Wayne Heffley
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Birthday: July 15, 1927
Deathday: November 19, 2008
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Fly Away Home
1981-09-18
Fly Away Home
Overview: Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Testament
1983-11-04
Testament
Overview: It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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The Outsider
1961-12-27
The Outsider
Overview: Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977-04-13
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Overview: The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-13
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Orca
1977-07-22
Orca
Overview: After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
1978-12-20
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Overview: A touching dramatization of a short chapter of American history, tracing the life of the last Yahi Indian from his childhood to his death in 1917 and the story of his friendship with an anthropologist after his discovery in northern California in 1911.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Victims
1982-01-11
Victims
Overview: A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-11
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Submarine Seahawk
1958-12-01
Submarine Seahawk
Overview: For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner and the way he keeps avoiding taking on the Japs.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Widow
1976-01-22
Widow
Overview: A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-22
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Crisis in Sun Valley
1978-03-29
Crisis in Sun Valley
Overview: Semi-follow up to "The Deadly Triangle" dealing with a sheriff and his deputy in a sleepy ski town involved with a group of urbanites planning a dangerous mountain climb as well as investigating sabotage in a condominium development.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-29
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Danger in Paradise
1977-05-12
Danger in Paradise
Overview: A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-12
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
1977-09-12
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Overview: A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Nightside
1980-06-08
Nightside
Overview: Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-08
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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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Beyond the Next Mountain
1981-03-11
Beyond the Next Mountain
Overview: The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters.
Genres: Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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Birdman of Alcatraz
1962-07-04
Birdman of Alcatraz
Overview: After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-04
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The Trap
1959-01-28
The Trap
Overview: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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King Kong
1976-09-08
King Kong
Overview: An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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Battle Flame
1959-07-26
Battle Flame
Overview: The trials and tribulations of a platoon of U.S. Marines, led by 1st Lt. Frank Davis, during the Korean War.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-26
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Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
1977-05-16
Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Overview: In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Mind Over Murder
1979-10-23
Mind Over Murder
Overview: A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to the skeptical police.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-23
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982-07-23
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Overview: When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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Black Widow
1987-02-06
Black Widow
Overview: Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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