Gary Merrill
Biography: Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Merrill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 02, 1915
Deathday: March 05, 1990
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All About Eve
1950-11-09
All About Eve
Overview: From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Night Without Sleep
1952-09-26
Night Without Sleep
Overview: Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Decision Before Dawn
1951-12-21
Decision Before Dawn
Overview: WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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The Wonderful Country
1959-10-21
The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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A Blueprint for Murder
1953-07-24
A Blueprint for Murder
Overview: Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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Slattery's Hurricane
1949-08-11
Slattery's Hurricane
Overview: A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-11
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Destination Inner Space
1966-05-01
Destination Inner Space
Overview: A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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The Human Jungle
1954-10-03
The Human Jungle
Overview: Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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Witness to Murder
1954-04-15
Witness to Murder
Overview: A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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Twelve O'Clock High
1949-12-21
Twelve O'Clock High
Overview: In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-21
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The Frogmen
1951-01-25
The Frogmen
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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The Great Impostor
1960-12-23
The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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The Power
1968-02-21
The Power
Overview: One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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The Incident
1967-11-05
The Incident
Overview: Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-05
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950-07-07
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Overview: A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Mysterious Island
1961-12-19
Mysterious Island
Overview: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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The Savage Eye
1960-06-06
The Savage Eye
Overview: Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights wandering through her new city, cynically remarking on the hypocrisy, vanity and brutality of the modern world and humanity's alienation from themselves and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-06
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Another Man's Poison
1951-11-20
Another Man's Poison
Overview: Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Phone Call from a Stranger
1952-02-01
Phone Call from a Stranger
Overview: Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Crash Landing
1958-07-01
Crash Landing
Overview: Airplane passengers prepare for a crash landing in the ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Earth II
1971-11-28
Earth II
Overview: In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-28
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The Last Challenge
1967-12-22
The Last Challenge
Overview: An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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The Pleasure of His Company
1961-06-01
The Pleasure of His Company
Overview: Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marry a California rancher. Though Pogo's ex-wife remains unimpressed, Jessica quickly falls for her father's charismatic offensive. Soon, however, his reappearance causes complications for the bride-to-be, and she must decide whether or not to go ahead with the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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Hondo and the Apaches
1967-09-08
Hondo and the Apaches
Overview: Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-08
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The Black Dakotas
1954-09-02
The Black Dakotas
Overview: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Winged Victory
1944-12-22
Winged Victory
Overview: Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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Then Came Bronson
1969-03-24
Then Came Bronson
Overview: Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-24
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A Girl Named Tamiko
1962-12-27
A Girl Named Tamiko
Overview: A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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The Girl in White
1952-05-23
The Girl in White
Overview: The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Mother Didn't Tell Me
1950-03-03
Mother Didn't Tell Me
Overview: Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986-04-19
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Overview: Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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The Missouri Traveler
1958-01-21
The Missouri Traveler
Overview: Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Catacombs
1965-06-09
Catacombs
Overview: A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-09
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Murder and the Computer
1973-12-04
Murder and the Computer
Overview: After coming under suspicion for a computer technician's murder, six hackers team up to try to find the real killer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-04
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This Is the Army
1943-08-14
This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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Thieves
1977-02-11
Thieves
Overview: Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966-12-25
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
Overview: A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-25
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Around the World Under the Sea
1966-05-21
Around the World Under the Sea
Overview: A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-21
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Clambake
1967-12-04
Clambake
Overview: The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-04
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The Murderers
1973-11-07
The Murderers
Overview: A reformed criminal is blackmailed when three girls are murdered.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-07
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Rawhide
1951-03-25
Rawhide
Overview: At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-25
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Rhapsody of Steel
1959-12-04
Rhapsody of Steel
Overview: Animated industrial movie about the steel industry.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-04
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The Searching Eye
1964-04-22
The Searching Eye
Overview: The simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to what the boy has seen, giving us a deeper understanding of visual awareness.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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For Liberty and Union
1977-01-01
For Liberty and Union
Overview: At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, delegates from Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from the Confederacy and form a new government loyal to the United States that two years later would be officially recognized as the new state of West Virginia. This historical reenactment was commissioned to mark the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House -- the actual site of the delegates' conventions, featured within the film.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Navy Wife
1956-05-20
Navy Wife
Overview: Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-20
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Amarsi male
1969-08-09
Amarsi male
Overview: Anna plays the personal secretary of a rich industrialist who falls in love with her boss' daughter's leftist boyfriend, Carlo. Anna pretty much severs her ties with her boss (who she also had romantic moments with) and after she moves in with the college student Carlo she attempts to provide for both, but soon fails in finding job opportunities and sinks into the sleazy world of drugs and prostitution. Carlo's right wing brother demands Carlo begins his relationship with daughter of the powerful businessman in order to guarantee financial freedom for the rest of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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The World of Darkness
1977-04-17
The World of Darkness
Overview: A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-17
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Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966-01-01
Ride Beyond Vengeance
Overview: Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his wife's family, and eventually deserts her to become a buffalo hunter. 11 years later, with his self-made fortune, he sets out to return home, only to be set upon by three sadistic marauders, who steal his money and leave him for dead. Rescued by a farmer who nurses him back to health, Jonas becomes consumed by the desire for revenge. As fate would have it, all three men live close to Jonas' former home. Matters quickly get worse when Jonas reunites with his wife, only to discover that she is now engaged to Renne.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Huckleberry Finn
1974-05-24
Huckleberry Finn
Overview: Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
Genres: Music Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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The Seekers
1979-12-03
The Seekers
Overview: This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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Strange Victory
1948-09-25
Strange Victory
Overview: Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-25
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Run, Psycho, Run
1968-05-01
Run, Psycho, Run
Overview: Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Pueblo
1973-03-28
Pueblo
Overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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In Search of Hart Crane
1966-01-02
In Search of Hart Crane
Overview: Produced and directed by Hurwitz for National Educational Television (precursor of PBS), Hurwitz uses biographer and Columbia professor, John Unterecker, to help him look for the poet, Hart Crane, in his work and in the memories of many of his contemporaries. In Search of Hart Crane, 1966, is one of the very first interview-driven documentaries and is still a masterpiece of the literary documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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Bermuda Affair
1956-07-04
Bermuda Affair
Overview: Chuck Walters and Bob Scoffield are old war buddies who run a cargo airplane service in Bermuda. Walters is happily married to Chris while Scoffield chases after every woman who looks his way. Though Walters doesn't suspect anything, Chris isn't nearly as happy as he is and has started a romance with Scoffield on the side. When Walters finally finds out about the affair, he's devastated by the betrayal and runs out into the jungle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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