Richard Rober
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 14, 1910
Deathday: May 26, 1952
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Call Northside 777
1948-02-13
Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Father's Little Dividend
1951-04-05
Father's Little Dividend
Overview: Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Port of New York
1949-11-28
Port of New York
Overview: Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-28
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Larceny
1948-09-03
Larceny
Overview: Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Deported
1950-11-01
Deported
Overview: The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Backfire
1950-01-26
Backfire
Overview: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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The Tall Target
1951-08-17
The Tall Target
Overview: A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Genres: Thriller History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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The Woman on Pier 13
1950-06-15
The Woman on Pier 13
Overview: Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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The File on Thelma Jordon
1949-11-04
The File on Thelma Jordon
Overview: Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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The Well
1951-09-24
The Well
Overview: In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-24
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Dial 1119
1950-11-03
Dial 1119
Overview: A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Man in the Saddle
1951-12-02
Man in the Saddle
Overview: A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-02
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Illegal Entry
1949-06-01
Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
1948-10-09
Smart Girls Don't Talk
Overview: A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-09
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Kid Monk Baroni
1952-05-01
Kid Monk Baroni
Overview: Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Jet Pilot
1957-10-11
Jet Pilot
Overview: John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Outlaw Women
1952-04-28
Outlaw Women
Overview: A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-28
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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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The Devil Makes Three
1952-09-19
The Devil Makes Three
Overview: Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Sierra
1950-05-26
Sierra
Overview: Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Embraceable You
1948-08-21
Embraceable You
Overview: Eddie, a small-time hoodlum is forced to care for Marie he accidentally hits with his car during a crime. He is broke and hits up his very displeased mob boss for cash. To make matters worse, Eddie and Marie begin to fall for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-21
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Watch the Birdie
1950-12-11
Watch the Birdie
Overview: A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-11
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Sheik to Sheik
1936-10-10
Sheik to Sheik
Overview: A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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The Savage
1952-09-01
The Savage
Overview: The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Passage West
1951-10-01
Passage West
Overview: In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Task Force
1949-08-30
Task Force
Overview: After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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April Showers
1948-03-27
April Showers
Overview: A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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The Rose Bowl Story
1952-08-24
The Rose Bowl Story
Overview: The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-24
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O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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