Darryl Hickman
Biography: Darryl Hickman (July 28, 1931 - May 21, 2024) emerged as a prominent American actor whose career transitioned from childhood stardom to adult roles. Starting in the industry at a young age, he showcased his talent in notable films like "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Human Comedy." Hickman's versatility allowed him to navigate between acting and later, directing, contributing to television shows such as "The Wonderful World of Disney" and "Gunsmoke." His passion for the craft extended to writing, publishing insightful books on the entertainment business and being an acting coach. Hickman's enduring career spanned decades, marking him not only as a seasoned performer but also as a multifaceted contributor to the entertainment world.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 28, 1931
Deathday: May 21, 2024
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Network
1976-11-14
Network
Overview: When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-14
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Keeper of the Flame
1943-04-01
Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946-08-19
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Overview: Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-19
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Alias Nick Beal
1949-03-04
Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
1960-03-04
Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Overview: Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship with the Apaches. But when a vengeful Geronimo initiates a violent campaign against the settlers, Slaughter himself must fight-- to maintain peace and honor among the warring groups.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-04
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The Tingler
1959-07-29
The Tingler
Overview: A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Sharky's Machine
1981-12-18
Sharky's Machine
Overview: Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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Tea and Sympathy
1956-09-27
Tea and Sympathy
Overview: A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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The Set-Up
1949-03-29
The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Leave Her to Heaven
1945-12-25
Leave Her to Heaven
Overview: A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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The Human Comedy
1943-03-02
The Human Comedy
Overview: Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-02
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Queen Esther
1992-02-27
Queen Esther
Overview: This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-27
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Lightning Strikes Twice
1951-04-12
Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Mob Town
1941-10-03
Mob Town
Overview: Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Young People
1940-08-30
Young People
Overview: Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Glamour Boy
1941-12-05
Glamour Boy
Overview: Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-05
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Jackass Mail
1942-07-01
Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Any Number Can Play
1949-07-15
Any Number Can Play
Overview: When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-15
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Men of Boys Town
1941-04-11
Men of Boys Town
Overview: Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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The Happy Years
1950-07-07
The Happy Years
Overview: Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Destination Gobi
1953-03-20
Destination Gobi
Overview: A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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Salty O'Rourke
1945-03-22
Salty O'Rourke
Overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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If I Were King
1938-09-28
If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Jonah
1992-01-01
Jonah
Overview: From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Jonah" tells the story of the Prophet Jonah and his attempt to escape his responsibilities.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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And Now Tomorrow
1944-11-22
And Now Tomorrow
Overview: Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-22
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The Easter Story
1990-01-01
The Easter Story
Overview: The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, and 'their nomad friend' Moki—who travel back in time to watch biblical events take place in the past. This segment of the story tells about the time the time travelers encounter Mark as he is gathering material to write the Gospel of Mark. He informs them of the events surrounding the Garden of Gethsemene, Jesus' numerous trials before Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate, as well as the Crucifixion and Resurrection. He finishes by telling them of the Ascension.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Big Town Scandal
1948-05-27
Big Town Scandal
Overview: A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
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Sign of the Wolf
1941-03-25
Sign of the Wolf
Overview: Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-25
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Prisoner of War
1954-05-04
Prisoner of War
Overview: American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986-04-19
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Overview: Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Boys' Ranch
1946-07-18
Boys' Ranch
Overview: A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-18
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Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Aftermath: A Test of Love
1991-03-10
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Overview: Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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The Iron Sheriff
1957-04-01
The Iron Sheriff
Overview: Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Sainted Sisters
1948-04-30
The Sainted Sisters
Overview: Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border. However, this small town's residents aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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A Kiss for Corliss
1949-11-25
A Kiss for Corliss
Overview: After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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Kiss and Tell
1945-10-04
Kiss and Tell
Overview: Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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Two Years Before the Mast
1946-11-22
Two Years Before the Mast
Overview: In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-22
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Southwest Passage
1954-04-01
Southwest Passage
Overview: Director Ray Nazarro's 1954 western, originally filmed in 3-D, stars John Ireland and Joanne Dru as fugitive bank robbers who hide out by joining a government expedition bound for California.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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Fighting Father Dunne
1948-05-12
Fighting Father Dunne
Overview: A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Dangerous Years
1947-12-07
Dangerous Years
Overview: Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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Crossroads - U.S.A.
1952-02-02
Crossroads - U.S.A.
Overview: Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-02
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The Persuader
1957-05-04
The Persuader
Overview: In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The Persuader. Talman is seen as gunslinger Matt Bonham and his twin brother, preacher Mark Bonham. When Mark is killed by outlaw leader Bick Justin (James Craig), Matt takes his brother's place in the pulpit, ramming the Fear of God down the throats of the wanton townspeople. Impressed by Bonham's courage, the townsfolk begin to follow the straight and narrow path.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-04
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1944-01-13
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Overview: Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-13
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993-08-31
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
Overview: There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her films saved a movie studio from bankruptcy, and a President credited her with raising the morale of Depression-weary Americans. Her earliest movies gave a foretaste of her talents and soon would become the songs and dances that helped make those movies immortal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-31
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944-11-28
Meet Me in St. Louis
Overview: Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Untamed
1940-07-24
Untamed
Overview: A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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Island in the Sky
1953-09-05
Island in the Sky
Overview: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Emergency Squad
Overview: Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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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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Joe Smith, American
1942-02-01
Joe Smith, American
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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Northwest Rangers
1942-10-28
Northwest Rangers
Overview: Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-28
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Song of Russia
1944-02-10
Song of Russia
Overview: American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
Genres: Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Submarine Command
1951-11-01
Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Tab Hunter Confidential
2015-03-15
Tab Hunter Confidential
Overview: Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
Captain Eddie
Overview: WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-18
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The Tragedy of King Lear
1982-12-31
The Tragedy of King Lear
Overview: Mike Kellin as Lear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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The Way of All Flesh
1940-07-05
The Way of All Flesh
Overview: Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-05
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Mystery Sea Raider
1940-10-26
Mystery Sea Raider
Overview: June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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Rhapsody in Blue
1945-06-27
Rhapsody in Blue
Overview: Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Black Gold
1947-09-16
Black Gold
Overview: A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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Coffins on Wheels
1941-06-07
Coffins on Wheels
Overview: Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-07
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Looker
1981-10-30
Looker
Overview: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Johnny Shiloh
1963-01-20
Johnny Shiloh
Overview: Johnny Shiloh is a 1963 made for TV film that originally aired in two parts on the Wonderful World of Disney in Color. It was released in other countries theatrically as one film and is on DVD as one film. Johnny Shiloh is the true story about Johnny Clem, the ten year old drummer boy who became a union officer in the Civil War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-20
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Ricochet Romance
1954-11-01
Ricochet Romance
Overview: Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces everyone around her to pitch in and bring some life back into the place. She also sets her sights on old layabout Chill Wills, scheming to rope the critter into marriage. Veteran comedy director Charles W. Lamont moves the proceedings along with style, never missing an opportunity for a low-comedy slapstick turn. The most surprising aspect of Ricochet Romance is that it is not an entry in Marjorie Main's Ma and Pa Kettle series.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Farmer's Daughter
1940-03-29
The Farmer's Daughter
Overview: Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-29
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Young America
1942-02-06
Young America
Overview: Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Going to Press
1942-03-07
Going to Press
Overview: The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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Sea of Lost Ships
1953-10-24
Sea of Lost Ships
Overview: The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-24
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Prairie Law
1940-06-14
Prairie Law
Overview: Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can preside at the trial. But Brill gets the Governor to change it back and this leads to the big shootout between Curry's men and Brill and the ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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Criminal Lawyer
1951-08-23
Criminal Lawyer
Overview: A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-23
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