale of the war-besieged...
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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Albert Perkins
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1941
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You Will Remember is based on the life of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Barrett in 1864), here played...
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1941
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A hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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Vaner The Cabin Boy
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1941
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1940
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A mischievous urchin enlists the aide of his buddies to help get his father elected to the city council. Unfortunately, the...
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1939
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1939
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A case of mistaken identity is the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a rich entrepreneur is accused of being the...
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1939
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The Outsider was a remake of the 1931 British film of the same name; both films were based on a popular play by Dorothy...
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1939
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In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning...
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1939
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Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the...
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1938
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Set in the 18th century, this melodramatic British costume drama offers the rags-to-riches tale of an honest, ethical man. A...
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1938
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This British comedy pokes fun at Chicago gangsters as it chronicles the rivalry between to gangs battling it out aboard an...
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1938
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In this comedy, an aged spinster leaves her communist nephew $20,000. Before she died, he and she constantly argued about...
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1938
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In this mystery, a nephew is accused of murdering his aunt who had just refused to loan him some money. Unfortunately, he is...
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1938
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This children's tearjerker tells the tender story of an orphan boy and his beloved dog. The trouble begins when a rich woman...
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1938
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