Argentina Brunetti
Also Known As: Argentina Josefina Ángela Ferraù de Brunetti
Biography: Argentina Brunetti (born Argentina Josefina Ángela Ferraù August 31, 1907 – December 20, 2005) was an Argentinian stage and film actress and writer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
Birthday: August 31, 1907
Deathday: December 20, 2005
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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The Brothers Rico
Overview: Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Overview: An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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Rose of Cimarron
Overview: A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-28
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High Tide
Overview: A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-13
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The Caddy
Overview: Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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The Money Trap
Overview: When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-07
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The Lawless
Overview: A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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King of the Khyber Rifles
Overview: Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Make Haste to Live
Overview: A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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The Rains of Ranchipur
Overview: India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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The Midnight Story
Overview: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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A Bell for Adano
Overview: A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general. Placing his career in jeopardy, the governor decides to replace the town's bell, which had been looted by the Fascists.
Genres: TV Movie War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-11
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Jet Over The Atlantic
Overview: Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Ghost Chasers
Overview: A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Genres: Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-29
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The Horizontal Lieutenant
Overview: A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Apache War Smoke
Overview: An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just pulled into the station, as has the stationmaster's father, a former bandit named Peso, and they all find themselves besieged by the Apaches, who want them to turn over the killer to them or they'll take the station and kill everybody. The problem is that the people in the station aren't sure just who among therm is the actual killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Woman in the Dark
Overview: A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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The Young Landlords
Overview: Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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Tropic Zone
Overview: A fugitive from the police helps a beautiful farmer run her struggling banana plantation.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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When in Rome
Overview: An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-11
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Flight to Holocaust
Overview: A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-26
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Hell's Island
Overview: Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Stage to Thunder Rock
Overview: An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The Fighter
Overview: A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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The Story of Three Loves
Overview: Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Sirocco
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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The Unholy Wife
Overview: A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they accidentally kill the wrong person.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-24
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San Antone
Overview: After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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The George Raft Story
Overview: The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Showdown at Boot Hill
Overview: Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement identifying him. But the man was well liked in town and no one will sign such a statement. When he outdraws another man who thought he was faster, some townsmen decide he should be killed and they organize a mob to go after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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El Paso
Overview: Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-22
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Lookin' Italian
Overview: After an unfortunate incident causes him to leave the "family business" and move to Los Angeles, Vinny Pallazzo is living a quiet life. When his nephew, Anthony, moves in with him, Vinny slowly learns to live life to the fullest again. However, Anthony is young, and is living life in the fast lane. He brings out the demons from Vinny's past. Now Vinny must try to stop Anthony from making the same mistakes that changed his life forever.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Evita Peron
Overview: Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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The Last Command
Overview: During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
Genres: History Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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California
Overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-21
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The Blonde Bandit
Overview: A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Three Violent People
Overview: A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Duel at Apache Wells
Overview: A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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Shockproof
Overview: Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
Genres: Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-25
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Bal Tabarin
Overview: Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-31
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Anything Goes
Overview: Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
Overview: Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-10
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Black Market Baby
Overview: A young college girl becomes pregnant, and she and the baby's father are targeted by a black-market adoption ring that is out to get the baby.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-18
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The Iron Mistress
Overview: In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
Genres: History Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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Force of Arms
Overview: During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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The Tall Men
Overview: Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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My Cousin Rachel
Overview: A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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House of Strangers
Overview: Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Dial 1119
Overview: A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Not One Shall Die
Overview: A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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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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Broken Arrow
Overview: Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Man-Eater of Kumaon
Overview: A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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The Red Danube
Overview: A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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The 4th Tenor
Overview: A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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