Stephen Bekassy
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 10, 1907
Deathday: October 30, 1995
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Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
Hell and High Water
Overview: A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-06
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The Light in the Forest
1958-07-08
The Light in the Forest
Overview: A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-08
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Purple Lilacs
1934-09-06
Purple Lilacs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1934-09-06
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Arch of Triumph
1948-02-17
Arch of Triumph
Overview: In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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Beyond the Time Barrier
1960-09-08
Beyond the Time Barrier
Overview: In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Black Magic
1949-08-19
Black Magic
Overview: A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-19
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The Purple Mask
1955-06-15
The Purple Mask
Overview: France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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A Song to Remember
1945-01-19
A Song to Remember
Overview: Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Secrets of Monte Carlo
1951-06-20
Secrets of Monte Carlo
Overview: A U.S. businessman abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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Prisoner of War
1954-05-04
Prisoner of War
Overview: American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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The Pathfinder
1952-12-09
The Pathfinder
Overview: Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who have brought death and pillage to his people. He takes on a mission to retrieve secret plans from within the French fort at St. Vicente.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-09
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Fair Wind to Java
1953-01-28
Fair Wind to Java
Overview: The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Young Lions
1958-04-02
The Young Lions
Overview: The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Woman of the North Country
1952-07-23
Woman of the North Country
Overview: In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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Bachelor Flat
1961-12-07
Bachelor Flat
Overview: Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Serenade
1956-03-23
Serenade
Overview: A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Interrupted Melody
1955-05-05
Interrupted Melody
Overview: Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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Calypso Joe
1957-06-08
Calypso Joe
Overview: Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in spite of the efforts made by her former boyfriend, Lee Darling, a television star, to win her back. Rico's sister, Astra, makes a play for Lee, who only responds to make Julie jealous. As the plane bearing Juile and others (includng all the credited musicians and bands) is about to depart, Herb Jefferies smuggles Lee on board so he can have a chance to dissuade Julie.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-08
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962-02-07
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Overview: In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-07
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Return of the Dead
1954-09-09
Return of the Dead
Overview: A teenage girl is charged with the attempted murder of a gangland figure. Her mother has also been shot. To further complicate matters, the girl's father, who went missing in action in the War fifteen years ago, has suddenly reappeared.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-09
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