George D. Wallace
Also Known As: Geo. Wallace , George P. Wallace , George Wallace, George Dewey Wallace
Biography: George Dewey Wallace (June 8, 1917 – July 22, 2005) was an American stage and screen actor. Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical Jennie and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in New Girl in Town opposite Gwen Verdon. He is also remembered for playing Commando Cody in the movie serial Radar Men from the Moon.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 08, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 22, 2005
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Deadman's Curve
Overview: Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Kansas City Confidential
Overview: An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-11
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Schemes
Overview: In this intricate tale of deception, extortion, and murder, a successful architect learns that although beautiful strangers may be dangerous, it is friends who are deadly. Devastated by his wife's death, Paul begins to emerge from depression when he meets a new woman, Laura. But his newfound happiness is destroyed when his best friend, Evelyn, learns that Laura is a con-artist. Regretting her treachery and trying to redeem herself, Laura discovers Evelyn's violent obsession with Paul. Fighting blackmail and threats by Evelyn and a ruthless former lover, Laura courageously reveals the explosive news that Paul's wife was really murdered. -
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-07
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Skin Game
Overview: Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-30
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Strange Lady in Town
Overview: Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Protocol
Overview: A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Diggstown
Overview: Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Man in the Saddle
Overview: A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-02
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Overview: Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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We're Not Married!
Overview: A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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The Homesteaders
Overview: Homesteaders Mace Corbin and Clyde Moss pick up much needed dynamite and begin a journey to transport it from an army fort to their homes, hiring a crew of ex-soldiers just released from the army prison. Mace knows he's got his work cut out for him with unstable dynamite, undisciplined hired hands and possible hostile Indians but he doesn't have the slightest hint that his trusted friend Clyde has betrayed him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-22
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Flight to the Future ...to the World of Plastics
Overview: Marge, a young flight attendant, is offered the chance to work a chartered flight her boyfriend Bill is piloting. On the trip are four members of a company engaged in the manufacturing of various plastics - Messrs. Arnold, Duncan, Harmon, and Casey. Mr. Arnold engages Marge in conversation about many of the ways plastics are used in modern life. Then Mr. Duncan tells her about more uses of plastics. Then Mr. Casey tells her about further uses of plastics. Then Mr. Harmon tells Marge about additional uses of plastics.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-02
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Texas Across the River
Overview: The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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My Girl 2
Overview: Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Sally and Saint Anne
Overview: An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Almost Dead
Overview: A woman psychologist, who specialises in research about twins, is haunted by her dead mothers ghost.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-20
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Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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Forces of Nature
Overview: Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Multiplicity
Overview: Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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Child of Rage
Overview: A priest and his wife adopt a brother and sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. They get her in treatment and try to find out the reason for this.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-24
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Nurse Betty
Overview: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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Bicentennial Man
Overview: Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Deal of a Lifetime
Overview: The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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Minority Report
Overview: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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Working Tra$h
Overview: Ralph and Freddy work as janitors at a brokerage firm and become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-26
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Native Son
Overview: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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In Search of America
Overview: Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-23
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The Stunt Man
Overview: A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-27
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Japanese War Bride
Overview: A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-29
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The Human Jungle
Overview: Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-03
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The Haunted
Overview: When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out it's haunted.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-06
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Lifeguard
Overview: Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-23
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Defending Your Life
Overview: Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-22
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Forbidden Planet
Overview: Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Radar Men from the Moon
Overview: Commando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a flying suit and a rocket to the Moon. When the nation's defences are being sabotaged and destroyed, Cody learns that an atomic-gun is being used and that the men on the moon are the culprits.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-09
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Punchline
Overview: Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to help the untried Lilah develop her stage act. Despite the objections of her family and some very wobbly beginnings, Lilah improves, and soon she finds herself competing with Steven for a coveted television spot.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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Six Black Horses
Overview: A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-24
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The Swinging Cheerleaders
Overview: In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Star of Texas
Overview: Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-11
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Arena
Overview: Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-24
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Vigilante Terror
Overview: Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under hood, as it were
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Border River
Overview: A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-06
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Man Without a Star
Overview: A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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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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Destry
Overview: Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Return to Earth
Overview: The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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Submarine Command
Overview: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Ghost Buster
Overview: Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he hears of the disappearance of a town millionaire's nephew, he sets out, disguised as a nurse, for the millionaire's mansion to solve the case
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Pardon My Wrench
Overview: Gil Lamb finds his chief competitor helping his girl friend's father with some household work. When George tells Andy he can not install the garbage disposal, the daughter, in order to help Gil make an impression on Andy, urges Gil to do the job. The impression made, due to Gil's efforts, is not the impression expected.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-13
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The French Line
Overview: Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Colorado C.I.
Overview: Mark and Pete Gunnison, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Colorado State Police, seek to crack a multi-million dollar real estate swindle.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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People Like Us
Overview: When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-13
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The Final Days
Overview: The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Drums Across the River
Overview: When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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The Six Million Dollar Man
Overview: Colonel Steve Austin, astronaut and test pilot, is badly injured when he crashes while testing an experimental aircraft. A covert government agency (OSI) is willing to pay for special prosthetics to replace the eye, arm and both legs he lost in the crash. Highly advanced technology (bionics) built into them will make him faster, stronger and more resilient than normal. In return they want him to become a covert agent for the OSI. It will cost $6,000,000 to rebuild Steve Austin.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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The Boys
Overview: When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he tries to put his affairs in order by teaching writing to prison inmates, talking to his son and ex-wife, and getting his partner to quit smoking.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-15
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Overview: There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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