Farley Granger
Also Known As: Farley Earle Granger II
Biography: Farley Earle Granger Jr. (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: Rope in 1948 and Strangers on a Train in 1951.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 01, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 27, 2011
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Rope
Overview: Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-11
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Strangers on a Train
Overview: Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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Death Will Have Your Eyes
Overview: A young woman who comes to Rome and soon drifts into de facto prostitution in order to survive. She meets a misanthropic doctor and would-be poet, but soon falls in love with another man. Murder ensues and she soon finds herself being blackmailed, sexually and financially, by her husband's shady driver, who saw something he shouldn't have.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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Enchantment
Overview: Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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They Call Me Trinity
Overview: The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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The Red Headed Corpse
Overview: An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-10
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Edge of Doom
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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The Purple Heart
Overview: This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-25
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Senso
Overview: A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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They Live by Night
Overview: An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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The Prowler
Overview: Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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Hans Christian Andersen
Overview: A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
Genres: Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-19
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Side Street
Overview: A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
Overview: Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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Deathmask
Overview: Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the detriment of his family life.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Our Very Own
Overview: During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-27
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The Naked Street
Overview: To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Something Creeping in the Dark
Overview: A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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So Sweet, So Dead
Overview: A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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Small Town Girl
Overview: Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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The Story of Three Loves
Overview: Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Arnold
Overview: Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Laura
Overview: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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The Man Called Noon
Overview: Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Rogue's Gallery
Overview: A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Behave Yourself!
Overview: A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-22
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Roseanna McCoy
Overview: It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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I Want You
Overview: The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-22
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Rope Unleashed
Overview: A short documentary about the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'. Interviews with screenwriter Arthur Laurents delve into the troubles of secretly making a movie about gay murderers in the 1940s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-06
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The Imagemaker
Overview: Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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Pain Killer
Overview: A man suffers from both back pain and his nagging wife. Doctor finds nothing physically wrong, concludes that the problem is caused by latent anger toward wife, & suggests uxoricide to kill all the pain.
Genres: Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-14
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Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
Overview: A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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The Haunting of Penthouse D
Overview: A troubled young woman agrees to spend two weeks at a friend's Manhattan penthouse while the friend is away on a modeling assignment, but a series of mysterious disturbances begin occurring during the night.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-15
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The North Star
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-04
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Widow
Overview: A woman is left on her own to raise her two children after the unexpected death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-22
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Planet Venus
Overview: Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-27
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Amore mio, uccidimi!
Overview: Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and will use all the power of his money to prevent his wife Laureen and Guido from being happy together. And, first things first, he will keep them from leaving Manila where they are now for Bangkok as they are planning.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-20
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The Challengers
Overview: Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-20
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The Whoopee Boys
Overview: Two obnoxious and dim-witted misfits attempt to save a school for needy children by attempting to sneak into the wealthy high society of Palm Beach to get the money needed for their cause.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Maharlika
Overview: The (alleged) heroic World War Two adventures of Ferdinand Marcos, fighting against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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The Celluloid Closet
Overview: What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-30
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Armored Attack!
Overview: A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive references to Soviet Union and include narration about the Hungarian Uprising of 1956.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Very Close Quarters
Overview: Depicts a communal flat in Russia where the Government randomly assigns 20 people to live in a one-bedroom apartment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Overview: An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Amuck!
Overview: A beautiful American woman infiltrates the home of a novelist and his wife so she can investigate the disappearance of her lover — who was her employers’ previous secretary — and soon finds herself the target of the couple's erotic desires and a murder plot.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-21
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Rescued from the Closet
Overview: A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-29
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The Next Big Thing
Overview: A painter who finds success (and true love) after a pickpocket steals one of his works, gives it a false authorship and promotes the imaginary artist to instant success so he can cash in on his ill-gotten gains.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-08
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Overview: Documentary the career of Alfred Hitchcock with Tippi Hedren bringing up allegations against the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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