Frank Richards
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Birthday: September 15, 1909
Deathday: April 15, 1992
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I, the Jury
1953-08-14
I, the Jury
Overview: After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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A Double Life
1947-12-25
A Double Life
Overview: A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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The Scarf
1951-04-06
The Scarf
Overview: A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Gang Busters
1955-06-17
Gang Busters
Overview: A life-long criminal continues his practice of breaking out of Oregon State Prison - much to the frustration of the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-17
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The Set-Up
1949-03-29
The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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The System
1953-04-18
The System
Overview: A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-18
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Revolt in the Big House
1958-12-21
Revolt in the Big House
Overview: A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-21
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The Threat
1949-12-01
The Threat
Overview: A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Tough Assignment
1949-11-15
Tough Assignment
Overview: A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Genres: Western Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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Western Pacific Agent
1950-04-10
Western Pacific Agent
Overview: An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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The Hangman
1959-06-17
The Hangman
Overview: A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. However, the man is known and liked in the town, and the citizens band together to try to help him avoid capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1955-12-26
The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Carbine Williams
1952-05-01
Carbine Williams
Overview: David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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The Crooked Way
1949-04-22
The Crooked Way
Overview: A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-22
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Man from Del Rio
1956-10-30
Man from Del Rio
Overview: Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Running Target
1956-11-01
Running Target
Overview: In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thought it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or alive, he is, as always, reluctant to kill his fellow man. He is accompanied by Jaynes, a tavern owner, who takes much delight in his telescopic rifle, and by "Smitty," a gas station held up the escapees and more than ready to show she can be as tough as any man, although she seems to have some other motive for getting to the leader of the convicts, Kaygo.
Genres: Crime Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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The Hook
1963-02-15
The Hook
Overview: Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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Wyoming Mail
1950-10-18
Wyoming Mail
Overview: In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Guys and Dolls
1955-12-23
Guys and Dolls
Overview: Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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A Bullet for Joey
1955-04-15
A Bullet for Joey
Overview: Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Arson for Hire
1959-03-01
Arson for Hire
Overview: Johnny Broderick, arson squad investigator, and his assistant, Ben Howard,, investigate a warehouse fire and find evidence of arson. Lawyer William Yarbo is behind the series of incendiary fires that have been plaguing the city. Keely Hariss, an actress, inherited the warehouse from her father. Yabro calls on her and says that he and her father had heavily insured the building and planned to burn it and collect, and also tells her she must accept half of the insurance money or he will see that she is blamed for the arson. "Pop" Bergen, the father of Marily Bergen, is the torch man hired by Yarbo, and he perishes in one of the conflagrations. Yarbo learns that Keely is cooperating with Broderick and he enters the movie studio where she is working, determined to kill her. Written By Les Adams
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Come to the Stable
1949-07-27
Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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The Killing
1956-06-06
The Killing
Overview: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Thieves' Highway
1949-09-20
Thieves' Highway
Overview: Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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The Story of Mr. Hobbs
1947-01-01
The Story of Mr. Hobbs
Overview: Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Arizona
1940-12-25
Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Before I Hang
1940-09-17
Before I Hang
Overview: Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-17
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Prisoners of the Casbah
1953-11-03
Prisoners of the Casbah
Overview: A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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The Cowboy and the Indians
1949-09-15
The Cowboy and the Indians
Overview: Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1956-07-18
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Overview: Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-18
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Spy Chasers
1955-07-31
Spy Chasers
Overview: Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-31
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Hot Cargo
1956-01-04
Hot Cargo
Overview: After marrying the captain of a tramp steamer in Hong Kong, a barmaid falls in love with a harbor policeman, but her frustration with her meager life leads her to contemplate a quicker way to the wealthy life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-04
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California Passage
1950-12-15
California Passage
Overview: A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Redhead from Manhattan
1943-05-06
Redhead from Manhattan
Overview: Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-06
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Alias Boston Blackie
1942-04-02
Alias Boston Blackie
Overview: It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-02
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The Savage
1952-09-01
The Savage
Overview: The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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South of Caliente
1951-10-15
South of Caliente
Overview: "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers stars with his real-life wife, Dale Evans, in this Western about a hardworking farmer who helps a struggling rancher by transporting her prize horse to Mexico. A fortuitous meeting with a fortune-teller (Charlita) -- who specializes in dire predictions -- sets the tone for their adventures. Burlesque comic Pinky Lee co-stars, playing himself.
Genres: Music Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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The Storm Rider
1957-03-01
The Storm Rider
Overview: In this fast-paced Western, smaler ranchers hire a former gunman Bart Jones (Scott Brady) in the middle of a range war when he's called on to protect a group of small-time ranchers against cattle baron Maj.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Cry Baby Killer
1958-08-15
The Cry Baby Killer
Overview: A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Destry
1954-12-01
Destry
Overview: Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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The Corsican Brothers
1941-11-28
The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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A Woman Under the Influence
1974-11-18
A Woman Under the Influence
Overview: Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-18
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No Way Out
1950-08-16
No Way Out
Overview: Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Father of the Bride
1950-05-18
Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Hold That Ghost
1941-08-08
Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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The Hard Man
1957-12-01
The Hard Man
Overview: A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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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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Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04
Lonelyhearts
Overview: Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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A Man's World
1942-09-17
A Man's World
Overview: Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
1956-10-11
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Overview: An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-11
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Tennessee Champ
1954-03-03
Tennessee Champ
Overview: A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-03
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Teacher's Pet
1958-04-01
Teacher's Pet
Overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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New York Confidential
1955-02-15
New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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The World Was His Jury
1958-01-01
The World Was His Jury
Overview: A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears' 1958 drama stars Edmond O'Brien, Robert McQueeney, Paul Birch, Mona Freeman and Karin Booth.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Outriders
1950-03-01
The Outriders
Overview: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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