Joseph Forte
Also Known As: Josef Forte, Joe Forte
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: June 14, 1891
Deathday: March 11, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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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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Tell Your Children
Overview: High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Accidental Accidents
Overview: Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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The Judge
Overview: A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-31
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Mister Cory
Overview: An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-23
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Homicidal
Overview: A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-26
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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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Magnificent Doll
Overview: While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-08
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King of the Texas Rangers
Overview: Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
Genres: Action Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Roustabout
Overview: After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Sweet Smell of Success
Overview: New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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Utah
Overview: A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heiress (Dale Evans) not to sell the property.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-21
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Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Roadblock
Overview: An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Bigger and Better
Overview: On the train trip home from school, all the kids except Dave talk about taking a vacation trip to Lake Arrowhead; Dave wants a summer job. Alabam suggests that his uncle might hire Dave at a department store. The uncle likes Dave's attitude and tells Alabam and Mickey they should work there too. Reluctantly, Alabam takes a sales assignment in ladies' accessories, where he's charming but clueless. Mickey, lazy and on the take, sees the store detective helping himself to a chocolate bar, so he wants that job. Dave learns the hard way that the customer is always right, Mickey puts the cuffs on the wrong customer, and Lake Arrowhead looks very far away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Overview: Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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A Ten-Minute Egg
Overview: The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a business card identifying him as the bouncer of the "Bucket of Blood Cafe."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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Pals of the Saddle
Overview: The first of eight "Three Mesquiteers" Westerns to star John Wayne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-28
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The Crimson Ghost
Overview: A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the planet.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Dark Command
Overview: When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-15
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The Case Against Brooklyn
Overview: A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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A Panic in the Parlor
Overview: Leon goes partying in Tiajuana with a friend,and his wife gets wise and makes plans to each him a lesson. She pretends to have a couple of lovers, including a large Cossack knife-handler. Leon, in order to trap her, disguises himself only to mess up things all around, plus getting fired by his boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Rodeo King and the Senorita
Overview: Lacey is after the profits of the Foster and Morales rodeo show. He has Morales killed during a stunt and then forces Foster to take him on as a silent partner. When Rex Allen joins the show, Lacey tries to get rid of him also. But Rex survives and now believes Morales' accident may have been murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-15
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Fury at Gunsight Pass
Overview: An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-15
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Overview: Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-07
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Jerry's Diary
Overview: The kiddie radio host, Uncle Dudley, reminds his listeners that it is "Be Kind to Animals" week. Tom resolves to be kind to his mouse-nemesis, Jerry, but the cat changes his mind after sneaking a look at Jerry's diary.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-22
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The Secret Fury
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Law of the Lawless
Overview: A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Kilroy Was Here
Overview: "Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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The Jayhawkers!
Overview: Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Assignment: Paris
Overview: Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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