Walter Brooke
Biography: Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics". He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C. Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Brooke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 13, 1914
Deathday: August 20, 1986
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The Male Animal
1942-03-12
The Male Animal
Overview: The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-12
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Conquest of Space
1955-04-20
Conquest of Space
Overview: A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-20
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The Return of Count Yorga
1971-08-18
The Return of Count Yorga
Overview: Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Executive Action
1973-11-07
Executive Action
Overview: Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-07
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The Graduate
1967-12-21
The Graduate
Overview: Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Framed
1975-08-01
Framed
Overview: Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-01
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C-Man
1949-05-27
C-Man
Overview: A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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The Landlord
1970-05-20
The Landlord
Overview: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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The Green Hornet
1974-03-21
The Green Hornet
Overview: After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Zig Zag
1970-05-01
Zig Zag
Overview: A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969-05-13
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Overview: A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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North Dallas Forty
1979-08-03
North Dallas Forty
Overview: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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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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The Astronaut
1972-01-08
The Astronaut
Overview: An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and government funding decide to cover up the accident by employing an exact double for the lost astronaut. The ruse begins to unravel when the wife of the lost astronaut realizes she is living with a different man. Although angered by the deception, the woman has fallen in love with the replacement and plans to keep the secret. They both have a change of heart and decide to reveal the secret when they discover a new Mars mission is underway.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-08
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The Party Crashers
1958-09-01
The Party Crashers
Overview: Troubled teenagers, ineffectual parents, and a climactic tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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Desperate Journey
1942-09-26
Desperate Journey
Overview: During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-26
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Bullet Scars
1942-03-07
Bullet Scars
Overview: Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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How Sweet It Is!
1968-08-21
How Sweet It Is!
Overview: All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Stowaway to the Moon
1975-01-10
Stowaway to the Moon
Overview: E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
Genres: Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-10
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Visions of Christmas Past
1979-12-28
Visions of Christmas Past
Overview: A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husband as she sets off in a snow storm to buy a Christmas tree for her family.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-28
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971-02-22
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Bloodlust!
1961-09-13
Bloodlust!
Overview: Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Fury of the Dragon
1976-10-14
Fury of the Dragon
Overview: Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-14
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Fun with Dick and Jane
1977-03-18
Fun with Dick and Jane
Overview: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
1974-08-20
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Overview: Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family's house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-20
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All Through the Night
1942-01-10
All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Scruples
1981-05-22
Scruples
Overview: Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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In Search of Historic Jesus
1979-08-01
In Search of Historic Jesus
Overview: Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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San Francisco International
1970-09-29
San Francisco International
Overview: This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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Time Travelers
1976-03-19
Time Travelers
Overview: When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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Make Me an Offer
1980-01-11
Make Me an Offer
Overview: Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-11
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Advice to the Lovelorn
1981-11-30
Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-30
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Mirror, Mirror
1979-10-10
Mirror, Mirror
Overview: A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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The Big Bus
1976-06-23
The Big Bus
Overview: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Nude Bomb
1980-05-09
The Nude Bomb
Overview: When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-09
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Marooned
1969-12-11
Marooned
Overview: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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Murder in the Big House
1942-04-11
Murder in the Big House
Overview: When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-11
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Beyond Reason
1985-09-26
Beyond Reason
Overview: An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Sergeant Ryker
1968-02-01
Sergeant Ryker
Overview: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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Separate Ways
1981-05-01
Separate Ways
Overview: A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Jagged Edge
1985-10-04
Jagged Edge
Overview: After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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The Mephisto Waltz
1971-04-09
The Mephisto Waltz
Overview: A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Harrad Summer
1974-08-01
Harrad Summer
Overview: Stanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth, four students from the 'free sex' Harrad College, spend the summer together to meet their families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Beggarman, Thief
1979-11-26
Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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The New Adventures of Heidi
1978-12-13
The New Adventures of Heidi
Overview: The long-familiar Heidi tale is given a contemporary (and musical) setting as the young heroine leaves her familiar Swiss mountain for the bright lights of Manhattan.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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Yours, Mine and Ours
1968-04-24
Yours, Mine and Ours
Overview: When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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The Chadwick Family
1974-04-17
The Chadwick Family
Overview: A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-17
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Lawman
1971-03-11
Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Winter Kill
1974-04-15
Winter Kill
Overview: Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-15
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A Tattered Web
1971-09-24
A Tattered Web
Overview: A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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The Andromeda Strain
1971-03-12
The Andromeda Strain
Overview: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Black Sunday
1977-04-01
Black Sunday
Overview: An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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In This Our Life
1942-05-08
In This Our Life
Overview: An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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The Other Side of the Mountain
1975-11-14
The Other Side of the Mountain
Overview: One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-14
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The Pinballs
1977-10-26
The Pinballs
Overview: Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974-03-06
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Overview: A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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St. Ives
1976-02-24
St. Ives
Overview: A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-24
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White Water Rebels
1983-01-08
White Water Rebels
Overview: James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-08
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Street Killing
1976-09-12
Street Killing
Overview: In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-12
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