Joseph La Cava
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 16, 1908
Deathday: February 04, 1992
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Black Gunn
1972-12-20
Black Gunn
Overview: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Viva Las Vegas
1964-02-08
Viva Las Vegas
Overview: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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Send Me No Flowers
1964-10-14
Send Me No Flowers
Overview: At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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The Set-Up
1949-03-29
The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Three Daring Daughters
1948-02-12
Three Daring Daughters
Overview: Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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Looking for Love
1964-08-05
Looking for Love
Overview: An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Yours, Mine and Ours
1968-04-24
Yours, Mine and Ours
Overview: When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Frankie and Johnny
1966-03-31
Frankie and Johnny
Overview: Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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Advise & Consent
1962-06-06
Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Holiday for Lovers
1959-07-21
Holiday for Lovers
Overview: Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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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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Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
1962-10-28
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
Overview: Two young brothers secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics disrupt the quiet town of Gatesville and its unsuspecting residents.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-28
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964-06-24
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Overview: Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Johnny Cool
1963-10-02
Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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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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The Harder They Fall
1956-05-08
The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
1964-03-28
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Overview: Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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Sweet Smell of Success
1957-07-04
Sweet Smell of Success
Overview: New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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Strange Bedfellows
1965-02-09
Strange Bedfellows
Overview: After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-09
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Mame
1974-03-07
Mame
Overview: The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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The Monster of Piedras Blancas
1959-04-22
The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Overview: An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-22
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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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Point Blank
1967-08-30
Point Blank
Overview: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Lightning Strikes Twice
1951-04-12
Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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Evil Roy Slade
1972-02-18
Evil Roy Slade
Overview: Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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The Joker is Wild
1957-09-26
The Joker is Wild
Overview: A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Pat and Mike
1952-06-13
Pat and Mike
Overview: Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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City for Conquest
1940-09-21
City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942-02-13
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Overview: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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The Comancheros
1961-12-16
The Comancheros
Overview: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-16
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Seven Thieves
1960-03-11
Seven Thieves
Overview: A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960-02-03
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Overview: Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
1961-06-11
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Overview: Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971-05-20
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Hold That Ghost
1941-08-08
Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Who Done It?
1942-10-30
Who Done It?
Overview: Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
Some Like It Hot
Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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Tender Is the Night
1962-01-19
Tender Is the Night
Overview: Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-19
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