Ruth Roman
Also Known As: Norma Roman
Biography: Ruth Roman (December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) was an American actress, principally appearing in dramas including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: December 22, 1922
Deathday: September 09, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Love Has Many Faces
Overview: A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-24
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The Window
Overview: An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Champion
Overview: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Storm Over Lisbon
Overview: A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-16
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Look in Any Window
Overview: A teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-29
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The Baby
Overview: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Beyond the Forest
Overview: Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-21
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Echoes
Overview: An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a "troubled soul" from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
Overview: A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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Impulse
Overview: A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-01
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Three Secrets
Overview: A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Down Three Dark Streets
Overview: An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Day of the Animals
Overview: The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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The Killing Kind
Overview: Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women turn up dead.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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The Far Country
Overview: During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Bitter Victory
Overview: During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Colt .45
Overview: Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-27
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Mara Maru
Overview: An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-23
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Blowing Wild
Overview: Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Great Day in the Morning
Overview: After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Joe Macbeth
Overview: A gangster's wife drives him to kill as she pushes him to the top.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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5 Steps to Danger
Overview: Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-05
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Always Leave Them Laughing
Overview: A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-26
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Rebel in Town
Overview: Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-30
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Go Ask Alice
Overview: A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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Dallas
Overview: After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an esteemed citizen, Hollister plots to expose the outlaw and his syndicate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-30
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The Bottom of the Bottle
Overview: An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Invitation
Overview: A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-29
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Young Man with Ideas
Overview: A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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Harmony Trail
Overview: Sent to investigate a payroll robbery, Marshall Rocky meets his old friends Ken, Eddie, and Max. He has the serial numbers and when Pop puts on his medicine show they get one of the bills. This enables Ken to see through Sorrell's scheme that threw the blame on an innocent rancher and he sets out to prove it. Written by Maurice Van Auken
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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Starlift
Overview: To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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The Shanghai Story
Overview: Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Jungle Queen
Overview: A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-13
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Tanganyika
Overview: A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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A Knife for the Ladies
Overview: A mutilating knife-killer haunts the small Southwest-desert town of Mescal. Though most victims have been prostitutes, the first was none other than Travis Mescal, the only son of the town's first family. When the Sheriff proves unable to solve the case, the town leaders invite Investigator Burns to unravel the mystery.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Barricade
Overview: Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-13
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A Night in Casablanca
Overview: The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-10
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Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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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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You Came Along
Overview: War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-04
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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General Electric Theater: Into the Night
Overview: A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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Desert Desperadoes
Overview: A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins to ponder the reward that would be paid by the King and orders The Woman to seduce a Roman guard to enable the messenger to get away. When the King's soldiers show up, Verrus refuses to surrender the refugees. Then the sand hits the fan.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Good Sam
Overview: Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Jungle Safari
Overview: Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Screen Director
Overview: A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-12
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The Big Clock
Overview: Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Incident in San Francisco
Overview: A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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The Affairs of Susan
Overview: Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-08
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Punch and Jody
Overview: When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-26
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Miracle to Cowards
Overview: The Passion of the Christ from the point of view of Ana and Ruben, two christians who try to free him with the help of a group of followers who have been saved by the Messiah. The struggle to reach an agreement is the first hard step. Between conspirators the selfishness is strong than faith: they want to help Jesus because they fear they had their diseases back after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-04
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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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