Dan Duryea
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907, in White Plains, New York – June 7, 1968, in Hollywood, California) was an American actor of film, stage and television. Duryea graduated from Cornell University in 1928. While at Cornell, Duryea was elected into the Sphinx Head Society. He made his name on Broadway in the play Dead End, followed by The Little Foxes, in which he played the dishonest and not particularly bright weakling Leo Hubbard. He moved to Hollywood in 1940 to appear in the film version in the same role. He established himself in films playing similar secondary roles as the foil, usually as a weak or annoyingly immature character, in movies such as The Pride of the Yankees. As his career progressed throughout the 1940s he began to carve a niche as a violent, yet sexy, bad guy in a number of film noirs. In so doing he established a significant female following and, over time, something of a cult status. His work in this era included Scarlet Street, The Woman in the Window, Criss Cross, Black Angel and Too Late for Tears. From the 1950s, Duryea was more often seen in Westerns, most notably his charismatic villain in Winchester '73 (1950). Other memorable work in the latter part of his career included Thunder Bay (1953), The Burglar (1957), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), and the primetime soap opera Peyton Place. He also appeared in one of the first Twilight Zone episodes in 1959 as a drunken former gunfighter in "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," written by Rod Serling. He guest starred on NBC's anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show. In 1963, Duryea appeared as Dr. Ben Lorrigan in the episode "Why Am I Grown So Cold" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Duryea was far removed from many of the characters he played in the course of his career. He was married for thirty-five years to his wife, Helen, who preceded him in death on January 21, 1967. The couple had two sons: Peter, who worked for a time as an actor, and Richard. Dan Duryea died of cancer at the age of sixty-one. His remains are interred in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Duryea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: January 23, 1907
Deathday: June 07, 1968
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Foxfire
1955-07-13
Foxfire
Overview: A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-13
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The Flight of the Phoenix
1965-12-15
The Flight of the Phoenix
Overview: A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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Black Angel
1946-08-02
Black Angel
Overview: A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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Lady on a Train
1945-08-03
Lady on a Train
Overview: While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-03
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Ministry of Fear
1944-05-19
Ministry of Fear
Overview: Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-19
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Criss Cross
1949-02-04
Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Night Passage
1957-07-24
Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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Larceny
1948-09-03
Larceny
Overview: Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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The Bamboo Saucer
1968-10-23
The Bamboo Saucer
Overview: A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Too Late for Tears
1949-07-17
Too Late for Tears
Overview: Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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The Burglar
1957-06-01
The Burglar
Overview: Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Silver Lode
1954-07-23
Silver Lode
Overview: Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-23
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The Great Flamarion
1945-01-13
The Great Flamarion
Overview: A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-13
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The Underworld Story
1950-07-26
The Underworld Story
Overview: A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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World for Ransom
1954-01-31
World for Ransom
Overview: In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-31
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One Way Street
1950-04-01
One Way Street
Overview: After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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Winchester '73
1950-07-12
Winchester '73
Overview: Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Manhandled
1949-07-21
Manhandled
Overview: Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-21
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Chicago Calling
1951-12-31
Chicago Calling
Overview: Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon after his wife and daughter leave him, he receives word his little girl has been injured in a car accident outside Chicago. His wife will call later with news, but Bill’s short the $53 he needs to keep his phone from being disconnected. Filled with anguish, he heads out onto the Los Angeles streets to find some way to come up with the cash. As his character encounters expected cruelty and unexpected kindness, Duryea takes what might have been mere melodrama and turns it into a perceptive examination of one shattered soul. The other fine star of this race-against-the-clock programmer is an unglamorous, lunch-bucket L.A. rarely captured on film.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-31
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36 Hours
1953-12-04
36 Hours
Overview: When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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Thunder Bay
1953-05-21
Thunder Bay
Overview: Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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The Little Foxes
1941-08-29
The Little Foxes
Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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The Valley of Decision
1945-05-03
The Valley of Decision
Overview: Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-03
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Six Black Horses
1962-04-24
Six Black Horses
Overview: A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-24
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Scarlet Street
1945-12-25
Scarlet Street
Overview: Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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The Woman in the Window
1944-10-25
The Woman in the Window
Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-25
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Sahara
1943-09-22
Sahara
Overview: In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Mrs. Parkington
1944-10-12
Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Johnny Stool Pigeon
1949-04-20
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Overview: A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-20
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Along Came Jones
1945-07-19
Along Came Jones
Overview: An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-19
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957-09-01
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Overview: A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
Battle Hymn
Overview: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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Storm Fear
1955-12-16
Storm Fear
Overview: A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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Five Golden Dragons
1967-08-03
Five Golden Dragons
Overview: While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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The Hills Run Red
1966-09-09
The Hills Run Red
Overview: After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.
Genres: Action Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Sky Commando
1953-08-21
Sky Commando
Overview: Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-21
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Main Street After Dark
1945-01-12
Main Street After Dark
Overview: A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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White Tie and Tails
1946-08-30
White Tie and Tails
Overview: When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951-01-17
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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River Lady
1948-06-01
River Lady
Overview: In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Incident at Phantom Hill
1966-07-01
Incident at Phantom Hill
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Taggart
1965-02-01
Taggart
Overview: Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Another Part of the Forest
1948-05-18
Another Part of the Forest
Overview: This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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Platinum High School
1960-05-13
Platinum High School
Overview: At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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Ride Clear of Diablo
1954-02-10
Ride Clear of Diablo
Overview: A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Black Bart
1948-02-17
Black Bart
Overview: Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments. One fateful day, the stage he robs carries old friends Lance and Jersey...and notorious dancer Lola Montez, coming to perform in Sacramento. Black Bart and Lance become rivals for both Lola's favors and Wells Fargo's gold.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-17
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The Marauders
1955-09-26
The Marauders
Overview: A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-26
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Do You Know This Voice?
1964-12-01
Do You Know This Voice?
Overview: When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for the killer – telling the press that she had seen the kidnapper's face and she waits for him to attack.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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This Is My Love
1954-10-27
This Is My Love
Overview: A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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Man from Frisco
1944-06-15
Man from Frisco
Overview: Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-15
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He Rides Tall
1964-02-26
He Rides Tall
Overview: A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Rails Into Laramie
1954-04-14
Rails Into Laramie
Overview: A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Stranger on the Run
1967-10-31
Stranger on the Run
Overview: A drifter finds himself wrongly accused of murder by a power-crazed sheriff. The sheriff gives him a horse, some supplies, and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his murderous posse after him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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Kathy O'
1958-09-24
Kathy O'
Overview: A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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The Bounty Killer
1965-07-30
The Bounty Killer
Overview: Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-30
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Walk a Tightrope
1963-08-26
Walk a Tightrope
Overview: Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has been killed and she's under suspicion despite the appearance of a happy marriage. Jason's friend assists Ellen go over the facts to see if they can find the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-26
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None But the Lonely Heart
1944-10-17
None But the Lonely Heart
Overview: When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-17
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That Other Woman
1942-11-13
That Other Woman
Overview: A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Winchester '73
1967-03-14
Winchester '73
Overview: TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
Ball of Fire
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Gundown at Sandoval
1959-01-01
Gundown at Sandoval
Overview: In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Screen Actors
1950-05-13
Screen Actors
Overview: This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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