Avery Schreiber
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Biography: Avery Schreiber (April 9, 1935 – January 7, 2002) was an American comedian and actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: April 09, 1935
Deathday: January 07, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Best Chest in the West
Overview: What happens when dozens of beautiful California girls compete for the title of “BEST CHEST IN THE WEST”? In this show, anything goes! Dick Shawn hosts this fun-filled show packed with comedy, dancing, music and of course the best chests in the West. Celebrity judges Pat McCormick, Carol Wayne and Avery Schreiber pick winners in the three different categories: Itty-Bitties, Middle-Weights and Hefty Honies. These girls will do just about anything to influence the judges as well as the celebrity filled audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Scavenger Hunt
Overview: An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Galaxina
Overview: Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Southern Double Cross
Overview: An American couple on vacation in Mexico are set up by criminals to become unwitting smugglers in this low-budget farce.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-12
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Silent Scream
Overview: Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Swashbuckler
Overview: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-29
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Saturday the 14th Strikes Back
Overview: Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage way, but they are soon to discover the wacky evil it releases.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-26
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The Pound Puppies
Overview: A female dog from a wealthy family named Violet Vanderfeller is picked up and taken to the city pound, where she meets the gang and discovers their mission of uniting themselves up with homes. The special centers on Violet attempting to reunite with her family, ultimately succeeding.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-26
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Caveman
Overview: Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid dinosaurs.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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Goldilocks
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-31
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Don't Drink the Water
Overview: The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-11
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Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
Overview: During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-18
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Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me
Overview: Television special in which Lindsay Wagner sings, re-enacts her wedding day, plays in a silent-comedy spoof, meets Paul Anka, swims a la Esther Williams and plays Guinevere to Michael Brandon's Lancelot.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-07
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Escape
Overview: A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-06
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
Overview: Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece Amy, is missing. But that's only if Benny stays alive for 48 hours. If not, evil butler Snerdly and his mad Russian Wolfhound are next in line - and he's quick to pull every trick in the book to do poor Benny in and the troop sets off to rescue Benny and find the lost heir Amy.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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The Monitors
Overview: Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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Christmas at Walt Disney World
Overview: Holiday special from 1978 featuring various Disney characters.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-10
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Jimmy the Kid
Overview: Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-12
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Hunk
Overview: A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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More Wild Wild West
Overview: Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.
Genres: Western Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-07
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Overview: This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Pinocchio
Overview: A lonely wood-carver named Geppetto wishes for a son one night before going to bed. The Blue Fairy comes while he sleeps and partially grants the wish by turning his latest puppet, Pinocchio, into a living marionette. Pinocchio can himself fulfill Geppetto's wish of a real human son if he can prove himself to be a good soul. However, the road to becoming a real boy seems to never end, since his innocence continuously causes a problem, especially when the Evil Gypsy and his two goons want to exploit him. Not to mention, every time that he misbehaves or lies, his nose grows...
Genres: Fantasy Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-14
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Overview: When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Overview: Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-28
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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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All Commercials... A Steve Martin Special
Overview: Steve Martin's third NBC special serves as a salute to 1970s television commercials. Taking shots at everything from "Suzy Chapstick" to Palmolive to advertising agencies, this special showcased Martin's genius for physical comedy.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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Second Chance
Overview: A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-08
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Overview: Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Nightsong
Overview: A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American singer played by long-forgotten folk sensation Willie Wright. (Courtesy Chicago Film Archives)
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Glory Years
Overview: A group of former high-school buddies have a reunion in Las Vegas. Thinking to increase their alumni fund, they proceed to use it to gamble at the casinos. Of course, they lose it all. They then get together and try to figure out a way to win it all back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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