John Mansfield
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 12, 1916
Deathday: September 18, 1956
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Duel on the Mississippi
1955-09-16
Duel on the Mississippi
Overview: In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Warpath
1951-11-22
Warpath
Overview: John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Too Late for Tears
1949-07-17
Too Late for Tears
Overview: Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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Savage Drums
1951-06-22
Savage Drums
Overview: There is this little small-island kingdom located off the South China coast and the United States offers a pact of economic aid and military assistance if needed.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-22
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The Naked Jungle
1954-03-03
The Naked Jungle
Overview: The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-03
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Escape to Burma
1955-04-09
Escape to Burma
Overview: A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-09
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Tennessee's Partner
1955-09-21
Tennessee's Partner
Overview: A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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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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Appointment in Honduras
1953-10-16
Appointment in Honduras
Overview: On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Genres: Adventure Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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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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Kismet
1955-10-08
Kismet
Overview: A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.
Genres: Music Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-08
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