Bill Walker
Also Known As: William 'Bill' Walker, William A. Walker, William Walker, William Walter, Bill Walker, William Franklin Walker
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pendleton, Indiana, USA
Birthday: July 01, 1896
Deathday: January 27, 1992
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Overview: An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-15
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Lydia Bailey
Overview: A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Our Man Flint
Overview: When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-16
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The Long, Hot Summer
Overview: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-17
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The Well
Overview: In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-24
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Overview: An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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The Big Knife
Overview: Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While his estranged wife supports him in the decision, Castle's talent agent urges him to reconsider. When Castle continues to be uncooperative, Hoff resorts to blackmail in order to get his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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Bright Road
Overview: Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-17
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The Girl Who Had Everything
Overview: Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-27
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Hot Spell
Overview: Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-21
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A Piece of the Action
Overview: How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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The I Don't Care Girl
Overview: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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4 for Texas
Overview: In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Boy Who Caught a Crook
Overview: The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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The Third Day
Overview: A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets suggests that he is a ruthless man with an aggressive temper. Could he be deliberately blocking out memories of his past?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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Killer Leopard
Overview: Movie actress Linda Winters has gone into the jungle to find her lost husband Fred. Bomba the Jungle Boy helps in the rescue effort. A major obstacle facing them is a killer leopard which specializes in tearing people limb from limb.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-22
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The President's Plane Is Missing
Overview: When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try to avert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-23
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Cry of the Hunted
Overview: A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Bomba on Panther Island
Overview: In this second film in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-18
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Kisses for My President
Overview: A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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The Last Child
Overview: In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-05
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Take a Giant Step
Overview: This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class white neighborhood in the late '50s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Follow the Sun
Overview: A biographical film of Ben Hogan, from his start as a golf caddy to being considered one of golf's greatest players.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-22
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The Family Secret
Overview: When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-21
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Lost in the Stars
Overview: A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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Street Music
Overview: A singer (Elizabeth Daily) and her bus-driver boyfriend (Larry Breeding) try to help elderly tenants save their San Francisco hotel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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The View from Pompey's Head
Overview: Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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The Day I Met Caruso
Overview: A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. She admonishes him for his extravagant lifestyle, but she is softened up somewhat when Caruso begins to sing arias from her favorite operas.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-05
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A Man Called Peter
Overview: Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-31
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Africa Screams
Overview: When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-04
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Raintree County
Overview: In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Woman in Hiding
Overview: As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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The Last Challenge
Overview: An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
Overview: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Jamaica Run
Overview: Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-21
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A Kiss Before Dying
Overview: A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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The Outcast
Overview: Thanks to the chicanery of his crooked uncle Major Cosgrave, Jet has been cheated out of his father's property and branded a pariah. He spends the rest of the film trying to regain his birthright and clear his name. The two women in Jet's life are Judy Polsen, who chases him for so long that he finally catches her, and Alice Austin, Major Cosgrave's fianee.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-15
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Overview: At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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Maurie
Overview: When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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The Harlem Globetrotters
Overview: All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-30
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Big Jake
Overview: An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Wall of Noise
Overview: The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner's wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he'll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-04
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The Golden Idol
Overview: Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli, and a beautiful archeologist, he foils Ali's plans.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-10
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Free For All
Overview: The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Another Part of the Forest
Overview: A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-02
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Dimension 5
Overview: An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Ride a Crooked Trail
Overview: After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Overview: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-20
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No Time for Romance
Overview: A talented young Black songwriter gets his big break in a New York Musical. His adversary tried to prevent him from auditioning for J.D. Richards, the renowned New York musical agent.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Peggy
Overview: Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Tick... Tick... Tick...
Overview: Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
Overview: Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Rebel City
Overview: Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-10
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The Gambler from Natchez
Overview: A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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Young Man with a Horn
Overview: Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Ransom for a Dead Man
Overview: A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-09
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
Overview: A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-02
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Queen Bee
Overview: A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sister-in-law is engaged to be married to the woman's former lover and her husband starts up an affair with her cousin, visting from New York, things start to go awry and she sets a plan to destroy it all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-07
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Sangaree
Overview: Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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Bad Boy
Overview: A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Deer in the Works
Overview: David Potter, owner of a small town weekly newspaper, decides to get a more secure job. Despite his wife's misgivings, he applies to be a publicity writer at the mammoth Ilium Works. Although shaken at seeing how the company immediately plans out his entire career, he accepts the position. He is then given his first assignment, recording the capture of a deer that has slipped onto the grounds of the Works.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Overview: Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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Bright Leaf
Overview: Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-16
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Jungle Drums of Africa
Overview: In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Overview: A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Night Without Sleep
Overview: Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Overview: A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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You Can't Run Away from It
Overview: A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Inspector Perez
Overview: Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-08
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Riot
Overview: A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-15
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The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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Shadow on the Land
Overview: Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Uptight
Overview: Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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