Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anne Lloyd Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress, best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956), and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West (1965–1966). She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West. Francis holds the distinction of starring in the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anne Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 16, 1930
Deathday: January 02, 2011
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1956-03-23
Overview: Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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1954-09-17
Overview: A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-17
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1955-03-25
Overview: Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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1992-12-14
Overview: Elizabeth Bentley is a successful lawyer who suddenly has some "punkish" daydreams of being "Rambo" right around the time her clueless boyfriend Brad asks her to marry him. After a therapy session, she quits her job to the surprise of her family and Brad, and goes into the detective business, opening her own private-eye office. Unfortunately, the ghost of the private-eye who owned the office still lingers and Elizabeth's the only one who can see or hear him. At first, she becomes an unwilling partner in Nick Peyton's unfinished investigation, but then she finds herself falling for the salty, but dead, guy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-14
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1965-03-26
Overview: A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-26
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1982-12-27
Overview: Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-27
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1965-05-05
Overview: Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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1969-08-01
Overview: Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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1955-01-13
Overview: One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-13
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1968-09-19
Overview: The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-19
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1950-05-20
Overview: Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-20
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1954-07-28
Overview: On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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1980-02-22
Overview: A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-22
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1955-02-02
Overview: The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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1956-11-02
Overview: Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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1972-10-31
Overview: In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an even greater problem when he meets McDermott, a mysterious adventurer who promises to get him weapons and ammunition for his troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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1960-09-02
Overview: When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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1952-07-26
Overview: Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-26
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1956-11-28
Overview: Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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1969-01-15
Overview: When the multiple murderer Cain is released from prison after 18 years, he wants to settle down as a rancher and never touch a gun again. But his former life haunts him; not only that nobody wants to give him a job, some villains also want to pay him back. So he has to accept the offer of showman Ruffalo to perform as "Killer Cain" in his traveling shooting show. However after 18 years without practice even Ruffalo's young assistant Billy shoots better than Cain.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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1969-05-07
Overview: Adventurers search for World War II gold in the Philippines.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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1969-06-06
Overview: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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1953-09-23
Overview: A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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1957-11-14
Overview: Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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1972-09-20
Overview: A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-20
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1954-04-01
Overview: After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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1960-11-11
Overview: Bobbie is a sensitive, lonely call girl who is manipulated and ultimately used by her madam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-11
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1970-10-20
Overview: Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-20
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1957-09-20
Overview: A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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1971-12-10
Overview: Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
Genres: Crime Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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1955-07-29
Overview: An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Genres: History Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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2006-11-14
Overview: A short documentary about Robby the Robot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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1971-09-14
Overview: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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1951-11-23
Overview: Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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1970-08-13
Overview: The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-13
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1973-05-09
Overview: A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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1952-05-30
Overview: A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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1990-11-16
Overview: Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn into a gambling mecca.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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1970-11-10
Overview: The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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1996-07-12
Overview: A pair of lovers have no idea that their affair is overseen and orchestrated by an angel sent by Cupid to see that they remain together in this romantic comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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1983-02-06
Overview: Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. The story centres on Lord Fancourt Babberley, an undergraduate whose friends Jack and Charley persuade him to impersonate the latter's aunt.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-06
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2014-10-12
Overview: From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scares, low budgets and big bugs with SPACE INVADERS AND DRIVE INS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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1972-03-05
Overview: A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-05
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1979-05-14
Overview: This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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1978-09-05
Overview: Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little Mo," and died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 34.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-05
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1948-12-25
Overview: A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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1978-10-01
Overview: Having been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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1948-06-11
Overview: A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-11
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1970-01-01
Overview: Exploitation documentary, not to be confused with the Something Weird compilation of the same name, which amongst others contains a copy of this film.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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1988-12-04
Overview: Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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1948-04-15
Overview: Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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1975-06-18
Overview: A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-18
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1985-10-31
Overview: After reading an article about hypnotic regression, a woman whose maternal grandfather died when she was only three years old contacts the hypnotic subject named in the article believing that he is the reincarnation of her grandfather, and hoping that she can learn the truth about how he died.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-31
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1978-05-28
Overview: Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-28
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1974-02-06
Overview: A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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1975-03-04
Overview: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
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1979-11-26
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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1986-01-27
Overview: An over-the-hill gumshoe reluctantly teams with worldly retired master thief to solve a string of art thefts and murders.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-27
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1951-08-02
Overview: A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-02
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1987-11-15
Overview: Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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1996-01-08
Overview: A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-08
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1992-09-07
Overview: Lance, a teenager, dreams to be a secret agent when he is suddenly in the middle of an hacker intrigue which aims at an international environmental congress. Lance gets in possession of a computer access card one of which the hackers are in urgent need of for their operation. Lance begins to play with the hackers, seeing his dream come true.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-07
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1965-10-03
Overview: The young copyboy helps the town’s first female newspaper reporter, who is writing a series on confidence men. The swindlers are caught up in a sting, but they catch on and the reporter and Gallegher have to subdue them in order to escape and write their article.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-03
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2006-11-14
Overview: A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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1974-11-08
Overview: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-08
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1976-05-03
Overview: A traveling horse trader and his young nephew travel the west in search of the boy's prize Arabian horse, who has been stolen by a bounty hunter.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-03
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