Jimmy Lydon
Also Known As: James Lydon, James Joseph Lydon
Biography: James J. Lydon (born May 30, 1923) is an American actor and television producer whose career in the entertainment industry began as a teenager during the 1930s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harrington Park, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: May 30, 1923
Deathday: March 09, 2022
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bonnie's Kids
Overview: After killing their repulsive stepfather, emboldened sisters Myra and Ellie set out to become career criminals. While enjoying the freedom of being bad, the new lawbreakers stumble into a stash of mob money, which they’ll stop at nothing to keep.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-08
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Vigilante Force
Overview: In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their community. One resident, Ben Arnold, enlists his brother Aaron, a Vietnam veteran, to assemble a group of men to restore law and order to the town. Though Aaron's crew succeeds, the newfound power goes to some of their heads, and Aaron and Ben must again reclaim the town for the citizens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-09
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Island in the Sky
Overview: A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Life with Father
Overview: A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-13
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Strange Illusion
Overview: An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-31
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Out of the Storm
Overview: Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-11
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The Hypnotic Eye
Overview: A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-17
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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Tom Brown's School Days
Overview: When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-26
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Back Door to Heaven
Overview: The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Chain of Evidence
Overview: A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-06
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Death of a Gunfighter
Overview: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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September Affair
Overview: An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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Hot Rod
Overview: A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-22
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Sweet Genevieve
Overview: The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship...until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers (Jean Porter) suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal's secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy (Jimmy Lydon) invents a new fuel amidst rumors that - horrors - the basketball game might be fixed. River City is not the only town that has trouble starting with a "T" and there's not a pool hall in sight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-23
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Tarnished
Overview: Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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Henry Aldrich, Editor
Overview: Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named Nero Smith shows up to tip off Henry as to the time and place of the next conflagration. Henry prints the story-and is immediately accused of being the firebug himself!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Destination Big House
Overview: A teacher (Dorothy Patrick) weekends at her fiance's (Robert Rockwell) cabin, where a fugitive hides his loot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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When the Lights Go On Again
Overview: The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-22
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Cynthia
Overview: Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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The Road to Victory
Overview: Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place. Edited down from The Shining Future (1944).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
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Bowery Boy
Overview: Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
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Gasoline Alley
Overview: A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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The Town Went Wild
Overview: Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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I Passed for White
Overview: A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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The Shining Future
Overview: Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-11
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Bad Boy
Overview: A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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The Time of Your Life
Overview: Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Twice Blessed
Overview: Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-31
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Corky of Gasoline Alley
Overview: A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Good News
Overview: At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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Oh! Susanna
Overview: Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Overview: When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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The Last Time I Saw Archie
Overview: Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-27
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Cannon
Overview: In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Two Thoroughbreds
Overview: A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The sixth entry in the "Henry Aldrich" series of eleven films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-30
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Henry Aldrich for President
Overview: Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Henry Aldrich Swings It
Overview: Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-23
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Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
Overview: Henry Aldrich and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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Henry and Dizzy
Overview: After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-05
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Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Overview: Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-13
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Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Overview: High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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A Letter From Bataan
Overview: An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-15
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Little Men
Overview: Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Overview: "An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-30
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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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Scandalous John
Overview: A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-22
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My Best Gal
Overview: A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-28
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Affairs of Geraldine
Overview: When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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The World of Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" (1939).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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The Desperado
Overview: "Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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Tucson
Overview: The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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Aerial Gunner
Overview: Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Battle Stations
Overview: The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Home Early
Overview: A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
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Rage at Dawn
Overview: In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves the outlaw brothers as a housekeeper and cook. One brother is killed when they go after a bank, the men of the town appear to have been waiting for them…
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-26
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The Mad Martindales
Overview: A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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Miss Mink of 1949
Overview: Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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Naval Academy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-05
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Cadets on Parade
Overview: A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended by a newsboy and they tutor each other, but soon get embroiled in a ransom scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-22
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The Magnificent Yankee
Overview: Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
Overview: A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-19
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The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove
Overview: Three kids think they see a sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove, and set out to find what's behind the mystery.
Genres: Family Adventure Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Time to Kill
Overview: A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather play cards. But each of them has a dream for the future that they consider impossible. Harry wants a better world for his two kids, Shorty and Eddie want to start a trucking company, Joe wants to learn about engines, and another of the gang just wants to know how to write well. When Frank reveals that he's been studying to get his high school diploma and to have a career in the Navy, the others realize that the educational benefits offered by the Armed Forces Institute can help them achieve their dreams.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-13
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Michael O'Hara the Fourth
Overview: The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O'Haras and all have been exemplary policemen. When Michael O'Hara III's child was born he was told that they would not be able to have any more children, and there has always been a Michael O'Hara, so he named his child Michael O'Hara IV despite the fact that she is a girl. Now Mike has a tendency to get involved with police matters and not always with good results, which annoys her father. And despite being told repeatedly to stay out of it, she continues her amateurish detective activities.
Genres: Crime Comedy Family Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Overview: Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Overview: A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-05
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