Sam Chew Jr.
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: August 20, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Time Walker
Overview: From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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The Bastard
Overview: Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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Love and Bullets
Overview: Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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Scarab
Overview: Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Rattlers
Overview: A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Changes
Overview: It's the late sixties, a time of peace signs, free love and revolution; and Kent like others of his generation, is looking for a meaning to his life. Driving alone along the Big Sur, he flashes back to difficult memories about college, drugs, family and relationships. The flashback over, Kent is back in his car, but he loses control and crashes over an embankment. Stunned and hurt, Kent starts hitchhiking, not caring which direction. He wanders aimlessly, taking rides from strangers, never making real contact. Then he meets Julie who intrigues him and they move in together. Kent still has to find himself and the meaning of his existence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-11
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The Deadly Volley
Overview: Members of a professional tennis team are suspected in the attempted murder of the team's owner.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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Hyacinth
Overview: In a small town a young woman is murdered. The police assumes it's an accident, but friends of the murdered woman don't believe that. When they search for evidence, the police threatens them not to meddle in the investigation. When they are closing in on the truth, they find themselves in the dark world of slave trade and exotic animal smuggling.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-15
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This Is a Hijack
Overview: A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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Majority Rule
Overview: A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of power.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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10 to Midnight
Overview: Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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Earthquake
Overview: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Serial
Overview: A man resists the California fads that his wife, friends and wealthy Marin County neighbors embrace.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Overview: In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Oscar
Overview: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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40 Carats
Overview: After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Brave New World
Overview: A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-07
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Voyager from the Unknown
Overview: It is 1984. Jeffrey Jones is an 11-year-old orphan entrusted to his uncle and aunt. One evening, Phineas Bogg crashes through his bedroom window. As the young boy's dog rushes to the intruder, he bites into the book in Bogg's hand. In the ensuing panic, while trying to snatch the book from the fangs of the animal, Jeffrey swings out the window. Bogg jumps into the void to catch him and both are projected into time. Phineas Bogg is part of a group called the "Travellers". As they try to return Jeffrey to his own time, they encounter famous people from the past — while trying not to alter the path of history.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Overview: The story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's older brother Joseph, who undertakes a dangerous mission during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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F.I.S.T.
Overview: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
Overview: A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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