Chris Alcaide
Also Known As: John Thomas Berger
Biography: Chris Alcaide (October 22, 1923 – June 30, 2004) was an American film and TV actor renowned for his work in Westerns and crime-thrillers, where he often played intimidating sheriffs and henchmen due to his stature and voice.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 30, 2004
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Freedom
Overview: Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Vice Raid
Overview: A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Houston Story
Overview: A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Joy Ride
Overview: Teenage story of a bad apple in a barrel evolving from a kid's desire to drive a new T-bird.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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Bad for Each Other
Overview: A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-24
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The Miami Story
Overview: Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-03
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I Died a Thousand Times
Overview: After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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The Wild One
Overview: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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Smoky Canyon
Overview: Mahoney is a sheep man who's framed for the murder of a rancher. It's all part of a scheme by a dishonest cattleman who hopes to extenuate a range war for his own profit. The Durango Kid helps clear Mahoney's name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-31
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Duel on the Mississippi
Overview: In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André, to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Assassination
Overview: Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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Apache Ambush
Overview: Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-24
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Cripple Creek
Overview: It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret and Larry who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. But the crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men and the reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them putting their lives in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-30
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Day of the Badman
Overview: Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Kid Galahad
Overview: After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-29
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Backlash
Overview: Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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Chicago Syndicate
Overview: An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Gunslinger
Overview: After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Overland Pacific
Overview: A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported Indian attacks against the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-26
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Massacre Canyon
Overview: A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Hammett
Overview: Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-09
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Rock All Night
Overview: Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Carnival Rock
Overview: An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Miami Exposé
Overview: A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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