George Furth
Biography: George Furth (born George Schweinfurth; December 14, 1932 – August 11, 2008) was an American librettist, playwright, and actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 14, 1932
Deathday: August 11, 2008
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969-09-23
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Overview: As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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The New Interns
1964-06-01
The New Interns
Overview: Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Shampoo
1975-02-11
Shampoo
Overview: A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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The Boston Strangler
1968-10-08
The Boston Strangler
Overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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MegaForce
1982-06-25
MegaForce
Overview: MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments wont. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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For the Use of the Hall
1975-01-02
For the Use of the Hall
Overview: A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Hooper
1978-07-28
Hooper
Overview: Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-28
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Bulworth
1998-05-15
Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Norman... Is That You?
1976-09-29
Norman... Is That You?
Overview: Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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A Rage to Live
1965-10-20
A Rage to Live
Overview: Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
1968-05-24
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Overview: A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-24
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How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968-01-17
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Overview: Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-17
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The Third Girl from the Left
1973-10-16
The Third Girl from the Left
Overview: A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Let's Switch!
1975-01-07
Let's Switch!
Overview: Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine, decide to swap lifestyles between them.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Nobody's Perfect
1968-01-12
Nobody's Perfect
Overview: This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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Oh, God!
1977-10-07
Oh, God!
Overview: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988-08-16
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Overview: Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-16
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Airport '77
1977-03-11
Airport '77
Overview: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Tales of Washington Irving
1970-11-01
Tales of Washington Irving
Overview: This 1970 animated special contains two versions of Washington Irving's most popular stories; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - about the headless horseman (who makes a too brief appearance), and Rip Van Winkle - the man who fell asleep and awoke years later. It originally aired on TV between Halloween and Thanksgiving in the early 1970s and was later released on VHS home video by MGM in 1987 but it's currently out of print.
Genres: Animation Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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Blazing Saddles
1974-02-07
Blazing Saddles
Overview: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-07
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P.J.
1968-03-27
P.J.
Overview: Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966-11-26
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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A Very Special Favor
1965-08-02
A Very Special Favor
Overview: The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-02
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Myra Breckinridge
1970-06-24
Myra Breckinridge
Overview: Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
1980-05-19
The Scarlett O'Hara War
Overview: The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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Young Doctors in Love
1982-07-16
Young Doctors in Love
Overview: An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-16
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Tammy and the Millionaire
1967-05-01
Tammy and the Millionaire
Overview: A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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The Cool Ones
1967-04-12
The Cool Ones
Overview: A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-12
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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
1977-06-09
Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging
Overview: A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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The Man with Two Brains
1983-06-10
The Man with Two Brains
Overview: A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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The Cannonball Run
1981-06-19
The Cannonball Run
Overview: A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.
Genres: Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-19
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Doctor Detroit
1983-05-06
Doctor Detroit
Overview: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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Original Cast Album: Company
1970-10-28
Original Cast Album: Company
Overview: In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Goodbye Lover
1999-04-16
Goodbye Lover
Overview: Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971-02-01
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Overview: An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016-11-18
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
Overview: This film from acclaimed theater director Lonny Price charts the journey of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" in the 30-plus years since the musical debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1981.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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The Best Man
1964-04-05
The Best Man
Overview: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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Games
1967-09-17
Games
Overview: A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-17
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What Are Best Friends For?
1973-12-18
What Are Best Friends For?
Overview: A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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