Director Stephen Kessler sets out to profile the prolific singer/songwriter/actor who seemed ubiquitous in the 1970s and...
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2012
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As a second-generation Greek immigrant whose parents migrated to New York at the turn of the Twentieth century, the late...
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Narrator
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1995
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Lionel Rose was an aborigine who emerged from humble beginnings to be one of the world's greatest prize fighters. This...
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1995
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1995
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1994
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From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late...
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Richard Howland
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1993
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A rich businessman, his wife and son are involved in illegal transactions as Kojak investigates. ~ Rovi...
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Inspector Theo Kojak
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1990
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Assistant D.A. Crocker, Kojak's former partner, is certain that Kojak is the killer of a call girl. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Flowers for Matty was one of a smattering of 2-hour Kojak TV dramas presented on the 1989-90 series...
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Kojak
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1990
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Hallen
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1989
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Kojak is sidetracked by a lovely girl while investigating the activities of a corrupt drug lord. ~ Rovi...
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Inspector Theo Kojak
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1989
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When a man was murdered following his expose on organized crime, Kojak investigates and meets up with a former lover and the...
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1989
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Telly Savalas stars as the washed-up star of a Kojak-like TV series who agrees to investigate a real-life kidnapping case. ~...
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1989
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1989
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1989
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Made for television, this is the third sequel to the popular war adventure. This time, a group of rag-tag soldiers must...
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1988
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The second television film to capitalize on the classic original, The Deadly Mission concerns another team of convicts, this...
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1987
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When a woman is suspected of killing her 2 young sons, New York police inspector Theo Kojak is called in to investigate. ~...
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1987
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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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Magmar
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1985
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Seven years after the cancellation of the CBS TV series Kojak, the network attempted to revive the property with this...
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1985
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This animated Sinbad classic features the voice of Telly Savalas as Sinbad. ~ Rovi...
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1985
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After a seven-year absence from the small screen, NYPD detective Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) made a comeback in the TV-movie...
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1985
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1984
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1984
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A Greek-American businessman returns to his homeland with his teenage American-born son and finds that he has little in...
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1983
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Feeling homesick, a Greek immigrant (Telly Savalas) and his son travel from their American home back to the Greek village...
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1982
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Just as the singing star Bobbie Warren (Pia Zadora) finishes her act, she is clapped into handcuffs by police lieutenant...
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Police Lt. Thurston
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1982
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In his first major TV project since Kojak, Telly Savalas stars as maverick Philadelphia criminal lawyer Nick Hellinger. He...
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1980
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Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind...
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Cretzer
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1980
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Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have...
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1979
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Capt. Stefan Svevo
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1979
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The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
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Zeno
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1979
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Telly Savalas takes time off from his Kojak duties to appear as himself in this first episode of Alice's fourth season. All...
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1979
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The original title of this film was The Border. It tells the story of one border guard's desire to put an end to the...
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Cooper
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1979
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1978
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The final episode of Kojak features an impressive non-comic performance by Danny Thomas) as Howard Brocure, a hard-nosed,...
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Director
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1978
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The fifth and final season of Kojak (the original version, that is) begins with a typically brutal entry, "The Queen of...
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Lt. Theo Kojak
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1977
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Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) faces an inter-departmental crisis when his fellow detective Bobby Crocker (Kevin Dobson)...
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Director
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1977
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Telly Savalas wrote and directed this drama about an unconventional psychologist who battles for his own mental health while...
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Director, Dr. Nicholas Mati
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1977
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Beginning with its fourth season, Kojak was largely filmed on location in New York City, moving production out of its...
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Lt. Theo Kojak
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1976
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After being dissatisfied with {$Mario Bava]'s original cut of Lisa and the Devil, producer Alfredo Leone decided to...
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1975
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Peter Fonda stars as a diamond mine security officer who fakes a robbery in order to gain the respect of the group of...
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Webb
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1975
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Harry Morgan
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1975
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While off duty, Kojak (Telly Savalas) breaks up a barroom brawl instigated by Mike Viggers Jr. (Michael Cristofer), the...
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Director
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1975
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Question of Answers was the 2-hour, third-season opener of the TV series Kojak. Lieutenant Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is on...
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1975
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In her first TV-series appearance, stage and screen star Ruth Gordon is cast as spiritualist Eudora Temple, who has had...
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Director
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1975
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In this drama, the New York State County Chairwoman must use all her prestige and influence to get her grandson acquitted of...
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1975
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Question: "Who loves ya, baby?" Answer: "The whole world." By the time the gritty detective drama Kojak entered its third...
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Lt. Theo Kojak
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1975
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Bald, cynical, lollipop-sucking New York police detective Lt. Theo Kojak returns in the person of Telly Savalas for a second...
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Lt. Theo Kojak
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1974
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Having relinquished Fort Holman to the Confederacy without a shot being fired, Col. Pembroke (James Coburn) is in danger of a...
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Maj. Ward
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1974
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Chinatown Murders was the opening episode for the second season of the TV series Kojak. As indicated by the title, the scene...
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1974
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Series star Telly Savalas makes his directorial debut in this episode, which features a surprising characterization by the...
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Director
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1974
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A pair of crazed and violent fleeing criminals kidnap a young boy and hold him hostage as they try to escape the law. ~ Rovi...
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1973
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A roman a clef depicting the Wylie-Hoffert murders, this is the first of the made for TV movies introducing the Kojak...
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1973
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Lt. Theo Kojak
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1973
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The character of tough, sarcastic, lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Theo Kojak was introduced in...
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Theo Kojak
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1973
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In this murder mystery, a young model saw the crime, but is unable to get the authorities to believe her. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1973
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Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he...
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1972
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Alberto De Martino (L'anticristo) directed this standard Italian giallo thriller, the story of an actress named Eleanor...
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1972
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Monte Markham plays a professor of psychic phenomena who is himself "blessed" with ESP. When Monte picks up vibes about a...
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1972
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A college professor (Monte Markham) with the power of clairvoyance alerts the police that someone is about to plant a...
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1972
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In this chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, Elke Sommer stars as Lisa, a young tourist who keeps running into a strange...
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1972
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This biopic chronicles the exciting and colorful life of Mexico's most illustrious revolutionary/bandit. A thrilling train...
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1972
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A cocky young hoodlum may have gotten in over his head as he reaches for the top in this crime drama. Antonio Mancuso...
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Don Vincenzo
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1972
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This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a...
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Capt. Kazan
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1972
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This crime drama from the 1970s examines the experiences of a Vietnam vet who gets involved with illegal drugs. In time he...
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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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Capt. Sam Surcher
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1971
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A priest--a former revolutionary--finds himself the target of a manhunt in a small Mexican town. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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Don Carlos
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1971
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This Italian crime melodrama was originally released as Citta Violenta. Charles Bronson stars as Jeff, an ex-convict living...
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Weber
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1970
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Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a...
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Big Joe
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1970
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Vince Carden (Telly Savalas) is the violent Apache-hating landowner obsessed with driving the Indians from the region in this...
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Vince Carden
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1969
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Mackenna's Gold is a colorful, action-packed western feature with an all-star cast. Mackenna (Gregory Peck) has committed to...
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Sgt. Tibbs
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1969
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Herbie Hassler (Telly Savalas) and Marty Miller (Warren Oates) are American gangsters who plan to rob an opulent aristocratic...
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Herbie Hassler
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1969
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The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl...
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Lord Bostwick
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1969
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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her...
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Blofeld
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1969
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Walter Braddock
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1968
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Sol Madrid isn't a western, as might be gathered, but a drug-ring melodrama. David McCallum shows up early in the film as a...
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Emil Dietrich
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1968
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1968
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For his third feature outing, director Sydney Pollack helmed this comedic western starring (Burt Lancaster) as fur trapper...
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Jim Howie
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1968
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The Man from UNCLE comes to the big screen in this spy thriller comprised of episodes from the popular television series....
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1967
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In the first episode of a two-part story, the FBI squares off against La Cosa Nostra (evidently J. Edgar Hoover had finally...
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1967
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, the FBI continues to exert pressure on La Cosa Nostra, even while a bitter turf war...
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1967
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1967
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1967
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Telly Savalas guest stars as Jon Marton, a shell-shocked French guerilla fighter whose family has been killed. In his...
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1966
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Christopher Wren's classic adventure story is brought to the screen for the third time in this version, which featured...
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Sgt. Major Dagineau
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1966
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Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of...
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Ed Clementi
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1966
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Posing as "Frank Whistler", Kimble (David Janssen) hitches a ride with a small-town minister--only to be involved in a car...
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1966
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Telly Savalas guest-stars as Charles Hackett, the richest man in the world. Accustomed to getting what he wants, Hackett now...
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Charles Hackett
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1965
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In December of 1944, the Allied high command is convinced that German forces in Belgium are in a low state of readiness, and...
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Guffy
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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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Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported...
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Dr. Coburn
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1965
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The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody....
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1965
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Trapped in a stable by heavy enemy gunfire, Hanley (Rick Jason) and his men are rescued by a rowdy band of Greek partisans...
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1964
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Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik....
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1964
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Telly Savalas makes a return guest appearance to The Fugitive, this time in the role of Victor Leonetti. Having always held...
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1964
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Social-climbing car thief Philadelphia Harry (Telly Savalas) thinks he's finally hit the big time when he steals a Rolls...
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Philadelphia Harry
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1964
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Two years after the success of The Interns (1962) came this follow-up tale of medical interns during their first year working...
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Dr. Riccio
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1964
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Erich Streator
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1963
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Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing...
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Foots Pularcios
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1963
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In this light romantic comedy Charles Boyer plays the enigmatic Mr. Pimm, a man with a Cupid complex who grooms men to be...
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Dr. Gump
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1963
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When the producers of The Untouchables bowed to the pressure of the Italian-American Anti-Defamation league and began...
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1963
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In this offbeat crime drama, Mafia boss Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence) has run afoul of the law and is being deported back to...
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Mr. Santangelo
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1963
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Using the alias "Jerry Shelton", Kimble (David Janssen) goes to work as lifeguard at the Nevada gambling resort run by a...
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1963
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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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1962
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In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that...
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Feto Gomez
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1962
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Using a technique that involves the kind of ensemble acting seen in later long-running, large-cast television programs,...
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1962
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Now that the U.S. Government has come up with a method to denature industrial alcohol so that it cannot be used in the...
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1961
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With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) raiding the Syndicate's distilleries left and right, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) is forced to...
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1961
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The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile...
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1961
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1961
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This gangland crime story about the life and death of mobster Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (John Chandler) is most notable for the...
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Lieutenant Dawson
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1961
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