Dana Wynter
Biography: Dana Wynter (8 June 1931 – 5 May 2011) was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Wynter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Birthday: June 08, 1931
Deathday: May 05, 2011
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Airport
1970-03-25
Airport
Overview: Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956-02-05
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Overview: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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The Crimson Pirate
1952-09-27
The Crimson Pirate
Overview: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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The List of Adrian Messenger
1963-05-23
The List of Adrian Messenger
Overview: Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-23
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Colonel March Investigates
1953-07-01
Colonel March Investigates
Overview: This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The Bureau of Queer Complaints.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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The Questor Tapes
1974-01-23
The Questor Tapes
Overview: Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik. Since half of his knowledge is missing, he needs the help of Jerry Robinson, who's now under suspect of having stolen the android.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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D-Day the Sixth of June
1956-05-29
D-Day the Sixth of June
Overview: En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-29
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Something of Value
1957-05-08
Something of Value
Overview: As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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Sink the Bismarck!
1960-02-11
Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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On the Double
1961-05-19
On the Double
Overview: American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-19
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Creepy Classics
1987-10-01
Creepy Classics
Overview: A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Lovers Like Us
1975-11-26
Lovers Like Us
Overview: A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-26
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Santee
1973-09-01
Santee
Overview: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
1982-09-20
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana
Overview: The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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The View from Pompey's Head
1955-11-04
The View from Pompey's Head
Overview: Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968-10-08
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Overview: James Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) is an escaped black convict imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Leslie Whitlock (Kevin McCarthy) offers James money to kill his wife, Ellen (Dana Wynter). He declines and tries to look up his old flame Lily (Barbara McNair), but discovers his own brother is now married to the sultry nightclub singer. James returns to Leslie, and the trio travel towards a mountain retreat. James and Ellen escape and try to find the murderer who had framed James years before.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Fraulein
1958-06-08
Fraulein
Overview: A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-08
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In Love and War
1958-10-31
In Love and War
Overview: Three Marines take shore leave in San Francisco during World War II. Frankie O'Neill visits his lower-class dysfunctional family; Nico Kantaylis visits his pregnant fiancée; and the upper-class Alan Newcombe visits his high-living playgirl girlfriend. Each must decide whether to make the best of his situation or break out of it. O'Neill drowns his troubles in alcohol, losing the respect of a potential lover; Kantaylis marries his fiancée, but realizes he may not survive the war to see his child; while Newcombe sheds his decadent girlfriend for a pure-hearted Hawaiian nurse. Later, in battle, a heroic act costs one of the Marines his life.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Shake Hands with the Devil
1959-06-24
Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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M Station: Hawaii
1980-06-10
M Station: Hawaii
Overview: In this unsold pilot, the US government hires a salvage team to recover a sunken Russian submarine, heightening Cold War tensions.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-10
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951-10-25
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Overview: Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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It Started in Paradise
1952-10-28
It Started in Paradise
Overview: A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-28
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The Woman's Angle
1952-02-12
The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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Companions in Nightmare
1968-11-23
Companions in Nightmare
Overview: One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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Danger Has Two Faces
1968-10-18
Danger Has Two Faces
Overview: A U.S. spy and East German police duke it out in a battle of wits, fisticuffs and killing. The spy assumes the ID of a wealthy look-alike that the commies kill. But will his wife spill the beans in this Cold War espionage thriller?
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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The Connection
1973-02-27
The Connection
Overview: An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-27
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Any Second Now
1969-02-11
Any Second Now
Overview: A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money. He arranges for her to have an auto accident. However, instead of killing her, the accident only causes her to lose her memory, and the doctors say that it could return at any moment.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-11
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
1975-10-27
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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To Be a Woman
1951-01-02
To Be a Woman
Overview: Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions. There are also some newsreel shots of marching suffragettes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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The Return of Ironside
1993-05-04
The Return of Ironside
Overview: After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-04
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Night Without Stars
1951-04-03
Night Without Stars
Overview: A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-03
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Laura
1955-10-19
Laura
Overview: A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the victim, the mysterious Laura.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-19
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Knights of the Round Table
1953-12-22
Knights of the Round Table
Overview: In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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