Ben Wright
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 05, 1915
Deathday: July 02, 1989
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The Little Mermaid
1989-11-17
The Little Mermaid
Overview: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961-01-25
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Overview: When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-25
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The Jungle Book
1967-10-18
The Jungle Book
Overview: The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Topaz
1969-12-17
Topaz
Overview: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Munster, Go Home!
1966-06-15
Munster, Go Home!
Overview: Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance had blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a longstanding grudge against the Munsters.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Sound of Music
1965-03-29
The Sound of Music
Overview: In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Genres: Drama Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-29
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A Gathering of Eagles
1963-06-21
A Gathering of Eagles
Overview: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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Probe
1972-02-21
Probe
Overview: That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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Desert Sands
1955-11-18
Desert Sands
Overview: The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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Pharaoh's Curse
1957-02-01
Pharaoh's Curse
Overview: Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Arnold
1973-11-16
Arnold
Overview: Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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My Blood Runs Cold
1965-03-24
My Blood Runs Cold
Overview: Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969-03-26
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
Overview: The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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The Desert Rats
1953-05-20
The Desert Rats
Overview: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959-12-15
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Overview: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-15
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18
Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Turnover Smith
1980-06-08
Turnover Smith
Overview: A criminology professor uses scientific methods, advanced computer technology, his expertise in chess, and the leg work of several of his students to track down a crazed killer in San Francisco.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-08
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957-12-17
Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959-11-17
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Overview: A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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Raid on Rommel
1971-02-12
Raid on Rommel
Overview: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
1990-08-06
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Overview: The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-06
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Kiss Them for Me
1957-12-10
Kiss Them for Me
Overview: Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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Botany Bay
1952-12-26
Botany Bay
Overview: Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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The Exile
1947-10-17
The Exile
Overview: In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-17
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The Fortune Cookie
1966-10-19
The Fortune Cookie
Overview: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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Way Down Cellar
1968-01-07
Way Down Cellar
Overview: Three friends find a secret tunnel under the ruins of a church that leads them to the basement of a dilapidated house and, incidentally, a group of counterfeiters.
Genres: Family Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-07
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The Little Mermaid Live!
2019-11-05
The Little Mermaid Live!
Overview: Live musical performances by a star-studded cast will be interwoven into the broadcast of the animated classic.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-05
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Until They Sail
1957-10-08
Until They Sail
Overview: Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969-10-14
Wake Me When the War Is Over
Overview: During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!
Genres: Comedy War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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All My Darling Daughters
1972-11-22
All My Darling Daughters
Overview: A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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Villa!!
1958-10-01
Villa!!
Overview: Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Terror in the Wax Museum
1973-05-02
Terror in the Wax Museum
Overview: Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-02
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Johnny Concho
1956-07-01
Johnny Concho
Overview: In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon
1972-11-26
Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon
Overview: Chandar is a black leopard who lives near the beach of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) together with his mother and his sister.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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23 Paces to Baker Street
1956-05-18
23 Paces to Baker Street
Overview: Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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