Biography: Robert Irby Clarke (June 1, 1920 – June 11, 2005) was an actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 01, 1920
Deathday: June 11, 2005
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1981-11-27
Overview: A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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1945-05-25
Overview: Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-25
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1978-04-12
Overview: An 8-year old boy invents a hand-held computer which can control any electronic device, and uses it to affect the entire town where he lives.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-12
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1946-05-10
Overview: London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-10
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1959-11-18
Overview: When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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1958-08-28
Overview: After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-28
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2005-04-22
Overview: Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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1990-08-01
Overview: A woman is plagued by dreams of being buried alive while her adulterous husband, steeped in gambling debts, hatches a scheme to drive her mad and murder her to acquire her fortune.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-01
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1960-09-08
Overview: In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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1945-04-28
Overview: A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-28
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1957-04-10
Overview: A scientist and a gang that has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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1944-12-08
Overview: Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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1946-11-15
Overview: A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-15
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1959-06-01
Overview: A drifter riding the rails gets mistaken for the new sheriff of a small town. He takes the police job and is immediately pressured to crack down on local organized crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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1997-12-01
Overview: Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world's most popular Christmas traditions -- from the significance of December 25th and its relationship to winter solstice to the enchanting legend of Santa Claus and Prince Albert's 1841 unveiling of the Christmas tree.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-01
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1951-04-27
Overview: While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-27
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1947-02-20
Overview: Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in time to save Banker Stockton and his money from Carter's men. When Stockton then lends the ranchers money, Carter has them burned out. Bob knows Carter is responsible and when Carter's henchman Saunders is recognized, Bob goes into action.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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1950-09-27
Overview: A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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1951-05-23
Overview: When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-23
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1946-12-16
Overview: An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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1952-10-10
Overview: In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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1990-02-08
Overview: A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-08
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1945-09-05
Overview: A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-05
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1947-06-01
Overview: Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch and tries to kill Hayden. When he fails he kills Chick Jorth with a rock. As Hayden does not carry a gun and the two had argued earlier, Hayden is arrested for the murder. With Hayden in jail, his friends Chito, Ginger, and his Lawyer Gardner now go to work to find the murderer.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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1953-11-20
Overview: With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
Genres: Romance Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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1945-11-23
Overview: A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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1958-11-12
Overview: Ben Cooper, an old farmer, falls in love with the young blond hitchhiker Mari Lou. She falls in love with Ben Coopers money. But, will he have enough to make her happy?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-12
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1948-07-17
Overview: US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-17
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1962-05-03
Overview: An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-03
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1959-10-01
Overview: A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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1947-06-20
Overview: An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-20
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1985-05-10
Overview: A U.S. Navy submarine captain tries to prevent the Soviets from trying to launch World War III.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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1962-06-06
Overview: A private eye (Robert Clarke) takes pictures for the publishers (Francine York, Syd Mason) of a scandal magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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1952-03-31
Overview: A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-31
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2014-08-01
Overview: Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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1988-05-14
Overview: Set in the '50s in a movie theatre showing a serial called "Space Patrol," this particular episode being "Back from the Future." The evil scientist on the serial goes back to the '50s and his crew members have to chase him. Meanwhile at the theatre, patrons busy themselves doing strange things. An alien has landed and is eliminating theatre staff and patrons.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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1958-11-26
Overview: Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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1946-07-15
Overview: A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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1957-10-11
Overview: The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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1954-12-24
Overview: Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the townspeople to dig for it, but there are more surprises in store for them than they counted on.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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1945-08-01
Overview: A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-01
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Overview: Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school can offer a four-year engineering degree.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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1947-01-31
Overview: Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-31
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1949-12-25
Overview: A Christmas Carol was a 1949 syndicated, black and white television special narrated by Vincent Price.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-25
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2014-10-12
Overview: From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scares, low budgets and big bugs with SPACE INVADERS AND DRIVE INS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-12
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1957-04-27
Overview: Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.
Genres: Western Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-27
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1997-06-15
Overview: Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-15
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1947-12-15
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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1947-08-01
Overview: A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-01
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1983-01-01
Overview: Z-grade horror flick "The Hideous Sun Demon" re-dubbed and re-edited into a monster-movie spoof about a suntan lotion that works from the inside out (it also has a certain side effect).
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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1945-05-31
Overview: In this western, a young cowboy rides out to avenge his father's killer. Eventually, he finds the scoundrel, but by this time opts not to kill him for the cowboy has fallen in love with the outlaw's niece. Later, the killer ends up killed and the hero is blamed for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-31
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1951-08-30
Overview: Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, they set about to track down the genuine killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-30
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1948-02-07
Overview: In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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1985-05-19
Overview: Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-19
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1959-11-22
Overview: An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-22
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1950-02-11
Overview: Out-of-work cowboys Kansas Jones and Chito Rafferty are offered jobs at pretty Dusty Willis' ranch after saving her from a beating by saloon owner Clint Burrows. Dusty's good-hearted but weak-willed brother Harry, adding to his $3000 gambling debt to Willis, reluctantly agrees to pay it off by allowing the Ringo Kid, Burrows' vicious hired gun, to rustle cattle from his sister's ranch. Kansas intervenes, deters the rustlers and persuades Harry to confess his involvement to Dusty. Kansas, sent into town by Dusty to pay off Harry's debts, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law, wrongly accused of murder and must rely on Dusty's belief in his innocence for his salvation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-11
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1947-04-25
Overview: Leon needs to make a business deal with Mr. Marshall but can't unless his son and Marshall's daughter straighten out their romantic problems. Leon, probably based on his own past history and the assumption that an apple never falls far from the tree, suspects that his son is playing around with the girl in room 303. His investigation reveals that his son isn't, but the girl's boy friend thinks Leon is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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1946-07-08
Overview: A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him. But he is rescued and reformed by his sister, and an undercover agent for the express company.
Genres: Adventure Western Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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1950-11-24
Overview: In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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1951-12-21
Overview: The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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1953-02-20
Overview: An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-20
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1951-06-10
Overview: Linda Mason, secretary to advertising executive Horace Fairchild III, has theatrical aspirations, and unknown to her boss, she enters a radio talent contest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-10
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1950-05-11
Overview: When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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1953-02-27
Overview: A ruthless Texas oil baron and his non-believing daughter find God in this early witnessing film produced by and featuring Billy Graham.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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1945-05-01
Overview: Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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1945-05-30
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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1970-09-17
Overview: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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1953-08-10
Overview: Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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1951-11-09
Overview: A lawyer (Robert Clarke) defends a slot-machine king, and his bride (Penny Edwards) and partner (Ross Ford) don't like it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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1946-08-23
Overview: Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-23
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1947-09-26
Overview: A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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1979-02-01
Overview: A father encourages a son to do things he couldn't when he was young, then he realizes his son has his own ambitions.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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