Robert Cornthwaite
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Birthday: April 28, 1917
Deathday: July 20, 2006
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Dead Man's Revenge
1994-04-15
Dead Man's Revenge
Overview: Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad speculator Payton McCay to justice.
Genres: Western Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962-10-31
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Overview: A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Futureworld
1976-08-13
Futureworld
Overview: Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-13
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The Thing from Another World
1951-04-05
The Thing from Another World
Overview: Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Monkey Business
1952-09-03
Monkey Business
Overview: Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Ten Seconds to Hell
1959-04-23
Ten Seconds to Hell
Overview: Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-23
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Matinee
1993-01-29
Matinee
Overview: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-29
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Time Trackers
1989-05-01
Time Trackers
Overview: When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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The Naked Monster
2005-04-22
The Naked Monster
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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The Day the Bubble Burst
1982-02-07
The Day the Bubble Burst
Overview: A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-07
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Day of the Outlaw
1959-07-01
Day of the Outlaw
Overview: Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Journey Through Rosebud
1972-03-02
Journey Through Rosebud
Overview: A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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The Peace Killers
1971-09-29
The Peace Killers
Overview: Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main squeeze of the gang's leader before she ran away. The pair get away, but the bikers find out that they're living in a nearby commune, and start making their battle plans to bring Kristy back.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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The Devil's Daughter
1973-01-09
The Devil's Daughter
Overview: A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-09
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The Purple Mask
1955-06-15
The Purple Mask
Overview: France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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The Primevals
2023-07-23
The Primevals
Overview: Deep in the Himalayas, a group of sherpas kills a gigantic humanoid creature. Convinced that it is the legendary Yeti, Dr. Claire Collier organizes an expedition with her former student Matt Connor and hunter Rondo Montana, among others, to search for more specimens. But what awaits them is something that none of them could have imagined. A colorful fusion of real image and stop-motion that is reminiscent of fantastic films from the 1980s.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-23
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Day of Triumph
1954-12-25
Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Gambling House
1950-12-27
Gambling House
Overview: A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-27
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Killer by Night
1972-01-07
Killer by Night
Overview: A doctor trying to fight a diphtheria epidemic comes into conflict with a police captain who is using all his resources to track down a cop-killer.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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The Saga of Andy Burnett
1957-10-02
The Saga of Andy Burnett
Overview: Andy's ambition is to become a farmer, but a penniless mountain man convinces him that is not the life for him. His band puts Andy through a series of tests to see if he has what it takes to become a mountain man.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-02
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The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1967-05-01
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Overview: Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Destination Space
1959-01-01
Destination Space
Overview: 1959 television science fiction
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
1966-01-20
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
Overview: Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Genres: Comedy Family Mystery Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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Love's Savage Fury
1979-05-20
Love's Savage Fury
Overview: During the Civil War, a self-centered, young Southern belle tries to hold onto the family estate when the Union Army takes over the area.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-20
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The Studebaker Story
1953-01-01
The Studebaker Story
Overview: The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Beggarman, Thief
1979-11-26
Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Stranger on Horseback
1955-03-22
Stranger on Horseback
Overview: A circuit judge in the old west attempts to bring a suspected killer to justice. The judge runs afoul of the killer's rich cattle baron father in the process.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-22
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Waterhole #3
1967-10-10
Waterhole #3
Overview: After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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Deal of the Century
1983-11-04
Deal of the Century
Overview: Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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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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Environment
1971-01-02
Environment
Overview: Inspired in part by the Irwin Allen film The Story of Mankind (1957), Environment is a featurette that is a cross between a Pirandello play, a science fiction film by Edward D. Wood Jr., and a mundane scientific documentary. The premise is that five individuals from one community, Eagle Valley, are abducted by aliens who then put them on trail for environmental crimes as typical representatives of the human race. Environment was primarily shown in high schools to stimulate discussion on the balance of nature, pollution, and human consumption.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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The Power of the Resurrection
1958-01-01
The Power of the Resurrection
Overview: A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethesamene, when he denied knowing him three times - and yet Jesus told him that he would be the rock upon which the Church was built. Peter goes on to relate the events of the passion week, including the Christ's crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970-04-08
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Overview: The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-08
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Something to Live For
1952-03-07
Something to Live For
Overview: Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Frame Up
1991-06-27
Frame Up
Overview: In the small American town of Orton Creek, David Farmer is accidentally killed by Don Curran, son of town tyrant Will Curran, during a fraternity initiation. The frat boys frame electronic parts salesman Frank Govers for hit-and-run but determined newcomer Sheriff Ralph Baker and his love interest Jo Westlake seek the truth. Govers and girlfriend Lee Ann Hadley hide in a hunting cabin and are captured by prison escapees Mick August and Merlin Wells (who is tricked by Govers into electrocuting himself). August tries to claim the bounty on Govers from Will Curran but Sheriff Baker is only one step behind.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-27
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The Longest Night
1972-09-12
The Longest Night
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-12
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The Leather Saint
1956-06-06
The Leather Saint
Overview: Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Hell on Devil's Island
1957-08-04
Hell on Devil's Island
Overview: An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-04
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The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'
2005-11-01
The Sky Is Falling: Making 'The War of the Worlds'
Overview: Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the 1953 sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds". Included are interviews with some of the cast and crew and unreleased footage from the film itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-01
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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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Union Station
1950-10-04
Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Two on a Bench
1971-11-02
Two on a Bench
Overview: An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-02
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The Six Million Dollar Man
1973-03-07
The Six Million Dollar Man
Overview: Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Doctor Detroit
1983-05-06
Doctor Detroit
Overview: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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Crackle of Death
1976-03-28
Crackle of Death
Overview: The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-28
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His Kind of Woman
1951-08-15
His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968-08-21
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Overview: A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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