Norman Fell
Also Known As: Norman Feld
Biography: Norman Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924. He graduated from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in drama. During World War II, he was an Air Force tail gunner in the Pacific. After the war, he studied acting and obtained small parts in television and on stage. His first regular TV appearance was in the comedy series "Joe & Mabel" (1956). His best known TV role was that of Stanley Roper, the landlord in the very popular "Three's Company" (1976), which debuted in 1977, and its short lived spin-off, "The Ropers" (1979). Norman Fell died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills CA, aged 74, survived by two daughters
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 24, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 14, 1998
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Ocean's Eleven
Overview: Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Bullitt
Overview: Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-17
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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Overview: When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-11
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Rabbit Test
Overview: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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The Heist
Overview: An armored-car guard must convince the authorities he is innocent after he is forced to rob his own company.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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The Killers
Overview: A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
Overview: Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (1980) A police detective investigates two messy murder cases involving lovers' triangles and jealous spouses
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-31
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The Stone Killer
Overview: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-08
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Charley Varrick
Overview: Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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Stripped to Kill
Overview: A Los Angeles policewoman's partner has her pose as a stripper to lure a killer of strippers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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PT 109
Overview: Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-26
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Airport 1975
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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The End
Overview: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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The Boatniks
Overview: Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the way he expresses his deep sympathy for the lady leaves to be desired. And the situation does not improve when a trio of bumbling jewel thieves interferes.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Overview: A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Pork Chop Hill
Overview: Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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The Graduate
Overview: A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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On the Right Track
Overview: Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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You're Driving Me Crazy
Overview: Set within a mental ward, doctors try to cope with people suffering from a variety of ailments. Among the afflicted are a young man who believes his parents are really from outer space, a murderous television producer, and a prominent fashion photographer obsessed with a motivational record.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-27
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C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Overview: A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Paternity
Overview: Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming into contact with several children, Buddy decides that he is ready to be a father. Buddy decides to hire a surrogate mother in the hope of having a son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-02
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The Boneyard
Overview: Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-12
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The Hanged Man
Overview: A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-18
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The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
Overview: Two long-time rival high school football coaches lead their respective teams into battle for the city football championship. However, before the opening kickoff, various students from each school try to do whatever it takes to throw the opposing team off of their game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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The Rat Race
Overview: An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-10
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Thursday's Game
Overview: Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday nights.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-14
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The Naked Truth
Overview: Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-29
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Magic with the Stars
Overview: Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-17
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Death Stalk
Overview: The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-21
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Three's a Crowd
Overview: An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-02
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The Young Runaways
Overview: Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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For the Love of It
Overview: An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Ghostbreakers
Overview: A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted house.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-08
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The Jesse Owens Story
Overview: The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Fitzwilly
Overview: When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Overview: Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Uncommon Valor
Overview: The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-22
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Inherit the Wind
Overview: Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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The Violators
Overview: A New York City probation officer, noted for his sympathy with delinquents, put to a severe test when his daughter falls for a boy whom circumstances force into breaking the law.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-30
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With Friends Like These...
Overview: Three short stories about three extraordinary friendships gone wrong; An antique car comes into the life of the young couple of Alex and Kathleen. The young bachelor Frank finds a new friend within his refridgerator. While hard working Susan seeks a dating agency to find her perfect match. - Written by I. B. Fenstad
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-27
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Twelve Angry Men
Overview: Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
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Catch-22
Overview: A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-24
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Hexed
Overview: Lowly hotel clerk Matthew Welch stumbles unto a chance to go on a date with supermodel Hexina by pretending he is someone else. But something goes wrong on the date, she tries to kill him! Soon she kills a couple more people, and unfortunately all the evidence points to Matthew. Gloria, who has been wishing Matthew would ask her on a date, thinks he is innocent and is willing to help, but hardnosed Detective Ferguson is hot on the clues, and closing in on Matthew.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-22
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Sergeant Ryker
Overview: During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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This Year's Blonde
Overview: First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-18
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Guardian of the Wilderness
Overview: In 1861, miner Galen Clark (Denver Pyle) learns he has consumption and decides to travel west in his final months. During the journey, he meets naturalist John Muir (John Dehner), who encourages him to live. Along with Native American Teneiya (Don Shanks), Galen builds a cabin and settles with his daughter, Kathleen (Cheryl Miller). When loggers threaten to destroy their community and the forest, Galen joins forces with Muir and Teneiya to advocate for the area's preservation as Yosemite Park.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-12-07
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Quick, Before It Melts
Overview: A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare
Overview: It's time for the annual Dooley family reunion and Dooley matriarch Meemaw's 100th birthday celebration. But teenaged Billy is welcomingly distracted from wacky relatives and the ultra-competitive family games by a mysterious runaway named Samantha. In the meantime, Meemaw, does some running away herself.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Transylvania 6-5000
Overview: Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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What Makes Sammy Run?
Overview: An adaptation of Budd Schulberg's incendiary 1941 novel about the rise of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer. The production was divided into two parts and aired on NBC's Sunday Showcase.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Overview: A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Pat Boone and Family: A Christmas Special
Overview: Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special presents a festive celebration of favorite holiday songs and comedic moments with The Hudson Brothers plus an array of ABC-TV stars: Norman Fell & Audra Lindley (Three's Company), Tom Bosley (Happy Days) and Gavin McLeod (The Love Boat) as well as Dinah Shore and Rosemary Clooney. Yogi Bear & Friends join in for It's Okay To Be A Kid At Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-08
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Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Overview: Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after drinking poisoned whiskey and the rape and murder of a young woman.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Destiny of Marty Fine
Overview: Marty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter sees something he shouldn't have - a mob hit. An old gangster offers a deal: Marty can save his own skin by committing a murder, or be killed himself. When push comes to shove, Marty can't kill the mark, a scamming club owner. Now the clock is ticking and Marty is on the ropes, with one last chance to prove he is still a man with a choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-16
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Overview: When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
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For the Boys
Overview: Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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The Young Warriors
Overview: In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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