John Close
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Birthday: June 01, 1921
Deathday: December 21, 1963
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Chain of Evidence
1957-01-06
Chain of Evidence
Overview: A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-06
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Finger Man
1955-06-15
Finger Man
Overview: An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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The Girl on the Bridge
1951-12-01
The Girl on the Bridge
Overview: A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
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Beginning of the End
1957-06-28
Beginning of the End
Overview: An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Take the High Ground!
1953-10-30
Take the High Ground!
Overview: Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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Convicts 4
1962-09-15
Convicts 4
Overview: After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Sudden Danger
1955-12-14
Sudden Danger
Overview: Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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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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Black Tuesday
1954-12-31
Black Tuesday
Overview: Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-31
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Run Silent, Run Deep
1958-03-27
Run Silent, Run Deep
Overview: The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-27
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We're Not Married!
1952-07-11
We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953-07-14
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Overview: Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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Halls of Montezuma
1951-01-04
Halls of Montezuma
Overview: Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-04
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Step Down to Terror
1958-09-01
Step Down to Terror
Overview: Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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The Slime People
1963-03-29
The Slime People
Overview: After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Rebel Without a Cause
1955-10-27
Rebel Without a Cause
Overview: After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-27
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Red Skies of Montana
1952-01-23
Red Skies of Montana
Overview: When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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Pat and Mike
1952-06-13
Pat and Mike
Overview: Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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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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The Big Heat
1953-10-14
The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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The Monster That Challenged the World
1957-06-14
The Monster That Challenged the World
Overview: Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-14
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World Without End
1956-03-25
World Without End
Overview: Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
Genres: Adventure Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-25
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Fangs of the Arctic
1953-01-18
Fangs of the Arctic
Overview: Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-18
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The Spoilers
1955-12-23
The Spoilers
Overview: In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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The Breaking Point
1950-10-06
The Breaking Point
Overview: A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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You for Me
1952-07-19
You for Me
Overview: A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-19
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Submarine Command
1951-11-01
Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Footsteps in the Night
1957-04-14
Footsteps in the Night
Overview: Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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