Frank Overton
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 12, 1918
Deathday: April 24, 1967
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Fail Safe
1964-10-07
Fail Safe
Overview: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1962-12-20
To Kill a Mockingbird
Overview: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019-11-14
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Overview: Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Genres: Documentary Drama Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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Boomerang!
1947-02-28
Boomerang!
Overview: When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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Wild River
1960-05-26
Wild River
Overview: A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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The Last Mile
1959-02-18
The Last Mile
Overview: Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Posse from Hell
1961-03-01
Posse from Hell
Overview: Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Desire Under the Elms
1958-03-12
Desire Under the Elms
Overview: Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
2000-10-31
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Overview: Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020-01-28
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Overview: Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960-09-28
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Overview: In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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Claudelle Inglish
1961-09-20
Claudelle Inglish
Overview: A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-20
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No Way Out
1950-08-16
No Way Out
Overview: Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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An American Girl
1958-01-01
An American Girl
Overview: The story of a teenage girl who starts wearing a Jewish charm bracelet that she received for her birthday. She then begins to experience anti-semitism and prejudice first hand from her friends at high school and in the community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Five in Judgement
1955-04-10
Five in Judgement
Overview: When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Mystery Street
1950-06-23
Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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The True Story of Jesse James
1957-03-22
The True Story of Jesse James
Overview: Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-22
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The Trip to Bountiful
1953-03-01
The Trip to Bountiful
Overview: A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-01
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Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04
Lonelyhearts
Overview: Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Bloomer Girl
1956-05-28
Bloomer Girl
Overview: In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Genres: Music Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-28
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