Bing Russell
Biography: Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 05, 1926
Deathday: April 08, 2003
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One Man's Way
1964-02-26
One Man's Way
Overview: Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Elvis
1979-02-10
Elvis
Overview: This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Last Train from Gun Hill
1959-07-29
Last Train from Gun Hill
Overview: A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Good Day for a Hanging
1959-01-01
Good Day for a Hanging
Overview: As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen. Now, many years later, the gang returns to again rob the bank. On their flight they shoot the Marshal. Eddie is the only one to identify the murderer - but is in doubt if he shall be loyal to his new or his old friends.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15
Cheyenne Autumn
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
The Horse Soldiers
Overview: A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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Journey to Shiloh
1968-05-10
Journey to Shiloh
Overview: At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-10
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How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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A Gathering of Eagles
1963-06-21
A Gathering of Eagles
Overview: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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Yuma
1971-03-02
Yuma
Overview: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
Genres: Western TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-02
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A Taste of Evil
1971-10-11
A Taste of Evil
Overview: On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-11
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Attack
1956-09-19
Attack
Overview: Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic area, has serious doubts about Captain Cooney's leadership ability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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The Sex Symbol
1974-09-17
The Sex Symbol
Overview: A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-17
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Suicide Battalion
1958-02-28
Suicide Battalion
Overview: Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Set This Town on Fire
1973-01-08
Set This Town on Fire
Overview: After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-08
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A Life at Stake
1955-03-01
A Life at Stake
Overview: An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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The Magnificent Seven
1960-10-12
The Magnificent Seven
Overview: An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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The Land Unknown
1957-10-15
The Land Unknown
Overview: Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake discovered a decade earlier. His helicopter and its small party, including reporter Maggie Hathaway, is forced down into a volcanic crater by a fierce storm. They find themselves trapped in a lush tropical environment that has survived from prehistoric times.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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The Deadly Mantis
1957-05-01
The Deadly Mantis
Overview: A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Drango
1957-01-01
Drango
Overview: A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Rio Bravo
1959-03-18
Rio Bravo
Overview: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Sunset
1988-04-29
Sunset
Overview: Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Overboard
1987-12-16
Overboard
Overview: Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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Cult of the Cobra
1955-03-30
Cult of the Cobra
Overview: While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Stakeout!
1962-10-01
Stakeout!
Overview: After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that he befriends along the way attempt to kidnap an oil baron's son. The kidnapping fails and Joe Dasco is shot and killed. His son Joey is then left alone but inherits what his father fought and died for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Cattle Empire
1958-04-01
Cattle Empire
Overview: After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson. Complicating matters, a rival cattle baron also hires the cattle driver to lead his herd.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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The Hallelujah Trail
1965-06-23
The Hallelujah Trail
Overview: A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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A Cry in the Wilderness
1974-03-26
A Cry in the Wilderness
Overview: The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Madame X
1966-03-03
Madame X
Overview: A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-03
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969-12-29
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Overview: Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-29
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972-07-12
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Overview: Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, corrupt businessman A.J. Arno plots to get his greedy hands on it. Slapstick hijinks ensue as Dexter and his pals try to thwart the evil Arno before he can use the invisibility spray to rob a bank.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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Bombers B-52
1957-11-22
Bombers B-52
Overview: Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975-07-01
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Overview: A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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Dick Tracy
1990-04-05
Dick Tracy
Overview: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-05
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The Million Dollar Duck
1971-06-30
The Million Dollar Duck
Overview: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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Satan's School for Girls
1973-09-19
Satan's School for Girls
Overview: Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called "The Five" -- and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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Blackbeard's Ghost
1968-02-08
Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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The Loneliest Runner
1976-12-20
The Loneliest Runner
Overview: A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-20
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Tango & Cash
1989-12-22
Tango & Cash
Overview: Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-22
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Ride a Violent Mile
1957-11-24
Ride a Violent Mile
Overview: A cowboy stampedes a Rebel plot with a Union spy posing as a dance-hall girl.
Genres: Western War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-24
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The Stripper
1963-06-19
The Stripper
Overview: An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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Teenage Thunder
1957-01-01
Teenage Thunder
Overview: Teenagers rebel and race cars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Runaway!
1973-09-29
Runaway!
Overview: A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball
2014-01-20
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Overview: Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the country—alarming the baseball establishment and sparking the meteoric rise of the 1970s Portland Mavericks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-20
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Death Sentence
1974-10-02
Death Sentence
Overview: A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976-05-29
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Overview: Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Big Leaguer
1953-08-19
Big Leaguer
Overview: John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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