Mickey Simpson
Also Known As: Charles Henry Simpson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Birthday: December 03, 1913
Deathday: September 23, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Giant
Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-08
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It Happens Every Spring
Overview: A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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The Golden Blade
Overview: Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Overview: Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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The Great Bank Robbery
Overview: A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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Wagon Master
Overview: Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-22
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The Long Gray Line
Overview: The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Overview: The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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The Street with No Name
Overview: After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-14
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Road to the Big House
Overview: A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-13
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Tarzan and the Huntress
Overview: A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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Undersea Girl
Overview: A woman reporter, a navy investigator, and a heavyset police detective come across a gang which scuttled a ship in order to loot her later, underwater, for a Navy money consignment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-12
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Gents in a Jam
Overview: Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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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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I Died a Thousand Times
Overview: After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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The Lone Ranger
Overview: The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore wants to mine silver on Spirit Mountain which is sacred to the Indians.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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A Lion Is in the Streets
Overview: A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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Man in the Dark
Overview: Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Kentucky Jubilee
Overview: A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Rose Marie
Overview: Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-03
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Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-02
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Overview: When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-17
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Overview: On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-22
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The Judge Steps Out
Overview: A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Fort Apache
Overview: Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-14
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My Darling Clementine
Overview: Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Saginaw Trail
Overview: Hamilton's Rangers, led by our hero Gene, must keep the Indians in the northern Michigan territory from attacking the settlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-20
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Sea Raiders
Overview: A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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No Time for Love
Overview: An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Wake of the Red Witch
Overview: Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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Angel in Exile
Overview: An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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Honolulu Lu
Overview: While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-11
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Roar of the Iron Horse
Overview: Columbia Pictures elevated stunt man Jock O'Mahoney to stardom in this 15 chapter western serial about the building of the transcontinental railroad. O'Mahoney played a railroad agent who uncovers the master criminal behind a series of sabotage attempts on the construction site.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Surrender
Overview: Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Leadville Gunslinger
Overview: Arriving in Leadville, Marshal Rocky Lane finds that his friend Nugget is in financial trouble. Nugget thinks there is oil on his land but the geologist says no. Suspecting a conspiracy, Rocky poses as a crook himself to infiltrate the gang, nab the ringleader and make sure justice takes the day. Harry Keller directs this B Western.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-22
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The Spoilers
Overview: When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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Star of Texas
Overview: Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-11
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He Rides Tall
Overview: A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Overview: Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Overview: John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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A Date with the Falcon
Overview: In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making synthetic diamonds. He deliberately allows himself to be kidnapped by the gang for which Rita works. His aide, "Goldy" Locke, trails the kidnappers and brings the police. But the head of the gang escapes, and the Falcon continues the pursuit.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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A Woman's Secret
Overview: A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-13
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Panama Lady
Overview: A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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King Rat
Overview: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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Half Past Midnight
Overview: A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Overview: Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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World Without End
Overview: Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
Genres: Adventure Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-25
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In the Navy
Overview: Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Keep 'Em Flying
Overview: When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Overview: Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Argyle Secrets
Overview: A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Overview: Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-29
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The Falcon Takes Over
Overview: While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Song of Scheherazade
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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