Alan Dexter
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 21, 1918
Deathday: December 19, 1983
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Paint Your Wagon
1969-10-15
Paint Your Wagon
Overview: A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Helter Skelter
1976-04-01
Helter Skelter
Overview: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Loose Shoes
1978-09-01
Loose Shoes
Overview: Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-01
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The Enemy Below
1957-12-25
The Enemy Below
Overview: The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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The Eternal Sea
1955-04-19
The Eternal Sea
Overview: Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Cell 2455 Death Row
1955-04-19
Cell 2455 Death Row
Overview: A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Down Three Dark Streets
1954-09-02
Down Three Dark Streets
Overview: An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Forbidden
1953-12-02
Forbidden
Overview: Eddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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City of Bad Men
1953-09-11
City of Bad Men
Overview: Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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Column South
1953-05-20
Column South
Overview: In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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The Mississippi Gambler
1953-01-29
The Mississippi Gambler
Overview: Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Genres: Romance Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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My Man and I
1952-09-05
My Man and I
Overview: In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Okinawa
1952-02-28
Okinawa
Overview: On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces that they've been reassigned to the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. With the news turning the crew against him, Hale must rise to the occasion to keep his men inline.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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Sailor Beware
1952-02-08
Sailor Beware
Overview: Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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This Is the Army
1943-08-14
This Is the Army
Overview: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-14
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Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
Kiss Me, Stupid
Overview: While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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Step Down to Terror
1958-09-01
Step Down to Terror
Overview: Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-01
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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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It Came from Outer Space
1953-06-05
It Came from Outer Space
Overview: Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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The Slowest Gun in the West
1960-05-07
The Slowest Gun in the West
Overview: The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-07
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Gable and Lombard
1976-02-11
Gable and Lombard
Overview: A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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Girls in the Night
1953-01-15
Girls in the Night
Overview: Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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Operation Petticoat
1959-12-05
Operation Petticoat
Overview: A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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The Unguarded Moment
1956-12-27
The Unguarded Moment
Overview: A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-27
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No Right to Kill
1956-08-09
No Right to Kill
Overview: This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-09
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1958-10-01
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Overview: Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Pushover
1954-07-14
Pushover
Overview: A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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The Brass Bottle
1964-05-20
The Brass Bottle
Overview: A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-20
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Time Limit
1957-10-23
Time Limit
Overview: Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing Edwards to move this case to court martial, Edwards becomes convinced of Cargill's innocence.
Genres: Drama Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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