Jan Merlin
Biography: Character actor, screenwriter, and author. He had recurring roles on Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1951-54) and The Rough Riders (1958-59). Merlin won a Daytime Emmy for writing Another World.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 03, 1925
Deathday: September 20, 2019
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Time Trackers
1989-05-01
Time Trackers
Overview: When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Six Bridges to Cross
1955-01-21
Six Bridges to Cross
Overview: Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967-06-30
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Overview: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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False Identity
1990-06-08
False Identity
Overview: When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-08
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The Hindenburg
1975-12-25
The Hindenburg
Overview: Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Illegal
1955-10-09
Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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Twilight People
1972-06-01
Twilight People
Overview: A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-01
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Big House, U.S.A
1955-03-03
Big House, U.S.A
Overview: A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-03
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
1963-11-06
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Overview: Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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Guns of Diablo
1964-10-04
Guns of Diablo
Overview: 14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria (Susan Oliver), who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin (Jan Merlin). The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Covenant
1985-08-05
Covenant
Overview: A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group named The Judges bands together to try to stop them.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Cole Younger, Gunfighter
1958-03-30
Cole Younger, Gunfighter
Overview: An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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A Day of Fury
1956-05-02
A Day of Fury
Overview: Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Hell Bent for Leather
1960-02-01
Hell Bent for Leather
Overview: When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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A Strange Adventure
1956-08-24
A Strange Adventure
Overview: A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-24
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Screaming Eagles
1956-05-27
Screaming Eagles
Overview: A group of young soldiers parachute into France in preparation for D-Day.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-27
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Silk 2
1990-08-22
Silk 2
Overview: Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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The Peacemaker
1956-11-01
The Peacemaker
Overview: A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Running Wild
1955-11-11
Running Wild
Overview: To get evidence against a crooked garage owner, a rookie cop masquerades as a hard case who wants a job as a mechanic.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-11
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I Escaped from Devil's Island
1973-09-01
I Escaped from Devil's Island
Overview: In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Strategy of Terror
1969-01-01
Strategy of Terror
Overview: A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre episodes.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Nowhere to Run
1989-03-01
Nowhere to Run
Overview: Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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Take the Money and Run
1969-08-18
Take the Money and Run
Overview: Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-18
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A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
1992-11-16
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story
Overview: A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-16
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Flight to Nowhere
1946-09-30
Flight to Nowhere
Overview: A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Buried Alive
1990-05-09
Buried Alive
Overview: A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-09
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Woman and the Hunter
1957-01-13
Woman and the Hunter
Overview: When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-13
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Aliens From Another Planet
1982-03-10
Aliens From Another Planet
Overview: A senator is sent to inspect a project that can send people into the future or past & decide if it is feasible to continue. One of the scientists working on it, decides to go through it anyway... This is a compilation of three episodes of the 1960's TV series, "The Time Tunnel".
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-10
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The Slams
1973-09-26
The Slams
Overview: Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-26
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Permanent Record
1988-04-22
Permanent Record
Overview: David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and bandmate, Chris, with a lot of questions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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