Simon Scott
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Birthday: September 21, 1920
Deathday: December 11, 1991
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Cold Turkey
1971-02-19
Cold Turkey
Overview: Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts, from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Tail Gunner Joe
1977-02-06
Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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The Honeymoon Machine
1961-08-16
The Honeymoon Machine
Overview: Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch, putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-16
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Spider-Man Strikes Back
1978-12-21
Spider-Man Strikes Back
Overview: At the New York State University, one of Peter Parker's tutors has accidentally given three students all the materials they need to create an atomic bomb. While Peter Parker tries to find out what's happened, the police suspect him of the crime, and Peter has to deal with an attractive journalist determined to get an interview with Spider-Man. Then dastardly millionaire Mr. White shows up, and will stop at nothing to get his hands on the atomic bomb. Spider-Man must defeat this scheming villain and stop him blowing up the World Trade Centre.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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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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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
1966-10-12
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Overview: A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-12
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No Name on the Bullet
1959-02-01
No Name on the Bullet
Overview: When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
Battle Hymn
Overview: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977-02-09
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Overview: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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I've Lived Before
1956-09-01
I've Lived Before
Overview: Seeing a certain woman makes an airline pilot think he is a reincarnated World War I pilot.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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The Man
1972-07-19
The Man
Overview: When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-19
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
1972-01-30
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Overview: An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-30
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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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The Ugly American
1963-04-02
The Ugly American
Overview: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-02
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Strange Bedfellows
1965-02-09
Strange Bedfellows
Overview: After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-09
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The Return of Mod Squad
1979-05-18
The Return of Mod Squad
Overview: Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-18
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The Disappearance of Flight 412
1974-10-01
The Disappearance of Flight 412
Overview: Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford) is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level, military intelligence group that debunks UFO information. The intrepid colonel, kept in the dark about his crew, decides to investigate the matter himself.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Father Goose
1964-12-10
Father Goose
Overview: During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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A Night Train to Terror
1973-05-23
A Night Train to Terror
Overview: A woman is murdered during an overnight train ride and a veteran detective clashes with young P.I. on how they are going flush out the killer. They find themselves racing against the clock when a second body is discovered.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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In Enemy Country
1968-07-01
In Enemy Country
Overview: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Ready for the People
1964-10-01
Ready for the People
Overview: In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Anatomy of a Crime
1969-06-13
Anatomy of a Crime
Overview: Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve years before, but she was never seen again. Now a woman has come forward who claims the young girl she raised is the millionaire's missing daughter. Later, Ross is contacted by a retired burlesque dancer who's about to publish her memoirs and possibly reveal the secrets of some important people, but someone is determined to stop her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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The Couch
1962-02-21
The Couch
Overview: A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
1973-10-20
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Overview: After Col. Steve Austin fails to retrieve the contents of a safe owned by arms dealer Arlen Findletter, he takes up an friendly offer of a holiday in the Bahamas. There he runs into Soviet Agent Alexi Kaslov and his lovely assistant Katrina Volana, who also happen to be out to find Findletter. Is it a coincidence, or was Steve's trip all part of one of Oscar Goldman's missions?
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-20
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The Raid
1954-08-04
The Raid
Overview: A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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