Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he...
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Big Lou Kritski
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1991
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Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story is a made-for-cable dramatization of the tale of Pan Am flight 103, a plane that...
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Harry Pizer
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1991
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Barney
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1989
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In this picaresque period adventure comedy, the roguish almost-gentleman Paolo (Paolo Hendel) of 1832 Naples accompanies his...
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1989
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Michael Aylott
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1989
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When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed...
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Cosmo Castorini
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1987
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It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with...
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Mr. Mushnik
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1986
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In this WW II comedy, a band of American soldiers are assigned to defend a bridge. They become terribly bored, so to amuse...
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1986
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Carroll O'Connor stars as NYPD chief of detectives Frank Nolan in Brass. The script, pseudonymously cowritten by O'Connor and...
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Chief Mike Maldonato
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1985
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The "movers and shakers" in this weak comedy limned by Charles Grodin do not refer to a religious sect, but the big-wigs in...
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Saul Gritz
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1985
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The original 1946 Dark Mirror starred Olivia de Havilland as twin sisters, one of whom has committed a murder. Since each...
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Detective Al Church
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1984
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1983
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The 1,000-day presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the early '60s is depicted from the glorious beginning to the tragic...
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J. Edgar Hoover
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1983
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Frank Ochoa
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1982
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Made for television, this film chronicles the life and work of real-life New York City undercover policewoman Mary Glatzle,...
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1982
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Thornwell was based on a documentary directed by Harry Moses, which formed the nucleus of a 60 Minutes piece. Moses also...
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1981
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1980
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Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour...
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Peter Kessler
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1980
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Set in the Caribbean, Firepower is one of those "celebrity salads," featuring a glittering all-star cast. Sophia Loren heads...
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1979
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All but forgotten in recent years, the made-for-TV Goldie and the Boxer enjoyed a new lease on life when it was resyndicated...
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1979
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This made-for-television biography spans the life of boxer Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight to remain undefeated during...
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1979
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Brian De Palma directed this treatise concerning an egotistical film professor as a film-making project for his...
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Dr. Byrd
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1979
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Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty...
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1978
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Based on the life story of NASCAR auto racing champion Wendell Scott, this film, starring Richard Pryor as Scott, covers his...
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Sheriff Cotton
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1977
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Benny
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1977
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A by-the-books cop struggling to bust a brutal protection racket in Rome is forced to throw the rules out the window when the...
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Pepe
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1976
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This episode was designed as the pilot for a proposed Kojak spinoff, starring Vincent Gardenia) as Lt. Kojak's former NYPD...
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1975
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Detective movies and film-noir are parodied in this comedy that tells the story of a rookie detective who is hired via...
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Big Daddy
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1975
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Sheriff
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1974
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This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate...
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Frank Ochoa
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1974
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The family is planning a 50th birthday party for Archie. The only one unwilling to enter into the festivities is Archie...
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1974
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Hoping to keep Irene Lorenzo from indoctrinating Edith with her "liberated" notions, Archie arranges for Irene to get a job...
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1974
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Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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American Colonel
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1973
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Donning a brunette wig, blonde-tressed Gloria is at first flattered and delighted when Mike is "turned on" by her new look....
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Frank Lorenzo
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1973
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Now that the Lorenzos have moved next door to the Bunkers, Archie has managed to come up with a whole new list of pet peeves....
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1973
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A guaranteed tear-jerker, Bang the Drum Slowly centers on professional baseball player Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro) and his...
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Dutch Schnell
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1973
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Archie and Mike can't understand why the usually ebullient Edith is unable to get into the Christmas spirit. Only when she is...
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1973
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Even under normal circumstances, Archie feels threatened by his intelligent and resourceful neighbor Irene Lorenzo. When...
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1973
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Archie is delighted to learn that his black neighbors, the Jeffersons, are planning to move. During a farewell party at the...
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Frank Lorenzo
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1973
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While Archie is out of the house, the rest of the family joins Lionel and the Lorenzos in playing Mike's new "group therapy"...
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1973
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In this horror movie a murderous husband gets his comeuppance when his dead wife returns to make his life a living hell. ~...
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1973
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Gloria brings home a miniature replica of Rodin's famous sculpture "The Kiss." The erotic nature of the sculpture does not...
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Frank Lorenzo
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1973
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Season four of All in the Family commenced with an object lesson about -- what else? -- racial bigotry. Archie is up in arms...
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Frank Lorenzo
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1973
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The stars of the witty TV series I Spy were reunited for this downbeat crime thriller, which takes a much darker and more...
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1972
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Naïve Edith answers a classified advertisement requesting a pair of "fun pen pals." Before long, the Bunkers are visited by...
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Curtis Rempley
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1972
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This comedy is notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting...
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1971
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Actor Alan Arkin has an impressive film directorial debut with Little Murders, Jules Feiffer's bitter and moving satire...
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Mr. Newquist
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1971
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Archie learns to his horror that a black family is moving across the street. As Edith, Gloria, and Mike listen with varying...
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1971
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Director Carl Reiner, most closely associated with the homey values of situation comedies, shocked, surprised, and (in some...
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1970
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Jenny (Marlo Thomas) is a single expectant mother who receives an offer of marriage from Delano (Alan Alda). He wants to...
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Mr. Marsh
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1969
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Nightclub singer Tommy Cusack (James Farentino) is also a chronic gambler, indebted to a mob loan shark to the tune of...
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1968
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Racketeer Lewis Parma (Vincent Gardenia) intends to take control of the food distribution industry and pose exorbitant...
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1968
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In the second half of the two-part Mission: Impossible adventure "The Council", the IMF's plan to topple a gangland syndicate...
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1967
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Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, "The Council" was the second multipart story of Mission: Impossible's...
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1967
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Using the alias "Gene Tyler", Richard Kimble takes a brief respite from his search for the One-Armed Man by attending a...
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1967
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Peter stumbles onto a plot to kidnap distinguished nuclear scientist Professor Schnitzler (Norbert Schiller). Attempting to...
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1967
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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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1965
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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1962
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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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Dutch Schultz
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1961
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Season Three of The Untouchables begins with a return guest-star appearance by Peter Falk, this time in the role of mob...
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1961
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As The Hustler's "Fast" Eddie Felson, Paul Newman created a classic antihero, charismatic but fundamentally flawed, and...
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1961
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A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the...
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1961
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Directing legend Sidney Lumet, of course, began his career in the Golden Age of American television, with a number of live...
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1960
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This true crime story was hardly "ripped from today's headlines," since the events took place some 20 to 30 years before the...
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1960
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On a boiling hot night in the middle of a steaming New York summer, Detective Mike Reardon is on his way to work when he is...
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1958
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The prestigious CBS dramatic anthology Studio One launched its tenth season on the air with this elaborate dramatization of...
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1957
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Filmed in semi-documentary fashion, House on 92nd Street is a "now it can be told" drama about the smashing of a Nazi spy...
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1945
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Wishful thinking becomes reality when Louis the butcher becomes Louis the salmon in Reading Rainbow: Louis the Fish. The...
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