For good or ill, there's no arguing that few magazines have had as great an impact on American culture as Playboy, which...
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2010
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2009
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This documentary takes a look at the phenomenon of crossdressing in film - an idea that consistently evokes strong reactions...
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2009
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A forbidden romance threatens deadly consequences for a young Israeli Jew and a beautiful Palestinian Muslim who risk their...
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2008
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After learning of the 100,000-plus horses slaughtered annually, lifelong equestrian enthusiast Jill Curtis would go on to...
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2008
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2004
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Award-winning vocalist Melba Moore wraps her beautiful voice around a set of great standards, jazz melodies, and pop tunes in...
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2001
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Roger Moore won many audiences over with his ability to play the James Bond character with a touch of humor. He has played...
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2000
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1999
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Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned,...
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1999
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Lenny Star Springer
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1998
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Seventy one year old Tony Curtis headlines this comedy drama as Jack Curtis, who played the title former superhero twenty...
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1996
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1996
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This direct descendant of Reservoir Dogs revolves around not one bungled heist, but several. A colorful band of criminals...
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1995
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream...
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Interviewee
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1995
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1994
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Although it claims to be "suggested by an Edgar Allen Poe" story, this British production is basically a remake of Karl...
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Aziru,Dr. Mohassid
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1993
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Find out how celebrity parties and dinners differ from those attended by most people. Hosts Bernard Erpicum of Spago and...
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1993
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Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark...
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1993
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The sponsorship of noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese helped the novice filmmakers making this film get it produced and receive...
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Carl Fisher
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1993
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1992
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In this thriller that begins with a case of mistaken identity, a man is abducted and thrown into a mysterious car; he is...
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Stephen Moore
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1992
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In this violent actioner, renegade cop John Bloodstone is put on suspension after he used a blow torch to stop bank robbers....
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Marrietta Copella
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1991
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Archimedes Porter
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1989
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In this black comedy, a wealthy but flaky family tries to deal with their lives after their bizarre father suffers a fatal...
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1989
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Wally La Rouge
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1989
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This farcical send-up of the movie business borrows a plot from the classic 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers. It stars...
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J.P. Shelldrake
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1989
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A TV horror-movie hostess (Lynn Redgrave) is threatened when people close to her turn up dead. The standard version of the...
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Mr. B
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1989
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An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish...
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Cornfield
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1988
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This surreal drama, based on a novel by John Franklin, is dominated by symbolism and mystery intended to work on several...
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Charles Foster
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1986
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Based on the story of Antoinette Giancana, Susan Lucci plays a mobster's daughter who is trying to learn the truth of her...
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Salvatore "Sam" Giancana
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1986
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Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts represents Peter Ustinov's fifth appearance as Dame Agatha's brilliant, insufferable...
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Charles Cartwright
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1986
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Billy Wilder. Included are excerpts from the...
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1986
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King of the City died on the vine when it was released under its original title in 1985; conditions hardly improved when it...
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Hector
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1985
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Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature...
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Senator
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1985
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The works of "Puppetoon" creator and special effects wizard George Pal are perhaps best seen separately and in toto rather...
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1985
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Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a hypochondriac who has invented a...
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Parsifal Katzenellenbogen
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1984
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When his wife Suzanna Love is seriously injured in a car accident, Keir Dullea agrees to a radical and revolutionary surgical...
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Dr. Clavius
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1982
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The daily travails of a Vegas chorus girl provide the fodder for this made-for-television drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1982
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This is a soap opera about a rich, suave, but self-aggrandizing villain and the women who either love or hate him. The...
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Ernie Stoddard
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1982
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Producer, writer, director, and lead actor Max Boulois gives credit to William Shakespeare in the credits to this film, but...
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Iago
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1982
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This ABC TV movie is set in an experimental coed prison, presided over by progressive warden E.F. Crown (Shirley Jones). The...
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1981
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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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Based on a portion of Garson Kanin's book Moviola, The Scarlet O'Hara War mixes fact with fiction in recreating producer...
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David O. Selznick
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1980
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1980
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Blackie
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1980
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1979
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Weak dialogue and a muddy plot undermine this crime drama about the Mafia's attempt to not only fix a championship fight, but...
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Frank Renzetti
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1979
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Two weapons dealers are ambushed in Africa, but their luck changes when a wealthy widow hires them. She blames the natives...
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Robert Talbot
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1978
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Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she...
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Alexei Karansky
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1978
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Harry Erskine
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1978
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In this film, the whereabouts of a runaway teenage girl are sought by a Las Vegas detective (Robert Urich), whose...
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1978
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In this made-for-TV drama, a girl living in a small-town carefully hides her sordid past. She then meets a faded movie star...
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1978
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Filling the shoes occupied by Walter Matthau in the Bad News Bears and William Devane in The Bad News Bears in Breaking...
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Marvin Lazar
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1978
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In a way, the title of Some Like It Cool was a piquant comment on the career of star Tony Curtis, whose stardom had chilled...
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Giacomo Casanova
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1977
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1977
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Rodriguez
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1976
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Mission: Monte Carlo is a "movie" comprised of two episodes from the 1971 British/US TV series The Persuaders - which...
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1976
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The Persuaders were a pair of globe-trotting, sophisticated playboys who solved crimes of passion and espionage every week...
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1976
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1976
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Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke"...
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Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
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1975
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Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in...
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1975
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1975
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Mondego
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1974
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In this theatrically released episode from the TV series based on the popular feature film, Shaft, the tough New York...
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1973
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The Third Girl From the Left might have passed without notice had the film not been the highly touted TV-movie debuts of Kim...
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Singer
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1973
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1971
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As the Ottoman Empire collapses throughout Turkey in 1922, a number of adventurers from all over the world sign on to protect...
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Adam
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1970
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War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a...
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Shannon Gambroni
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1970
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This slapstick comedy concerns the annual auto race in Monte Carlo and boasts an international cast of all-star thespians....
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Chester Schofield
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1969
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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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Albert De Salvo
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1968
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her...
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1968
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This romantic and sometimes ribald historical farce finds nobleman Guerrando (Tony Curtis) knighted in the days before the...
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Guerrando
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1967
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British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield...
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Carlo Cofield
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1967
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1966
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This uneven black comedy went into production as My Last Duchess. It then went through three title changes, representing, in...
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Nick Johnson
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1966
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In the words of Hamlet, there's a plentiful lack of wit in Not with My Wife, You Don't! Korean war vet Tony Curtis is living...
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Tom Ferris
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1966
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Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white...
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The Great Leslie
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1965
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Movie star Tony Curtis becomes the latest in a series of celebrities to provide the voice for his animated likeness in this...
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1965
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Bernard Lawrence
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1965
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1964
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George Tracy
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1964
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In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle...
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Terry Williams
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1964
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Bob Weston
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1964
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Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a...
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Cpl. Jackson Laibowitz
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1963
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Damon Runyon's story "Little Miss Marker" gets a mid-'60s update in this comedy. Steve McCluskey (Tony Curtis) is the manager...
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Steve McCluskey
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1963
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1963
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The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are...
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Andrei Bulba
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1962
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This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima....
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Ira Hamilton Hayes
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1961
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The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis. Unable...
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Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr.
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1961
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband...
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David Wilson
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1960
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Peter Hammond, Jr.
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1960
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1960
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Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces...
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Lt. Nick Holden
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1959
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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Joe/Josephine
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1959
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In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle...
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Cpl. Paul Hodges
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1958
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John "Joker" Jackson
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1958
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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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Eric
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1958
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George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a...
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1958
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Britt Harris
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1958
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Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About...
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Sidney Falco
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1957
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Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards....
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Cory
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1957
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In this tense murder mystery, a San Francisco traffic officer vows to find the killer of the kindly priest who raised him....
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Joe Martini
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1957
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a...
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Tino Orsini
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1956
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In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for...
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Ben Matthews
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1956
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Tony Curtis was by 1955 an accomplished enough actor to get through the costumed derring-do of The Purple Mask minus the...
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Rene de Traviere
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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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Jerry Florea
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1955
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The splendid physique of Tony Curtis is given generous screen exposure in the boxing melodrama The Square Jungle. Curtis...
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Eddie Quaid (Packy Glennon)
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1955
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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Myles Falworth
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1954
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Set in the Philippines during WWII, this suspenseful and realistic war drama chronicles the courage of a unit of US Marines...
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Burke
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1954
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Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his "radical"...
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Johnny Dark
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1954
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Tony Curtis makes his musical-comedy debut in the frolicsome Universal production So This is Paris. Curtis, Gene Nelson and...
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Joe Maxwell
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1954
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Eddie Darrow
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1953
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This highly fanciful but immensely entertaining biopic stars Tony Curtis as legendary magician/escape-artist Harry Houdini....
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Harry Houdini
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1953
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Nick Bonelli
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1953
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In this boxing drama, a deaf-mute prizefighter whose career is on the rise falls in love with a gold digging singer who only...
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Paul Callan
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1952
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Pity poor ex-GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis). While on his honeymoon with perky Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie), he comes down...
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Alvah Morrell
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1952
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In this swashbuckling adventure-satire, Kashma Baba's famous father Ali, sends the reluctant youth to military school to...
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Kashma Baba
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1952
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Julna
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1951
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1950
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1950
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Having previously played Billy the Kid, Audie Murphy assumes the role of Jesse James in Kansas Raiders. The plot finds Jesse...
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Kit Dalton
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1950
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The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a...
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1950
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1949
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In Johnny Stool Pigeon, the title character's name is really Johnny Evans (Dan Duryea). Evans is an imprisoned crook whose...
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1949
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William Powell stars in Take One False Step as a happily married college professor who foolishly agrees to a reunion supper...
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1949
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Mitch
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1949
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One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by...
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1949
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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1948
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Some observers have suggested that Meet Danny Wilson could just as well have been titled Meet Frank Sinatra. A star vehicle...
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