Ronald Lacey
Biography: Ronald Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30 year period and is perhaps best remembered for his villainous roles in Hollywood films, most famously Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronald Lacey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 28, 1935
Deathday: May 15, 1991
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Known For
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981-06-12
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Overview: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967-11-13
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Overview: A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-13
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Firefox
1982-06-18
Firefox
Overview: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984-08-10
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1984-08-17
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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Flesh + Blood
1985-08-30
Flesh + Blood
Overview: A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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The Lone Runner
1986-11-01
The Lone Runner
Overview: The Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her rescue as he did when she was young. The Lone Runner proves to be an unstoppable hero with limitless fighting abilities. He battles those who would harm innocents, and does what ever else he can for them.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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Mille Miglia
1968-08-05
Mille Miglia
Overview: In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the qualities and preparation that went into that victory.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-05
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Charleston
1977-03-05
Charleston
Overview: Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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Sahara
1983-12-01
Sahara
Overview: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Jailbird Rock
1988-07-14
Jailbird Rock
Overview: Phillip Schuman's women-in-prison film is an account of a group of female prisoners who decide to organize a variety show.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-14
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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
1978-11-09
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
Overview: A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.
Genres: Drama Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-09
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Crucible of Terror
1972-04-13
Crucible of Terror
Overview: An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988-11-05
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Overview: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-05
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Of Human Bondage
1964-09-23
Of Human Bondage
Overview: Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infidelity, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-23
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Nijinsky
1980-03-20
Nijinsky
Overview: A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-20
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Take a Girl Like You
1970-12-16
Take a Girl Like You
Overview: Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick, one of the local "lads". Within a short time she has her hands full when a number of the local boys take a liking to her. But who will be the lucky one who wins her affections?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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The Boys
1962-08-31
The Boys
Overview: A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Dawn of an Evil Millennium
1988-07-01
Dawn of an Evil Millennium
Overview: An epic, 20-minute, completely fabricated theatrical trailer for a crypto-Vestron Video cheapie (by way of Willow-era Ron Howard)—a supposedly 18-hour movie about a Jeff Daniels lookalike demon sent to destroy the planet (and possibly the universe) with his "Turbo-power!" Olds dragster. There are shades of John Carpenter's They Live, caffeinated Evil Dead speed-freakery, a cameo by Miles O'Keeffe, and uncanny movie preview clichés, such as sentence prepositions that never reach a resolution: "On an alien planet…the beauty and wisdom of a sorceress…." Sometimes the liner note blurbs speak for themselves: "Damon Packard is to Stephen Spielberg what George Kuchar is to Douglas Sirk."
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Fable
1965-01-27
Fable
Overview: In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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Invitation to the Wedding
1983-01-01
Invitation to the Wedding
Overview: An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Landslide
1992-01-01
Landslide
Overview: An amnesiac finds his life in jeopardy as he gradually regains his memory.
Genres: Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Yellowbeard
1983-06-24
Yellowbeard
Overview: For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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The Old Curiosity Shop
1975-11-07
The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-07
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The Final Programme
1973-10-04
The Final Programme
Overview: After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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The Sign of Four
1987-03-07
The Sign of Four
Overview: Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-07
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Trenchcoat
1983-03-11
Trenchcoat
Overview: An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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Aubrey
1982-01-22
Aubrey
Overview: A biographical portrait of pen-and-ink artist, Aubrey Beardsley.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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Face to Face
1990-01-24
Face to Face
Overview: An American paleontologist and a British miner get in a conflict over who has the rights to dig on a site in Kenya.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Zulu Dawn
1979-05-14
Zulu Dawn
Overview: In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
Genres: Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Red Sonja
1985-04-09
Red Sonja
Overview: The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-09
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Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
1970-05-04
Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Overview: A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when they suspect a Fraud Squad investigator is in their midst. Comedy based on an idea from Gogol's play 'The Government Inspector'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-04
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Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
1966-02-09
Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!
Overview: The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Richard Harris (not the actor, but the future creator of Man in a Suitcase
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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Dead Silence
1966-09-10
Dead Silence
Overview: A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-10
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The Hard Knock
1962-07-08
The Hard Knock
Overview: Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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The Day of the Janitor
1981-07-08
The Day of the Janitor
Overview: Comedy about a maintenance supervisor in an office block whose idea of the company he works for is changed when he has to fix a leak in an executive's office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-08
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The Likely Lads
1976-02-01
The Likely Lads
Overview: With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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Valmont
1989-11-17
Valmont
Overview: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Sky Bandits
1986-10-31
Sky Bandits
Overview: A pair of old west cowboys become fighter pilots in World War I.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Manifesto
1988-01-27
Manifesto
Overview: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-27
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Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice
1986-07-24
Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice
Overview: Baldy and King Kong shuttle between New Zealand and Hong Kong to recover a hi-tech prism that can impart superhuman powers.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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Otley
1969-03-11
Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1983-11-03
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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How I Won the War
1967-10-18
How I Won the War
Overview: An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Gawain and the Green Knight
1973-06-01
Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Into the Darkness
1986-01-01
Into the Darkness
Overview: A bevy of beautiful models arrives on a tropical island for a photo shoot, but soon they are being killed off one by one.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Making the Grade
1984-05-18
Making the Grade
Overview: Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie's gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the scheme slowly starts to unravel. Soon, Eddie can't even tell whose side he's really on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-18
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The Comedy Man
1964-09-03
The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Tangiers
1985-01-01
Tangiers
Overview: A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Bengal Lancers!
1984-06-01
The Bengal Lancers!
Overview: 30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Catch Us If You Can
1965-07-15
Catch Us If You Can
Overview: Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all, bringing along four of Steve's friends. Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-15
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Doctor in Distress
1963-07-30
Doctor in Distress
Overview: "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989-05-24
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Overview: In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-24
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The Next Victim
1975-09-23
The Next Victim
Overview: A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
1973-01-07
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Overview: A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-07
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Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003-10-21
Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
Overview: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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