Albert Salmi
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Albert Salmi (March 11, 1928 – April 22, 1990) was an American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Salmi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 22, 1990
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Dragonslayer
Overview: A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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The Unforgiven
Overview: The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-06
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Steel
Overview: Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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Hour of the Gun
Overview: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Empire of the Ants
Overview: A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-29
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St. Helens
Overview: Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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The Ambushers
Overview: When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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The Bravados
Overview: Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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Love and Bullets
Overview: Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-05
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Superstition
Overview: A witch put to death in 1692 swears vengeance on her persecutors and returns to the present day to punish their descendants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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Wild River
Overview: A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Love Child
Overview: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Viva Knievel!
Overview: The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-10
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The Outrage
Overview: At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes. Disconcerting new questions arise with each different version of the event.
Genres: Drama Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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The Little Woman
Overview: A little girl hides a criminal in her playhouse.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-30
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Born American
Overview: A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-14
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Moonshine County Express
Overview: The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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The Meanest Men in the West
Overview: Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-04
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Black Oak Conspiracy
Overview: An average Joe is pitted against a crooked sheriff and unscrupulous land grabbers in this tale of small town corruption and revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-20
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The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Overview: After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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Cloud Dancer
Overview: An aerobatic pilot comes to terms with his work, his photographer ex-lover and a brash newcomer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-29
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The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway
Overview: Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain a celebrity of sorts, by the whole country, which wants to partake of their largesse in their coast-to-coast spending spree.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-21
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Jesse
Overview: Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-04
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Burned at the Stake
Overview: In 1692 Salem, Ann Putnam accuses those who have angered her of witchcraft; they are tried and put to death. In 1980, Loreen Graham is on a school outing to the Salem Witch Museum when a wax figure of a man from 1692 comes to life and accosts her. It seems that she may be the reincarnation of Ann, who had accused the man's 5-year-old daughter of witchcraft and the girl is scheduled to be burned at the stake. Loreen must fight against Ann's possession and confront the corrupt 17th century minister consorting with Ann to falsely accuse people of witchcraft.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Andersonville Trial
Overview: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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The Flim-Flam Man
Overview: Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Double-Dealing,” has made a career out of charming and cheating his way through life. Played with devilish charm by George C. Scott, Jones takes on a new protégé in Curley, a wide-eyed Army deserter eager for direction. Together, they crisscross the backroads of the rural South, pulling off a string of homespun cons while staying one step ahead of a relentless local sheriff. Along the way, Curley falls for Bonnie Lee Packard, a rebellious heiress who joins their misadventures. But as the scams grow riskier, Curley begins to wonder whether a life of flimflam is worth the price. With its colorful characters, offbeat humor, and standout performance by Scott, The Flim-Flam Man is a rollicking Southern caper about cons, conscience, and unlikely camaraderie.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-22
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Kung Fu - A Legend Reborn
Overview: Father and son are reunited after 15 years. A old rival from the Shaolin Temple has taken over Chinatown and intends to assassinate the mayor. Peter and Caine must work together to stop him.
Genres: Crime Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
Overview: The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-22
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The Take
Overview: A policeman in New Mexico takes payoff money but still manages to go after a racketeer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Something Big
Overview: Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wants for the gun? A woman! So Baker kidnaps a woman off of the stagecoach, only to find that she is the wife of the commandant of the local Cavalry detachment. Things get further complicated when a girl named Dover McBride shows up. She has come to force Baker to marry her and return east, as he promised to do four years earlier
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Undercover with the KKK
Overview: The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testified as a key prosecution witness during the trial of several Klansmen for crimes of destruction and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-23
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Moving Target
Overview: A police detective initially believed to have died in an accident is found to have been murdered, and suspicion arises the killer is a fellow officer.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-22
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Overview: After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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A Place Without Parents
Overview: When families drift apart and kids are frustrated and bored, and everybody feels like they'd like to strike out at something.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Caddyshack
Overview: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-25
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I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Overview: An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-05
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The Man Hunter
Overview: A professional hunter is brought in to track a bank robbery suspect through a Louisiana swamp, and winds up getting romantically involved with the suspect's wife.
Genres: Drama Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-20
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Overview: A pitcher of a major-league baseball team finds out that his teammate and pal is desperately trying to hide that he is dying of a terminal disease so the owner won't find out and fire him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-26
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The Deserter
Overview: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Menace on the Mountain
Overview: A period piece about the McIver family trying to protect there home from Civil War deserters. Actor Jodie Foster, then approximately 8, plays Suellen McIver. Actor Mitch Vogel, Jamie, is their protector.
Genres: War Family History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-01
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Three Guns for Texas
Overview: A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-31
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Hard to Hold
Overview: Jamie Roberts is a rock star living the highlife when he falls for an intellectual child psychologist who only has ears for classical music. Opposites attract, but his jealous ex-girlfriend isn't ready to give up so easily.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-28
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Best Kept Secrets
Overview: Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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The Legend of Earl Durand
Overview: The Legend Of Earl Durand was the story of a young child whose family lived near DuBois, Wyoming and made Earl live in a hut in the wild because they thought he had a contagious disease. When the local Aboriginal people discovered his plight, they took him under their wing so he grew up as a sort of wild man, completely able to live off the land. He was known as the "Robin Hood" of the West because he hunted game on Federal land which was very illegal and gave the meat to the poor.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Breaking In
Overview: Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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Female Artillery
Overview: An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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The Guns and the Fury
Overview: Two turn of the Century fortune hunters (Peter Graves and Cameron Mitchell) discover oil in Persia and attempt to claim it. Serious resistance is met.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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The Sweet Creek County War
Overview: In this western, a sheriff gets tired of upholding the law and retires to a quiet ranch. Unfortunately, he ends up saving his homesteader neighbors from a corrupt Wyoming land grabber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-25
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Night Games
Overview: A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of murdering her husband. This is the pilot TV movie for what would become the Petrocelli TV series.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-16
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Brubaker
Overview: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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Four Rode Out
Overview: In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
Overview: A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-12
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