Peggie Castle
Also Known As: Peggy Thomas Blair
Biography: Peggie Castle (December 22, 1927 – August 11, 1973) was an American actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. Castle was Miss Cheesecake in 1949.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Appalachia, Virginia, USA
Birthday: December 22, 1927
Deathday: August 11, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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I, the Jury
Overview: After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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The Long Wait
Overview: Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-26
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Invasion, U.S.A.
Overview: A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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Finger Man
Overview: An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-15
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Beginning of the End
Overview: An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Payment on Demand
Overview: David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-03
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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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Seven Hills of Rome
Overview: After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-21
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The Oklahoma Woman
Overview: After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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The Counterfeit Plan
Overview: An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Miracle in the Rain
Overview: Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-31
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Overview: A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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I Was a Shoplifter
Overview: A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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Back from the Dead
Overview: A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The woman's sister, husband and the sister's new boyfriend struggle with accepting what has happened, who has caused it and how to correct it, which soon brings them into contact with a coven of devil-worshippers and forces of the supernatural.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-12
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Hell's Crossroads
Overview: An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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The Yellow Tomahawk
Overview: When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Target Zero
Overview: International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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Harem Girl
Overview: The palace secretary to a princess foils a sheik's plot to grab royal oil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-22
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Overland Pacific
Overview: A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-26
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Two-Gun Lady
Overview: A young woman teaches herself to become a sharpshooter so she can hunt down the three men who murdered her parents. She finds a sheriff who is willing to help her track them down.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-15
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Wagons West
Overview: Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-06
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Jesse James' Women
Overview: Jesse James leaves Missouri for Mississippi, and immediately charms all the women in Mississippi out of their bloomers and garters. His first conquest is the banker's daughter who helps him loot the bank in exchange for a promise of marriage; he wanders over to the saloon and runs the crooked partner of the proprietress out of town, takes all of his-and-her money and leaves her, between kisses, hounding him for her share; the third one, the saloon singer, actually makes a mark out of him as she cons him into a boxing match against a professional fighter and he loses the fight and his money, but he holds the singer and the fighter up as they leave town and gets his money back; and then he romances and swindles Cattle Kate, a replay of what he had done somewhere before to Kate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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The White Orchid
Overview: In the Southern Mexican jungle, an adventurous archaeologist is accompanied by an equally daring female photographer in a search for a lost Toltec city. They engage a guide to lead them on their expedition, and soon find themselves in the jungle's depths, far from civilization. Soon both the guide and the archaeologist are vying for the affection of the photographer. They must all deal with enormous danger and sacrifice before their quest is complete.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Cow Country
Overview: A hired hand gets caught between a noble rancher and ruthless land grabbers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-25
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Air Cadet
Overview: A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-14
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Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Shakedown
Overview: Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Woman in Hiding
Overview: As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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Outside the Wall
Overview: Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Overview: A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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The Golden Horde
Overview: The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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The Prince Who Was a Thief
Overview: An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-17
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Son of Belle Starr
Overview: The son of the notorious female bandit Belle Starr wants to live an honest life, but finds himself getting drawn into his mother's old profession.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-26
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Buccaneer's Girl
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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When a Girl's Beautiful
Overview: An advertising man has to come with "the perfect woman" for an ad campaign. He puts together a picture of a woman from a composite of several photos, to get an idea of the kind of woman he should look for. His boss sees it, thinks that it is an actual woman, and orders him to find her and use her in the campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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