Maurice Marsac
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Birthday: March 23, 1915
Deathday: May 06, 2007
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The Secret Of St. Ives
1949-06-30
The Secret Of St. Ives
Overview: A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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Natika
1963-02-24
Natika
Overview: The film concerns a destructive romance between a young harpist studying in Rome, and a louche playboy and heir to Europe's wealthy corporate and governing class, played by J. D. Barrymore.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Gambit
1966-12-21
Gambit
Overview: Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
1961-11-09
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
Overview: The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detective in charge of the investigation attributes the crime to a wolf, while her mate Priscilla believes she was killed by Sir Alfred. On the next days, other deaths happen in the school, reducing the list of suspects.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-09
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Against All Flags
1952-12-24
Against All Flags
Overview: A British naval officer fights pirates in Madagascar.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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Jump Into Hell
1955-04-01
Jump Into Hell
Overview: Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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How Do I Love Thee?
1970-10-01
How Do I Love Thee?
Overview: A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Come Fly with Me
1963-03-27
Come Fly with Me
Overview: Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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The Iroquois Trail
1950-06-15
The Iroquois Trail
Overview: An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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The Big Red One
1980-01-22
The Big Red One
Overview: A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-22
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Tarzan and the Trappers
1958-01-01
Tarzan and the Trappers
Overview: Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder's brother, with the help of money-hungry trader Lapin, hunts a different kind of quarry, human game. Now Tarzan must not only fight to save the animals of the jungle, but he must also save himself. Three episodes of a failed TV series edited for theater release.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1947-11-27
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
Overview: While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-27
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Fugitive from Montreal
1950-11-17
Fugitive from Montreal
Overview: Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-17
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China Gate
1957-05-22
China Gate
Overview: Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-22
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Captain Pirate
1952-08-27
Captain Pirate
Overview: In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-27
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
1965-08-04
Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
Overview: When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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Can-Can
1960-03-09
Can-Can
Overview: Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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Perro golfo
1963-02-18
Perro golfo
Overview: A widower butcher uses the grace of his child's pet, a tramp dog, to attract customers to his post. One day, seen how effective is this system, he decides to use the same trick for a more delicate issue: conquering the florist who has a stall in front of him, which he has always loved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-02-18
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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953-10-29
How to Marry a Millionaire
Overview: Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
2005-05-03
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
Overview: A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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The Poseidon Adventure
1972-12-01
The Poseidon Adventure
Overview: When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Three Husbands
1950-11-10
Three Husbands
Overview: When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Take Her, She's Mine
1963-11-13
Take Her, She's Mine
Overview: After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the term "concerned parent." Reading Mollie's letters describing her counter-culture experiences and beatnik friends, Frank eventually grows so paranoid that he boards a plane to Paris to see firsthand the kind of lessons his daughter is learning with her new artist amour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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The Pleasure Seekers
1964-12-25
The Pleasure Seekers
Overview: A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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What a Way to Go!
1964-07-31
What a Way to Go!
Overview: A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
1981-10-14
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Overview: Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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Ike
1979-05-03
Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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Four Girls in Town
1957-01-16
Four Girls in Town
Overview: Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-16
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Ride The High Iron
1956-12-01
Ride The High Iron
Overview: A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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To Have and Have Not
1945-01-20
To Have and Have Not
Overview: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Deal of the Century
1983-11-04
Deal of the Century
Overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Overview: In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-02
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Armored Command
1961-07-09
Armored Command
Overview: An American army unit is trapped in a small town during a German counterattack and discovers that a spy in the town is providing the Germans with information about them.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-09
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Once More, My Darling
1949-09-10
Once More, My Darling
Overview: An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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King of Kings
1961-10-11
King of Kings
Overview: Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Twilight for the Gods
1958-08-04
Twilight for the Gods
Overview: An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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The Black Shield of Falworth
1954-09-02
The Black Shield of Falworth
Overview: In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth, makes friends and enemies, and learns to be a knight.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Herbie Rides Again
1974-02-12
Herbie Rides Again
Overview: The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Tyrant of the Sea
1950-02-22
Tyrant of the Sea
Overview: In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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The Art of Love
1965-06-30
The Art of Love
Overview: Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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The Happy Time
1952-10-30
The Happy Time
Overview: A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-30
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Caprice
1967-04-18
Caprice
Overview: Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-18
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This Is the Life
1944-06-01
This Is the Life
Overview: 18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Woman from Tangier
1948-02-12
The Woman from Tangier
Overview: This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way to Gibraltar. $50,000, in gold, is stolen from the ship's safe and the captain tells the police that the purser was the thief and that he had to kill him in self defense, but the purser must have hidden the money before he got dead. The purser isn't in any position to make a disclaimer. Everybody buys that with the exception of an insurance detective, Shapley, who, along with the audience, suspects the captain of being the thief shows up to investigate further. Written By Les Adams
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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The Caddy
1953-08-10
The Caddy
Overview: Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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Dragnet
1987-06-23
Dragnet
Overview: LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-23
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Wild and Wonderful
1964-06-09
Wild and Wonderful
Overview: Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-09
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Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
1979-02-26
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
Overview: An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-26
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The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
1973-11-17
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
Overview: A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. Meanwhile, Steve accompanies Dr. Erica Bergner, who is testing a new method of brain transferal in order to find out where Cameron is being kept.
Genres: Drama Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-17
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Take One False Step
1949-08-14
Take One False Step
Overview: Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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Assignment: Paris
1952-09-04
Assignment: Paris
Overview: Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Monkeys, Go Home!
1967-02-08
Monkeys, Go Home!
Overview: Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-08
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The Black Chapel
1959-10-15
The Black Chapel
Overview: 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Gigi
1958-05-15
Gigi
Overview: A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-15
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Lafayette Escadrille
1958-02-28
Lafayette Escadrille
Overview: A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Double Trouble
1967-04-05
Double Trouble
Overview: When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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April in Paris
1952-12-24
April in Paris
Overview: A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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