Richard Egan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Egan (July 29, 1921 - July 20, 1987) was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Egan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 29, 1921
Deathday: July 20, 1987
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Pollyanna
1960-05-19
Pollyanna
Overview: A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Split Second
1953-05-02
Split Second
Overview: Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-02
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Wicked Woman
1953-12-09
Wicked Woman
Overview: Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-09
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977-01-01
Mission to Glory: A True Story
Overview: Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Damned Don't Cry
1950-05-13
The Damned Don't Cry
Overview: Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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Highway 301
1950-12-01
Highway 301
Overview: The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954-06-16
Demetrius and the Gladiators
Overview: The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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Gog
1954-06-04
Gog
Overview: A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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The Hunters
1958-09-01
The Hunters
Overview: With its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film based on the best-selling novel by veteran fighter pilot James Salter. Set during the height of the Korean War, the story centers on Major Cleve Saville (Robert Mitchum), a master of the newly operational F-86 Sabre fighter jets. But adept as he is at flying, Saville¹s personal life takes a nosedive when he falls in love with his wingman¹s (Lee Philips) beautiful wife (May Britt). To make matters worse, Saville must cope with a loud-mouthed rookie (Robert Wagner) in a daring rescue mission that threatens all their lives in this well-crafted war drama.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Hollywood Story
1951-06-01
Hollywood Story
Overview: A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Love Me Tender
1956-11-15
Love Me Tender
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
Genres: Drama Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Violent Saturday
1955-04-01
Violent Saturday
Overview: Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974-01-09
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Overview: A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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Untamed
1955-03-01
Untamed
Overview: When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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A Summer Place
1959-11-18
A Summer Place
Overview: A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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These Thousand Hills
1959-05-07
These Thousand Hills
Overview: A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-07
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The 300 Spartans
1962-08-01
The 300 Spartans
Overview: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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Undercover Girl
1950-11-02
Undercover Girl
Overview: After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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Voice in the Mirror
1958-08-13
Voice in the Mirror
Overview: Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. One night, he meets William Tobin, a fellow drunk, and finds that he helps himself by trying to help Tobin. Thus is born, amid setbacks, a group resembling Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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The Big Cube
1969-04-30
The Big Cube
Overview: A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957-09-01
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Overview: A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Tension at Table Rock
1956-10-03
Tension at Table Rock
Overview: When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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The Glory Brigade
1953-05-20
The Glory Brigade
Overview: During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines. Due to his Greek heritage Pryor is initially proud to accompany the Greek contingent but his feelings change to scorn and mistrust when what he believes is cowardice shown by the Greek soldiers and their leaders results in the near annihiliation of his own platoon. An uneasy alliance is maintained between the US and Greek troops as the enemy's true objective is learned.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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Moonfire
1973-01-01
Moonfire
Overview: Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The House That Would Not Die
1977-01-01
The House That Would Not Die
Overview: A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
1956-05-11
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Overview: In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-11
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Underwater!
1955-02-09
Underwater!
Overview: Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-09
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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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Wyoming Mail
1950-10-18
Wyoming Mail
Overview: In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952-12-24
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Overview: Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964-09-01
Fanfare for a Death Scene
Overview: An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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Throw Out the Anchor
1974-01-01
Throw Out the Anchor
Overview: A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Seven Cities of Gold
1955-10-07
Seven Cities of Gold
Overview: In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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One Minute to Zero
1952-09-19
One Minute to Zero
Overview: An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Esther and the King
1960-11-18
Esther and the King
Overview: Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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Khyber Patrol
1954-09-04
Khyber Patrol
Overview: British officers of India is jeopardized when warlords Ahmed Shir and Prince Ishak Khan battle at the Khyber Pass. Enter Capt. Kyle Cameron of the British Lancers, whose renegade style may either save the day or doom the region to chaos. When Cameron learns that greater forces are pulling the strings, he attempts to destroy Shir's rebel faction from within.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Cripple Creek
1952-06-30
Cripple Creek
Overview: It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-30
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The Destructors
1968-05-03
The Destructors
Overview: Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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The View from Pompey's Head
1955-11-04
The View from Pompey's Head
Overview: Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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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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The Day of the Wolves
1971-11-01
The Day of the Wolves
Overview: A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive at a ghost town and meet with the boss (Number #1, Jan Murray). All of the "Wolves" are assigned a number, wear identical overalls and instructed never to take off the gloves that they are given. They are only to address eachother by their numbers; in that way, if one is caught, he can't rat-out the others. Number #1 reveals to them that they will take over a town, and clean it out. Using the ghost town for training, they develop their tactics to fleece the town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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The Amsterdam Kill
1977-12-26
The Amsterdam Kill
Overview: Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the business. Quinlan's job is to use Chung's information to tip DEA agents to drug busts, thereby destroying the cartel. But when the first two "tips" go awry, resulting in murdered DEA officers, the feds must decide whether to trust Quinlan further...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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Bright Victory
1951-08-01
Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Up Front
1951-03-05
Up Front
Overview: Military comedy set during WWII, inspired by Bill Mauldin's popular newspaper cartoons of soldiers "Willie" and "Joe".
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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This Is Elvis
1981-04-03
This Is Elvis
Overview: Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close to him. This biographical docu-drama features rare footage of Elvis and dramatically recreated scenes from Elvis' life.
Genres: Drama Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
1976-09-22
The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Overview: During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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The Battle at Apache Pass
1952-05-09
The Battle at Apache Pass
Overview: Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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The Golden Horde
1951-09-30
The Golden Horde
Overview: The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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The Good Humor Man
1950-03-24
The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Valley of Mystery
1967-09-29
Valley of Mystery
Overview: A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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Mean Justice
1971-02-08
Mean Justice
Overview: Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, gas, cattle and oil, the ranch is a major employer of rough rugged cowboys in northern New Mexico. Unexpectedly, Moreno has been accused , and tried for the murder of the daughter of the Garret ranch's popular foreman (Denver Pyle). As luck turns against the Garret ranch, each man endures struggles against nature, competitors, and each other in order to keep the operation profitable.
Genres: Western Adventure Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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The Kid from Left Field
1953-07-01
The Kid from Left Field
Overview: Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Flame of Araby
1951-12-18
Flame of Araby
Overview: An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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Kansas Raiders
1950-11-15
Kansas Raiders
Overview: Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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The Sweet Creek County War
1979-01-25
The Sweet Creek County War
Overview: In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-25
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1950-10-06
The Killer That Stalked New York
Overview: In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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