Dorothy Malone
Also Known As: Dorothy Eloise Maloney
Biography: Dorothy Malone (January 29, 1924 – January 19, 2018) was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and, in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies. After a decade, she began to acquire a more glamorous image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place from (1964–1968). Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in Basic Instinct in 1992. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: January 29, 1924
Deathday: January 19, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Big Sleep
Overview: Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-23
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Basic Instinct
Overview: Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-20
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The Fast and the Furious
Overview: A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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He's Not Your Son
Overview: Two couples face the possibility that their infant sons, both born on the same day, were inadvertently switched at the hospital, and a chain of revelations and decisions threatens both families.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Rest in Pieces
Overview: A newlywed couple move into the mansion of the bride's recently dead aunt. Soon strange things begin to happen when the various tenants and servants of the mansion don't want to leave and the bride and groom are in a deadly predicament.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-08-10
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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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Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
Overview: Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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The Killer That Stalked New York
Overview: In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Loophole
Overview: Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-28
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Beach Party
Overview: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-27
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Colorado Territory
Overview: After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
Genres: Western Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-11
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Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Private Hell 36
Overview: In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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Winter Kills
Overview: The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
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Artists and Models
Overview: A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-07
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Young at Heart
Overview: The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Warlock
Overview: A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-15
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Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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Night and Day
Overview: When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-02
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The Last Voyage
Overview: The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-19
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The Tarnished Angels
Overview: In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-21
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The Nevadan
Overview: A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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Pillars of the Sky
Overview: First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-14
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Flaxy Martin
Overview: Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-15
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The Last Sunset
Overview: At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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Golden Rendezvous
Overview: Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacked by a heavily armed group of mercenaries, led by John Vernon. Complicating matters, a nuclear warhead has been smuggled aboard as collateral for a rendezvous with another ocean liner, loaded with gold bullion. A cast full of supernovas, dazzling set & stunt work, and a catchy theme tune by Jeff Wayne create a pleasing audio-visual experience light on logic but fast paced and entertaining nonetheless.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-25
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Written on the Wind
Overview: Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-04
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Battle Cry
Overview: The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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The Being
Overview: Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Gildersleeve on Broadway
Overview: On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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Tension at Table Rock
Overview: When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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These Dead Souls
Overview: An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both backward and forward in order to show the film’s richly elaborated logic of part and whole, repetition and stasis, drama and entropy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-07
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Too Much, Too Soon
Overview: The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-17
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Tall Man Riding
Overview: Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-18
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The Day Time Ended
Overview: Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Law and Order
Overview: Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-13
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Five Guns West
Overview: During the Civil War, five condemned Southern prisoners are plucked off Death Row and promised pardons on the condition that they undertake a mission to head west and bring back a double-crossing Confederate spy who has a stagecoach full of Confederate gold.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Fate Is the Hunter
Overview: A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Carnal Circuit
Overview: We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and it's now up to Paulo to figure out who the culprits are. The film is set in a drug-scented and "swinging" Los Angeles, where orgies and violence seem to be commonplace, and it soon appears that Paulo is on someone's hit list.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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At Gunpoint
Overview: A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Overview: A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Overview: Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Overview: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Security Risk
Overview: An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-08
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Tip on a Dead Jockey
Overview: Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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Quantez
Overview: A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-06
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South of St. Louis
Overview: With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-06
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Acting for Douglas Sirk
Overview: The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-05
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The Lone Gun
Overview: Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing another man. But when the jailer is murdered, Cruze gets evidence the Morans did it. He tries to raise a posse to chase them down but the townsmen refuse to go. So he rides off by himself to face the three of them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-25
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Sincerely Yours
Overview: He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-05
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Janie Gets Married
Overview: Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-22
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
Overview: A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-23
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Jack Slade
Overview: A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-08
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One Sunday Afternoon
Overview: The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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The Pigeon
Overview: A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-04
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Torpedo Alley
Overview: After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Commander Heywood for the affection of Navy nurse Lt Susan Peabody. Heywood gets a new sub command at the outbreak of the Korean war and Bingham is assigned to his sub.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Two Guys from Texas
Overview: Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-27
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Murder in Peyton Place
Overview: A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-03
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Little Ladies of the Night
Overview: The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, young runaway Hailey Atkins has been turned out. Down deep she wants to go straight but has had great difficulty escaping her pimp and doesn't even have a place to go. York and Garfield go out on a limb to try and help.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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The Man Who Would Not Die
Overview: A boat captain in the Caribbean becomes part of a bond theft/murder cover up.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Frontier Days
Overview: U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-08
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To the Victor
Overview: An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Seven Days Ashore
Overview: Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Abduction
Overview: The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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Too Young to Know
Overview: A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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Saddle Legion
Overview: A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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The Bushwhackers
Overview: Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, intending never again to use a gun. He finds that rancher Artemus Taylor and his henchmen are forcing out the settlers in order to claim their land for the incoming railroad.
Genres: Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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One Mysterious Night
Overview: After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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The November Plan
Overview: A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely based on The Business Plot of 1933.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Show Business
Overview: Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-10
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Peyton Place: The Next Generation
Overview: Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-13
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Hollywood Canteen
Overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Youth Runs Wild
Overview: The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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