Robert Arthur
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Arthur (born Robert Paul Arthaud; June 18, 1925 – October 1, 2008) was an American motion picture actor who appeared in dozens of films in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in the 1949 war film Twelve O'Clock High as the comic relief–providing Sgt. McIllhenny, in the 1951 Billy Wilder film Ace in the Hole, and in the 1950s television program The Lone Ranger. Arthur was known for playing youthful teenage or young adult roles. In his later years, Arthur became an activist for gay rights on behalf of senior citizens. He died in Aberdeen, Washington in 2008, aged 83.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 18, 1925
Deathday: October 01, 2008
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Yellow Sky
1948-12-24
Yellow Sky
Overview: In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
Genres: Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
Ace in the Hole
Overview: An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Nora Prentiss
1947-02-22
Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Twelve O'Clock High
1949-12-21
Twelve O'Clock High
Overview: In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-21
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The System
1953-04-18
The System
Overview: A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-18
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The Ring
1952-09-26
The Ring
Overview: A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Green Grass of Wyoming
1948-06-03
Green Grass of Wyoming
Overview: The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-03
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Belles on Their Toes
1952-05-02
Belles on Their Toes
Overview: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1946-11-16
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Overview: A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
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Hellcats of the Navy
1957-05-01
Hellcats of the Navy
Overview: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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You're My Everything
1949-07-22
You're My Everything
Overview: In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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September Affair
1950-10-18
September Affair
Overview: An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Night and Day
1946-07-02
Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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Air Cadet
1951-03-14
Air Cadet
Overview: A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-14
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Mother Is a Freshman
1949-03-12
Mother Is a Freshman
Overview: Widow Abby Abbott is having serious money problems and has to dip into the family trust in order to pay for her daughter Susan's college tuition. The catch: Abby must also become a co-ed or she can't touch the money. After passing her entrance exams, Abby goes to college and becomes very popular, especially with a handsome English professor whom Susan has a crush on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-12
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Mother Wore Tights
1947-08-20
Mother Wore Tights
Overview: In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Roughly Speaking
1945-01-31
Roughly Speaking
Overview: In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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Wild Youth
1961-09-08
Wild Youth
Overview: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-08
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On the Loose
1951-09-28
On the Loose
Overview: After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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Top of the World
1955-05-01
Top of the World
Overview: A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Young and Wild
1958-04-24
Young and Wild
Overview: Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-24
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Young Bess
1953-05-29
Young Bess
Overview: The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Mildred Pierce
1945-10-20
Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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The Devil On Wheels
1947-02-15
The Devil On Wheels
Overview: A teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-15
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Too Young to Know
1945-12-01
Too Young to Know
Overview: A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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Return from the Sea
1954-07-28
Return from the Sea
Overview: A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a waitress that can see through his tough veneer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Just for You
1952-09-27
Just for You
Overview: Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Rushes
1986-01-01
Rushes
Overview: Evil director (Kenneth Weyerhauser) uses sex to trap newcomers to the porn world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Take the High Ground!
1953-10-30
Take the High Ground!
Overview: Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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Hollywood Wonderland
1947-08-09
Hollywood Wonderland
Overview: Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-09
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The Desperados Are in Town
1956-11-01
The Desperados Are in Town
Overview: In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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Jobsite
1984-01-01
Jobsite
Overview: Hard hats and hard men converge at Jobsite, the wildest bar in town. From the backroom stalls to the front door, the action is fast, furious, and always fulfilling. Never have so many big poles been erected so quickly!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Danger Signal
1945-11-21
Danger Signal
Overview: After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Nobody Lives Forever
1946-11-01
Nobody Lives Forever
Overview: A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Jock Empire
1984-01-01
Jock Empire
Overview: Jockstraps and body worship are featured in College Jocks. Toes are sucked, legs are kissed, piss slits are licked, and asses are eaten, besides fucking and sucking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Diamond Stud
1995-01-01
The Diamond Stud
Overview: Diamond Kincaid is a famous gay singer who hires a bodyguard to keep his secret. Escapades occur including a sizzling pool three way with Kincaid and two pro athletes. The guard and Diamond fall in love culminating in a nude motorcycle ride and versatile lovemaking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Kiss-Off
1992-01-01
Kiss-Off
Overview: Service men always know how to stand at attention. See what happens when they get a taste of Los Angeles, California . . . Let the games begin. No stone goes unturned as horny military men make their rounds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Rassle
1992-01-01
Rassle
Overview: A reporter interviews a college wrestling coach (Jon Vincent) about his star athletes and gets more than he bargained for in one of the best videos to combine storyline, wrestling, and cock-popping sex. First, there's the time he forced two goof-offs to take it up the ass on his office desk; then, there's the steamy story about the jockstrapped athlete (Jeff Dillon) who complains to his doctor about a "stiffness" near his upper thigh that began when he caught two of his teammates having a dick measuring contest; finally, Coach Vincent challenges his smart-mouthed star (Steve Gibson) to an afterhours nude wrestling meet. They just don't come any better than this!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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