Rockne Tarkington
Also Known As: William Rockne Tarkington Jr.
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Junction City, Kansas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 15, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 05, 2015
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The Ice Pirates
Overview: In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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Roughnecks
Overview: Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew of wildcatters arrives, including a stalwart drilling magnate, his tool-pusher and a young roughneck associate, who endeavor to save the ranching empire by trying to bring in a methane gas well.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-15
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Beware! The Blob
Overview: A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Death Before Dishonor
Overview: Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Zebra Force
Overview: In this post Vietnam War actioner, a group of veterans, former members of a crack guerrilla team, decide to reteam and use their specialized skills to fight organized crime.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-11
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Black Samson
Overview: Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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The No Mercy Man
Overview: A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion
Overview: When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market...
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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Major Dundee
Overview: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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Quell and Co.
Overview: A malevolent land mogul has threatened an honest group of Texas homesteaders, and when the innocent suffer justice must be served in director William Witney's action-packed, post-Civil War western. In a time when life was cheap and bullets were plentiful, Quell (Madison Mason) was a man to whom justice meant everything. A greedy land mogul whose mistreatment of the poor frontiersmen has raised the ire of Quell and his justice seeking band of followers, Kirk (Skip Homeler) thinks that he can bankroll respect and buy his way into power. That's not the way things work when in old Texas though, and when Kirk faces off against Quell and his crew, bullets are sure to fly.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-30
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Fists Of Steel
Overview: Today's street violence is the result of a permissive market for drugs. Affluent criminal societies paralyze! This is the story of one man who stands up...who believes he is responsible for the quality of the world he lives in. Internationally organized terrorists murder his father and pour into the country; Carlos burns with inner rage. Like many Americans, he perfected his commando skills in Asian jungles, but now the war has been brought home, and this family man hides his child, cleans his weapons, and takes care of business. Searching and destroying the psychopaths who brutally assault our society, this is a man that you can understand...a man you will cheer!!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Intruder Within
Overview: When drillers on an offshore oil rig dredge up several prehistoric eggs, one man is attacked by what appears to be an unidentified deep-sea creature protecting them. Soon, strange symptoms and behaviors become apparent among the crew and one of the creatures grows to adult-size.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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Black Starlet
Overview: Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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Melinda
Overview: A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-06
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Under the Gun
Overview: A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-25
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Handsome Harry's
Overview: American TV-Comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-23
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Charleston
Overview: Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-15
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The Desperate Trail
Overview: Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a few hours, all should reach their destinations. But the trail they travel takes an unexpected turn: Cooper and O'Rourke are soon off the stage and running for their lives. The law ends and the chase begins in a very alive tale of wanted-dead-or-alive fugitives (Linda Fiorentino and Craig Sheffer) pursued by a marshal (Sam Elliott) who's a law unto himself.
Genres: Western Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Overview: The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-04
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The Dream of Hamish Mose
Overview: A lost team of Buffalo Soldiers and their Captain in the aftermath of the Civil War trek through the Texas desert on an odyssey to retrieve a comrade they had thought to have been dead.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Uphill All the Way
Overview: Two unemployed good ol' boys are mistaken for a pair of notorious bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Great Gundown
Overview: Mario, weary of killing for pay, leaves his gang to return home to his wife and son who assumed him long dead. Now he is hunted by both sides of the law and shunned by his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-04
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Soldier in the Rain
Overview: Maxwell Slaughter is a kind, heavyset guy who has reached the rank of master sergeant in the army. Admired by handsome young Sgt. Eustis Clay, Slaughter forms a close bond with his peer. Clay hopes to convince Slaughter to join him in a business venture outside of the service, but, in the meantime, he introduces the older officer to the beautiful young Bobby Jo Pepperdine, inadvertently creating trouble for both men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-27
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Disaster on the Coastliner
Overview: A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-28
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The Baltimore Bullet
Overview: A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-01
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Wyatt Earp
Overview: From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.
Genres: Western Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-24
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Women of San Quentin
Overview: A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-23
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Overview: 1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-02
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Overview: A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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