Philip Ahn
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 29, 1905
Deathday: February 28, 1978
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Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
Shock Corridor
Overview: With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-25
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The Karate Killers
1967-04-07
The Karate Killers
Overview: International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Women in the Night
1948-01-02
Women in the Night
Overview: During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Impact
1949-03-20
Impact
Overview: After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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Macao
1952-04-11
Macao
Overview: Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-11
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North of Shanghai
1939-01-24
North of Shanghai
Overview: In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938-12-30
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Overview: While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Stowaway
1936-12-25
Stowaway
Overview: Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.
Genres: Music Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Hell's Half Acre
1954-06-01
Hell's Half Acre
Overview: A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Across the Pacific
1942-09-04
Across the Pacific
Overview: Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Betrayal from the East
1945-04-24
Betrayal from the East
Overview: A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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Battle Zone
1952-10-26
Battle Zone
Overview: Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean lines their rivalry reaches a boiling point.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-26
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The Left Hand of God
1955-09-02
The Left Hand of God
Overview: A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Halls of Montezuma
1951-01-04
Halls of Montezuma
Overview: Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-04
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Jump Into Hell
1955-04-01
Jump Into Hell
Overview: Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Intrigue
1947-12-06
Intrigue
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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The Keys of the Kingdom
1944-12-15
The Keys of the Kingdom
Overview: A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937-11-26
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Overview: Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Japanese War Bride
1952-01-29
Japanese War Bride
Overview: A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-29
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943-02-19
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Overview: A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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Back to Bataan
1945-05-30
Back to Bataan
Overview: An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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China Girl
1942-12-09
China Girl
Overview: Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-09
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The Chinese Ring
1947-12-06
The Chinese Ring
Overview: Soon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a poison dart fired by an air rifle.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976-04-04
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
Overview: After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-04
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Target Hong Kong
1953-02-06
Target Hong Kong
Overview: Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-06
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937-12-24
Thank You, Mr. Moto
Overview: Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962-06-20
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Overview: Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Daughter of Shanghai
1937-12-17
Daughter of Shanghai
Overview: A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-17
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A Yank on the Burma Road
1942-01-29
A Yank on the Burma Road
Overview: A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Dragon Seed
1944-07-20
Dragon Seed
Overview: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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God Is My Co-Pilot
1945-04-07
God Is My Co-Pilot
Overview: Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-07
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Hong Kong Confidential
1958-10-01
Hong Kong Confidential
Overview: An undercover U.S. agent searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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China
1943-04-21
China
Overview: Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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China Passage
1937-03-12
China Passage
Overview: Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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A Girl Named Tamiko
1962-12-27
A Girl Named Tamiko
Overview: A photographer based in Tokyo, who's in love with local beauty Tamiko, begins to court an embassy official so she can help him gain entry into the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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The Way to the Gold
1957-05-10
The Way to the Gold
Overview: Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-10
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
1966-04-23
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Overview: Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake
1970-09-24
The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake
Overview: Previously lost exploitation film about a youth serum and the crooks who try to steal it.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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The Shanghai Story
1954-09-01
The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Singapore
1947-08-13
Singapore
Overview: After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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The Big Hangover
1950-05-26
The Big Hangover
Overview: A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Red Barry
1938-10-18
Red Barry
Overview: A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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Forever Yours
1945-01-26
Forever Yours
Overview: A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-26
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Barricade
1939-12-08
Barricade
Overview: In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Panama Patrol
1939-03-20
Panama Patrol
Overview: A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
Genres: Mystery Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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The Creeper
1948-09-01
The Creeper
Overview: Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Hawaii Calls
1938-03-12
Hawaii Calls
Overview: After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Disputed Passage
1939-10-25
Disputed Passage
Overview: A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-25
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The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
The Purple Heart
Overview: This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-25
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King of Chinatown
1939-03-17
King of Chinatown
Overview: A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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The Sickle or the Cross
1949-07-01
The Sickle or the Cross
Overview: Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972-02-22
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Overview: After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Cocoon
1968-09-20
Cocoon
Overview: In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-20
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Fair Wind to Java
1953-01-28
Fair Wind to Java
Overview: The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Great Impostor
1960-12-23
The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Never So Few
1959-12-07
Never So Few
Overview: A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-07
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Shanghai
1935-07-19
Shanghai
Overview: A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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Desirable
1934-09-08
Desirable
Overview: A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-08
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They Met in Bombay
1941-06-27
They Met in Bombay
Overview: A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967-03-22
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Overview: Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Diamond Head
1962-12-27
Diamond Head
Overview: Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-27
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Drums of Fu Manchu
1940-03-15
Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Klondike Annie
1936-02-21
Klondike Annie
Overview: A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942-05-01
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Overview: After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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The Miracle of the Bells
1948-03-27
The Miracle of the Bells
Overview: The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Something to Sing About
1937-09-30
Something to Sing About
Overview: James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Rogues' Regiment
1948-12-28
Rogues' Regiment
Overview: A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973-10-23
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Overview: Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-23
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Secrets of Monte Carlo
1951-06-20
Secrets of Monte Carlo
Overview: A U.S. businessman abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944-07-04
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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The World's Greatest Athlete
1973-02-14
The World's Greatest Athlete
Overview: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Battle Hymn
1957-02-14
Battle Hymn
Overview: Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in the Korean War, he finds Korean orphans raiding the airbase garbage. With a pretty Korean teacher, he sets up an orphanage for them and others.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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China Sky
1945-05-16
China Sky
Overview: During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-16
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Red Snow
1952-07-07
Red Snow
Overview: Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-07
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955-08-18
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943-01-05
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Overview: A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-05
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Submarine Raider
1942-06-04
Submarine Raider
Overview: On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-04
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949-03-02
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Overview: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-02
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Yesterday's Enemy
1959-09-10
Yesterday's Enemy
Overview: Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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Roaring Timber
1937-07-03
Roaring Timber
Overview: Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-03
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I Was an American Spy
1951-04-14
I Was an American Spy
Overview: An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-14
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The Cobra Strikes
1948-04-24
The Cobra Strikes
Overview: A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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The General Died at Dawn
1936-11-17
The General Died at Dawn
Overview: China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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Let's Get Tough
1942-05-29
Let's Get Tough
Overview: Rejected by the Army, Marines, and Navy for being too young, the punks help the war effort by throwing fruit at a shop they believe is owned by a Japanese American. Confronted by him wielding a short sword, the gang decides to come back at night but find him dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943-04-06
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Overview: Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Around the World
1943-11-27
Around the World
Overview: Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Behind the Rising Sun
1943-08-01
Behind the Rising Sun
Overview: A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-01
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December 7th
1943-03-01
December 7th
Overview: "Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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State Department: File 649
1949-02-11
State Department: File 649
Overview: Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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China's Little Devils
1945-05-27
China's Little Devils
Overview: In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-27
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The Good Earth
1937-06-02
The Good Earth
Overview: China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-02
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China Corsair
1951-06-12
China Corsair
Overview: A stranded U.S. ship's engineer (Jon Hall) helps a Eurasian beauty (Lisa Ferraday) with coveted antique jade.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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His Majesty O'Keefe
1954-01-16
His Majesty O'Keefe
Overview: Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster is His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbuckler genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-16
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Ship Ahoy
1942-04-16
Ship Ahoy
Overview: Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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One-Eyed Jacks
1961-03-30
One-Eyed Jacks
Overview: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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A Scream in the Night
1935-07-29
A Scream in the Night
Overview: A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-29
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They Were Expendable
1945-12-07
They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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China Venture
1953-09-07
China Venture
Overview: American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
1974-06-11
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
Overview: Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-11
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Island of Lost Men
1939-08-16
Island of Lost Men
Overview: A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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