Peter Leeds
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: May 30, 1917
Deathday: November 12, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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High School Big Shot
Overview: Unpopular at school because of his high I.Q., neglected by his weak and alcoholic father, Marvin is easy prey for the campus vamb, Betty, who pretends an interest in Marv only so that he will write her term paper. When the two are discovered cheating by their professor, the longed-for scholarship recommendation is withdrawn. Meanwhile the jealousy of Betty's boy friend has been aroused and when Marv learns that he can only hold the girl's affections by offering her riches, he plans a million dollar robbery. Even the professional gangsters with whom he works are amazed at the brilliance of the young genius. Again, however, he is double crossed by Betty who has warned her friend and his gang of the plan. When the police also learn of the activities the project as well as the lives of a number of the boys ends in tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Senior Trip
Overview: A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical "Sugar Babies."
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-30
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The Scarface Mob
Overview: Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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The Frogmen
Overview: The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over the death of their former commander and resentful of the new one.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
Overview: Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Love Me or Leave Me
Overview: A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-26
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The Lady Gambles
Overview: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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99 River Street
Overview: A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-21
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Interrupted Melody
Overview: Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-05
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Overview: When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Overview: Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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The Facts of Life
Overview: Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-14
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The Wheeler Dealers
Overview: Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-14
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The Oscar
Overview: An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
Overview: Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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Tight Spot
Overview: A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-19
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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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D.O.A.
Overview: Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Girls Town
Overview: Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-05
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The Rookie
Overview: A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the only new recruit at basic training camp. Military comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Behind the High Wall
Overview: A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Saddle Tramp
Overview: Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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Blitzkrieg Bop!
Overview: Live punk rock and new wave from CBGB’s at 315 Bowery, NYC, a music club that opened Dec 10, 1973
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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That Brennan Girl
Overview: Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Life with Buster Keaton
Overview: Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
Overview: The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-10
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The Atomic Kid
Overview: A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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It's Always Fair Weather
Overview: Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-30
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Overview: Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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Katie Did It
Overview: Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Peter Van Arden. The romance blossoms until Katie falls victim of some false information, and becomes convinced that Peter is already married and the father of two children.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-26
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Overview: A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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Kiss Them for Me
Overview: Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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Bombers B-52
Overview: Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Pacific Blackout
Overview: Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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Dragnet
Overview: LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-23
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Crash Dive
Overview: A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Genres: War Romance Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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Tea and Sympathy
Overview: A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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Eight on the Lam
Overview: Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-26
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Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Overview: In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a delivery boy who invents a machine which turns his girlfriend into a giantess.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Harlow
Overview: Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Man on a Bus
Overview: Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Bobby Ware Is Missing
Overview: This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child undertake a feverish search for their son. The police are contacted, and a ransom letter is received.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-23
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