Ted Hecht
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 17, 1908
Deathday: June 24, 1969
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The Gangster
1947-11-25
The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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End of the Road
1944-11-10
End of the Road
Overview: A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Tarzan and the Huntress
1947-04-05
Tarzan and the Huntress
Overview: A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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Congo Crossing
1956-07-01
Congo Crossing
Overview: Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Danger Woman
1946-07-12
Danger Woman
Overview: A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-12
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Dragon Seed
1944-07-20
Dragon Seed
Overview: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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So Proudly We Hail
1943-09-09
So Proudly We Hail
Overview: During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-09
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
1949-02-05
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Overview: An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-05
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Lost City of the Jungle
1946-04-23
Lost City of the Jungle
Overview: A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-23
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Shoot to Kill
1947-03-15
Shoot to Kill
Overview: A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-15
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Port Said
1948-04-15
Port Said
Overview: Travel author Leslie Sears arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to meet with Greg Stewart, an old war buddy who is a theater booking agent in Port Said. Leslie telephones Greg and arranges a rendezvous, but shortly after the conversation ends, Greg is murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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Istanbul
1957-01-23
Istanbul
Overview: A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-23
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Rookies in Burma
1943-12-20
Rookies in Burma
Overview: In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-20
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
1950-01-22
Blue Grass of Kentucky
Overview: The story revolves around a colt born in Kentucky and named "Blue Grass". and the training of the colt to win the Kentuck Derby. and how all of that affected the lives, fortunes and, relationships and romances of the people associated with the colt's race-track career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-22
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Sideshow
1950-06-18
Sideshow
Overview: A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-18
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Gilda
1946-04-25
Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Three's a Crowd
1945-05-23
Three's a Crowd
Overview: What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-23
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Killer Shark
1950-03-19
Killer Shark
Overview: A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-19
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Spoilers of the North
1947-04-23
Spoilers of the North
Overview: When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally selling their catch to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-23
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The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
The Lost Weekend
Overview: Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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Riding the California Trail
1947-01-11
Riding the California Trail
Overview: Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores. Learning that all her money will got to her uncle Don Jose when she marries Raole, Cisco suspects a plot and sets out to unravel it.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-11
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Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
Just Before Dawn
Overview: In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-07
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Lady from Chungking
1942-12-21
Lady from Chungking
Overview: During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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The Wolf Hunters
1949-10-29
The Wolf Hunters
Overview: A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Bad Men of Tombstone
1949-01-21
Bad Men of Tombstone
Overview: A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-21
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Corregidor
1943-03-29
Corregidor
Overview: A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-29
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950-08-05
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion
Overview: Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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The War of the Worlds
1953-08-13
The War of the Worlds
Overview: The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Serpent of the Nile
1953-05-08
Serpent of the Nile
Overview: Cleopatra toys with Mark Antony who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Big Timber
1950-09-10
Big Timber
Overview: A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-10
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955-06-23
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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Man-Eater of Kumaon
1948-11-08
Man-Eater of Kumaon
Overview: A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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