Diane Keaton directed and starred in this comedy/drama about a family brought together by potential tragedy. In her mid-40s,...
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Lou Mozell
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2000
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Hank Greenberg was the first great Jewish star in baseball; at a time when the game was still racially segregated, Greenberg...
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2000
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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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Oscar Madison
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1998
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Frank Walsh
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1998
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A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his...
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Charlie
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1997
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Nat Moyer
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1996
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In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with...
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Max Goldman
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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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Judge Charlie Cool
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1995
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Legendary scientist Albert Einstein (played here by Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up...
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Albert Einstein
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1994
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Harmon Cobb
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1994
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John Hughes continues the trend he began with the Home Alone series in Dennis the Menace, the Hughes-scripted film version of...
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Mr. Wilson
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1993
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This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly...
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Max Goldman
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1993
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In a sequel to the superior movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer goes against the State of Maryland, suing on...
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Harmon Cobb
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1992
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1991
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A foster home-bound 9-year-old and his aging grandmother run from the authorities in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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Harmon Cobb
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1989
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Father Maurice (Walter Matthau) is called on to perform an exorcism of a demon from a fat lady in this offbeat comedy. What...
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Father Maurice
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1988
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Donald Becker
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1988
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Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to to career of Jack Lemmon. Included are excerpts from:...
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1988
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Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a...
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Capt. Thomas Bartholomew Red
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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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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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Joe Mulholland
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1985
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Sonny Paluso
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1983
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Neil Simon based his screenplay for I Ought to Be in Pictures on one of his more serious theatrical pieces. Walter Matthau is...
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Herbert Tucker
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1982
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The election of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court rendered the premise of First Monday in October anachronistic before...
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Dan Snow
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1981
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As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets...
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Trabucco
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1981
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Executive Producer, Producer, Sorrowful Jones
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1980
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Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the...
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Miles Kendig
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1980
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1980
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Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to...
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Marvin Michaels
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1978
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At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same...
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1978
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Recently widowed Dr. Nichols (Walter Matthau) finds himself ill at ease in re-entering the singles scene. Then he meets Ann...
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Dr. Charley Nichols
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1978
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Cajun quarter-horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) struggles to eke out a decent living for himself and his three...
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Lloyd Bourdelle
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1978
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A video collection of scenes from film comedies from the early talkies to the movies of the '50s, including scenes with the...
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1978
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Host
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1978
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Walter Matthau gives voice to Scrooge in this animated version of A Christmas Carol. Other noted voices include Tom Bosley,...
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1978
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The success this underdog comedy from director Michael Ritchie almost single-handedly spawned the kids' sports film boom of...
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Coach Morris Buttermaker
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1976
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Gentleman Tramp utilizes clearer-than-usual vintage filmclips to trace the life and career of comedy giant Charlie Chaplin....
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1975
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In this 1975 adaptation of Neil Simon's stage play, director Herbert Ross presents the story of two old-time Vaudvillians...
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Willy Clark
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1975
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On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue subway line, the train designated "Pelham One Two Three" -- so...
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Lieutenant Garber
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1974
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Walter Burns
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1974
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Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to...
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1974
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Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a...
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Charley Varrick
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1973
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Jake Martin
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1973
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Pete
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1972
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1972
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Elaine May wrote and directed (credits May attempted to have removed after the studio made extensive cuts in the film) this...
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Henry Graham
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1971
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It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite...
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Jesse,Roy,Sam
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1971
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For his only directorial effort, Jack Lemmon selected his old friend and habitual co-star Walter Matthau to play the central...
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Joseph P. Kotcher
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1971
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1970
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Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her...
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Horace Vandergelder
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1969
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Goldie Hawn won an Oscar for her performance as a Greenwich Village free spirit in Cactus Flower. Middle-aged dentist Winston...
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Julian Winston
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1969
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Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly...
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Oscar Madison
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1968
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This light romantic comedy finds Victoria (Anne Jackson) the 34-year-old wife of public-relations man Tom Layton...
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The Movie Star
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1968
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In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green...
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1968
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Paul Manning
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1967
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A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only...
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Ted Caselle
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1966
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The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the...
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Willie Gingrich
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1966
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1964
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1964
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The crew of the USS Reluctant is at it again in this comedy sequel to Mister Roberts. The story opens toward the end of WWII...
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Doc
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1964
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Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command...
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Groeteschele
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1964
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Hamilton Bartholomew
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1963
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In this different type of gangster farce with a few flaws here and there, Robert Preston is Steve Blair, a superlative con...
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Tony Dallas
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1963
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Lawyer Dean Martin's gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Lana Turner. To keep the money in the...
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Tony Gagoots
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1963
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1962
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Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art...
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Sheriff Johnson
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1962
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1961
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Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine melodrama involving two neighboring couples....
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Felix Anders
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1960
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In love with Harry Wade (Walter Matthau), the impressionable Helen (Betty Field) is willing to do anything to protect her man...
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1960
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1960
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Would-be gangland assassin Art (Robert Vaughn) is given a test by his boss, Barbossa (David White) -- a test that will prove...
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1959
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Actor Walter Matthau directed his first and only feature film with the black-and-white crime drama Gangster Story. In an...
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Director, Jack Martin
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1959
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1958
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In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of...
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"Red" Wildoe
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1958
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Audie Murphy heads the cast of the better-than-usual oater Ride a Crooked Trail. It all begins when gunslinger Joe Maybe...
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Judge Kyle
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1958
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In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the...
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Dr. Leon Karnes
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1958
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Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is...
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Maxie Fields
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1958
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Original drawings from the book by Dr. Seuss make up this reading of the children's novel by rough-voiced actor Walter...
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Narrator
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1957
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Andy Griffith makes a spectacular film debut in this searing drama as Lonesome Rhodes, a philosophical country-western singer...
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Mel Miller
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1957
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Though Slaughter on Tenth Avenue's background music relies heavily on the Richard Rodgers composition of the same name, the...
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Al Dahlke
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1957
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Based on an article in the New Yorker, Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life stars James Mason (who also produced the film) as...
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Wally Gibbs
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1956
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of...
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Bodine
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1955
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The Indian Fighter is trail guide Kirk Douglas, who agrees to shepherd a wagon train through Sioux territory. Douglas tries...
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Wes Todd
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1955
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1953
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In this sobering film, a family living 50 miles outside of New York must escape the fallout from a nuclear bomb dropped upon...
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1950
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