Robert Burton
Biography: Robert Burton was an actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 12, 1895
Deathday: September 29, 1962
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957-11-23
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Overview: Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-23
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A Private's Affair
1959-08-14
A Private's Affair
Overview: Luigi, Jerry, and Mike are in boot camp when they are presented with a chance to represent their unit in competition on a national television show. The three guys are up to the challenge, which begins a chain of unusual circumstances that not only have them singing and dancing at the proper times, but also running into a trio of alluring young women.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Cry of the Hunted
1953-05-08
Cry of the Hunted
Overview: A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Riot in Cell Block 11
1954-02-18
Riot in Cell Block 11
Overview: A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Compulsion
1959-04-01
Compulsion
Overview: Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Broken Lance
1954-09-25
Broken Lance
Overview: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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The Big Heat
1953-10-14
The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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The Tall T
1957-04-02
The Tall T
Overview: An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962-12-06
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Overview: The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Inferno
1953-08-12
Inferno
Overview: When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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The Slime People
1963-03-29
The Slime People
Overview: After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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A Man Called Peter
1955-03-31
A Man Called Peter
Overview: Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-31
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Terror in the Midnight Sun
1959-08-19
Terror in the Midnight Sun
Overview: After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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The Story on Page One
1959-12-01
The Story on Page One
Overview: An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Above and Beyond
1953-01-02
Above and Beyond
Overview: The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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The Rack
1956-11-02
The Rack
Overview: Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the other prisoners that they were fighting an unjust war. When he comes back he is charged for collaboration with the enemy. Where does loyalty end in a prison camp, when the camp is a living hell?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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The Girl Who Had Everything
1953-03-27
The Girl Who Had Everything
Overview: Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-27
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953-11-13
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Overview: In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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Man or Gun
1958-05-30
Man or Gun
Overview: Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-30
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The Young Savages
1961-05-24
The Young Savages
Overview: A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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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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Desperate Search
1952-11-19
Desperate Search
Overview: A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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Wake Me When It's Over
1960-06-10
Wake Me When It's Over
Overview: The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-10
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Ransom!
1956-01-24
Ransom!
Overview: A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-24
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Sky Full of Moon
1952-12-12
Sky Full of Moon
Overview: A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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The Hired Gun
1957-09-20
The Hired Gun
Overview: A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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The Hard Man
1957-12-01
The Hard Man
Overview: A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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A Slight Case of Larceny
1953-06-05
A Slight Case of Larceny
Overview: Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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Latin Lovers
1953-08-12
Latin Lovers
Overview: An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
1972-01-28
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
Overview: A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-28
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The Siege at Red River
1954-05-01
The Siege at Red River
Overview: Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians.
Genres: Action War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Fearless Fagan
1952-08-15
Fearless Fagan
Overview: A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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Three Brave Men
1956-12-01
Three Brave Men
Overview: A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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The Trailer
1925-02-21
The Trailer
Overview: Stuntman and award winning athlete Frank Merrill (Tarzan The Tiger) fights the bad guys in the old west. A fun short from 1925.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-21
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Domino Kid
1957-10-01
Domino Kid
Overview: A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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My Man and I
1952-09-05
My Man and I
Overview: In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952-12-25
The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Who Killed Julie Greer?
1961-09-26
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Overview: Amos Burke is an L.A. cop who's inherited millions and usually arrives at crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Investigating the death of actress Julie Greer, he finds lots of suspects - but the killer's identity surprises him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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Confidentially Connie
1953-03-12
Confidentially Connie
Overview: Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-12
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The Gallant Hours
1960-06-13
The Gallant Hours
Overview: A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-13
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Fast Company
1953-05-21
Fast Company
Overview: The temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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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 Young Lions
1958-04-02
The Young Lions
Overview: The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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The Road to Denver
1955-06-15
The Road to Denver
Overview: The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
The Spirit of St. Louis
Overview: Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Brass Legend
1956-12-01
The Brass Legend
Overview: During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Reprisal!
1956-11-02
Reprisal!
Overview: New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Taza, Son of Cochise
1954-02-18
Taza, Son of Cochise
Overview: Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Mardi Gras
1958-11-18
Mardi Gras
Overview: A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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Jubal
1956-02-25
Jubal
Overview: Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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No Down Payment
1957-10-30
No Down Payment
Overview: The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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The Left Hand of God
1955-09-02
The Left Hand of God
Overview: A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Everything I Have Is Yours
1952-10-31
Everything I Have Is Yours
Overview: A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
1959-08-06
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Overview: In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Soldier of Fortune
1955-05-24
Soldier of Fortune
Overview: An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
1977-01-16
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Overview: A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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Mooncussers
1962-12-02
Mooncussers
Overview: A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea. The ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-02
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