Peter Whitney
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 24, 1916
Deathday: March 30, 1972
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In the Heat of the Night
1967-08-02
In the Heat of the Night
Overview: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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Destination Tokyo
1943-12-31
Destination Tokyo
Overview: During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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Action in the North Atlantic
1943-06-12
Action in the North Atlantic
Overview: Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-12
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970-03-18
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Overview: Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
Genres: Comedy Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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The Gangster
1947-11-25
The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Three Strangers
1946-01-28
Three Strangers
Overview: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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The Big Heat
1953-10-14
The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Buchanan Rides Alone
1958-08-01
Buchanan Rides Alone
Overview: Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Violence
1947-05-09
Violence
Overview: Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-09
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Blonde Alibi
1946-03-01
Blonde Alibi
Overview: Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-01
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The Cruel Tower
1956-10-28
The Cruel Tower
Overview: The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-28
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The Sword of Ali Baba
1965-04-01
The Sword of Ali Baba
Overview: Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Blues in the Night
1941-11-15
Blues in the Night
Overview: A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Rio Rita
1942-03-11
Rio Rita
Overview: Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Gorilla at Large
1954-05-01
Gorilla at Large
Overview: At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Whistling in Dixie
1942-12-31
Whistling in Dixie
Overview: Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-31
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Man from Del Rio
1956-10-30
Man from Del Rio
Overview: Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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The Brute Man
1946-10-01
The Brute Man
Overview: A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-01
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941-09-20
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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Busses Roar
1942-09-19
Busses Roar
Overview: A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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Murder, He Says
1945-06-23
Murder, He Says
Overview: Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete then believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-23
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The Great Sioux Uprising
1953-07-17
The Great Sioux Uprising
Overview: During the Civil War, in Wyoming, horse dealers Joan Britton and Stephen Cook are competing to supply the Union Army with horses. A Cherokee is in the area to stir up the Sioux against the Union just as Cook decides to steal a herd of Sioux horses. Ex-army doctor Jonathan Westgate opposes Cook’s unscrupulous methods as well as being Cook’s rival for the affections of Joan. It seems Westgate is the only one able to prevent a new Indian war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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The Black Dakotas
1954-09-02
The Black Dakotas
Overview: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Valley of the Sun
1942-02-06
Valley of the Sun
Overview: An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Pericles on 31st Street
1962-04-12
Pericles on 31st Street
Overview: Racial tensions break out on 31st Street, a multi-ethnic community. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Harry Mark Petrakis novel for NBC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for NBC's The Dick Powell Theatre, premiering on Apr. 12, 1962.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-12
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Fremont: The Trailblazer
1956-01-01
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Overview: Fremont: The Trailblazer was a television pilot episode that never aired.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Domino Kid
1957-10-01
Domino Kid
Overview: A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962-08-07
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Overview: The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Genres: Fantasy Family Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-07
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Hotel Berlin
1945-03-02
Hotel Berlin
Overview: An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-02
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Chubasco
1968-04-14
Chubasco
Overview: A wild beach boy takes a job on a tuna fishing boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Day of Triumph
1954-12-25
Day of Triumph
Overview: A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946-02-14
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Overview: Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Underground
1941-06-28
Underground
Overview: A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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Spy Ship
1942-06-06
Spy Ship
Overview: A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-06
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Mr. Skeffington
1944-05-25
Mr. Skeffington
Overview: A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Bring on the Girls
1945-03-30
Bring on the Girls
Overview: A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-30
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Great Day in the Morning
1956-05-16
Great Day in the Morning
Overview: After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Northwest Outpost
1947-06-25
Northwest Outpost
Overview: US cavalry officer James Laurence (Nelson Eddy) arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin (Hugo Haas), who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova (Ilona Massey), the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin (Joseph Schildkraut).
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Last Frontier
1955-12-07
The Last Frontier
Overview: Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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The Sea Chase
1955-06-04
The Sea Chase
Overview: As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-04
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Reunion in France
1942-12-25
Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The Great Bank Robbery
1969-06-24
The Great Bank Robbery
Overview: A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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Baptism of Fire
1943-12-01
Baptism of Fire
Overview: Baptism of Fire is a 1943 American documentary, meant to be an Army training film. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
Canyon Passage
Overview: In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-17
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Mountain Fighters
1943-08-07
Mountain Fighters
Overview: A color visit to Camp Hale, Colorado's US Army training center.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-07
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Proceed and Report
1943-11-03
Proceed and Report
Overview: Ensign Murphy is ordered to his first duty in the U.S. Navy. He learns (often the hard way) the means of transporting himself properly from one assignment to another, the proper etiquette for boarding a vessel, interacting with his superior officers, maintaining his belongings, and conducting himself aboard ship. Other more experienced naval officers help him and correct the many errors he makes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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