Biography: Carver Dana Andrews (January 1, 1909 – December 17, 1992) was an American actor. A leading man during the 1940s, he continued acting in less prestigious roles and character parts into the 1980s. He is best known for his portrayal of obsessed police detective Mark McPherson in the noir Laura (1944) and his critically acclaimed performance as World War II veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Andrews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1909
Deathday: December 17, 1992
Popularity:
1946-12-25
Overview: It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
Popularity:
1942-12-03
Overview: A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-03
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1944-10-11
Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-11
Popularity:
1947-12-25
Overview: Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
Popularity:
1956-09-13
Overview: A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-13
Popularity:
1965-04-15
Overview: Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
Popularity:
1957-11-09
Overview: American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-09
Popularity:
1945-11-15
Overview: An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
Popularity:
1948-06-16
Overview: The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-16
Popularity:
1945-08-29
Overview: During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-29
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
1958-10-01
Overview: A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
Popularity:
1974-10-18
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
Popularity:
1965-12-16
Overview: In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-16
Popularity:
1967-01-27
Overview: While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-27
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
1983-02-23
Overview: A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-23
Popularity:
1948-07-22
Overview: A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-22
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1950-08-03
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
Popularity:
1941-12-02
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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1956-04-19
Overview: Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-19
Popularity:
1940-09-18
Overview: Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-18
Popularity:
1946-07-17
Overview: In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-17
Popularity:
1954-04-21
Overview: Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-21
Popularity:
1944-02-25
Overview: This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-25
Popularity:
1945-12-25
Overview: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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1976-11-18
Overview: Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-18
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1975-10-29
Overview: After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-29
Popularity:
1951-01-25
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
Popularity:
1965-04-06
Overview: A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-06
Popularity:
1941-11-16
Overview: A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-16
Popularity:
1965-10-11
Overview: Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-11
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1950-07-07
Overview: A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
Popularity:
1943-11-04
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-04
Popularity:
1941-02-20
Overview: Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
Popularity:
1947-02-28
Overview: When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
Popularity:
1967-03-25
Overview: A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
Popularity:
1944-01-01
Overview: An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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1982-12-31
Overview: While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
Popularity:
1941-09-12
Overview: After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
Popularity:
1957-11-13
Overview: In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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1961-04-13
Overview: An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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1943-04-22
Overview: A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-22
Popularity:
1980-11-26
Overview: Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-26
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
1952-09-04
Overview: Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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1972-09-01
Overview: Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
Popularity:
1943-03-01
Overview: "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
Popularity:
1966-03-09
Overview: The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-09
Popularity:
1956-03-01
Overview: Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
Popularity:
1966-10-15
Overview: A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-15
Popularity:
1955-04-12
Overview: Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
Popularity:
1950-01-19
Overview: After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
Popularity:
1944-02-17
Overview: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
Popularity:
1949-03-31
Overview: In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-31
Popularity:
1955-03-01
Overview: Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
Popularity:
1940-06-28
Overview: Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
Popularity:
1951-05-19
Overview: A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-19
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1948-01-20
Overview: A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
Popularity:
1957-03-01
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
Popularity:
1940-08-30
Overview: Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
Popularity:
1979-05-03
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
Popularity:
1954-11-04
Overview: After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find the real killer and the Sheriff has given him just three hours to do it.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-04
Popularity:
1951-12-22
Overview: The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-22
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1958-11-08
Overview: Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-08
Popularity:
1975-05-13
Overview: A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-13
Popularity:
1971-09-27
Overview: On the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-27
Popularity:
1948-11-12
Overview: Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-12
Popularity:
1965-07-07
Overview: A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
Popularity:
1975-01-28
Overview: An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-28
Popularity:
1967-08-06
Overview: A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex web of blackmail around her to steal a stash of diamonds.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-06
Popularity:
1978-01-01
Overview: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud is a short film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
Popularity:
1967-02-09
Overview: A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He has the gem then he looses it and gets it back through various ploys around Europe
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-09
Popularity:
1965-09-17
Overview: A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-17
Popularity:
1954-06-30
Overview: An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-30
Popularity:
1949-08-24
Overview: First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-24
Popularity:
1978-06-01
Overview: The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-01
Popularity:
1940-07-05
Overview: Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
Popularity:
1942-08-17
Overview: Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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1985-12-01
Overview: A dramatic look at the inner workings of the Kennedy administration.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-01
Popularity:
1977-11-16
Overview: The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-16
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
2001-10-07
Overview: The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-07
Popularity:
1968-05-15
Overview: At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-15
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1949-11-12
Overview: A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents. They read a script carefully and design a set to capture the time and place, the social strata, and the mood. They must be scholars of the history of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. They choose the colors on a set in anticipation of the lighting and the mood. Their work also sets styles, from Art Deco in the 20's to 30s modernism. Then it's on to the next project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-12
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1957-01-01
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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1991-10-28
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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