John Barton
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 12, 1898
Deathday: November 30, 1978
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The Far Country
1954-02-12
The Far Country
Overview: During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Johnny Trouble
1957-09-24
Johnny Trouble
Overview: An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-24
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The Ladies Man
1961-06-21
The Ladies Man
Overview: After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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The Cincinnati Kid
1965-10-15
The Cincinnati Kid
Overview: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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Lonely are the Brave
1962-05-24
Lonely are the Brave
Overview: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Seven Ways from Sundown
1960-09-25
Seven Ways from Sundown
Overview: A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-25
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Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
Seven Sinners
Overview: Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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The Garment Jungle
1957-05-01
The Garment Jungle
Overview: Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Four Guns to the Border
1954-11-05
Four Guns to the Border
Overview: A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Seven Days in May
1964-02-01
Seven Days in May
Overview: A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957-12-17
Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Frenchie
1950-12-25
Frenchie
Overview: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Gunmen from Laredo
1959-03-01
Gunmen from Laredo
Overview: A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960-11-10
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Overview: Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1963-03-27
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Overview: Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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The Wheeler Dealers
1963-11-14
The Wheeler Dealers
Overview: Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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Summer and Smoke
1961-11-16
Summer and Smoke
Overview: In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-16
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Roustabout
1964-11-11
Roustabout
Overview: After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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What a Way to Go!
1964-07-31
What a Way to Go!
Overview: A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Comanche Territory
1950-05-01
Comanche Territory
Overview: Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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The Virginian
1946-05-05
The Virginian
Overview: Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-05
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Gypsy
1962-11-01
Gypsy
Overview: Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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The Plunderers
1960-11-05
The Plunderers
Overview: Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawlessness if decent folks like rancher and Civil War veteran Sam Christy don’t take a stand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-05
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Raintree County
1957-12-20
Raintree County
Overview: In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Belle of the Yukon
1944-12-27
Belle of the Yukon
Overview: Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-27
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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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Duel in the Sun
1946-12-31
Duel in the Sun
Overview: Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Deadline at Dawn
1946-03-18
Deadline at Dawn
Overview: A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-18
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Limelight
1952-10-23
Limelight
Overview: A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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The Tin Star
1957-10-23
The Tin Star
Overview: An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Spartacus
1960-10-13
Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Scarlet Street
1945-12-25
Scarlet Street
Overview: Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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Friendly Persuasion
1956-11-25
Friendly Persuasion
Overview: The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-25
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Inherit the Wind
1960-07-07
Inherit the Wind
Overview: Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Flame of Barbary Coast
1945-05-28
Flame of Barbary Coast
Overview: Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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A Place in the Sun
1951-06-12
A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951-09-28
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Overview: An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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The Iron Mistress
1952-11-19
The Iron Mistress
Overview: In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
Genres: History Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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From This Day Forward
1946-03-02
From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Badman's Territory
1946-05-04
Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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In the Navy
1941-05-30
In the Navy
Overview: Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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I Want to Live!
1958-11-18
I Want to Live!
Overview: Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
To Kill a Mockingbird
Overview: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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The Last Wagon
1956-09-21
The Last Wagon
Overview: When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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The Man from the Alamo
1953-08-07
The Man from the Alamo
Overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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