George Macready
Also Known As: George Peabody Macready Jr.
Biography: George Peabody Macready, Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Macready, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birthday: August 29, 1899
Deathday: July 03, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Paths of Glory
Overview: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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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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Detective Story
Overview: Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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A Lady Without Passport
Overview: An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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The Great Race
Overview: Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-01
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Dead Ringer
Overview: The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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Seven Days in May
Overview: A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Overview: The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-16
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Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Follow the Boys
Overview: During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.
Genres: Music Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-05
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The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Count Yorga, Vampire
Overview: Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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The Return of Count Yorga
Overview: Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
Overview: A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-30
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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My Name Is Julia Ross
Overview: Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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The Human Duplicators
Overview: An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Taras Bulba
Overview: Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
Genres: Adventure Romance History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Coroner Creek
Overview: A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-01
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The Alligator People
Overview: Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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The Soul of a Monster
Overview: A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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The Green Glove
Overview: In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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Johnny Allegro
Overview: Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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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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Counter-Attack
Overview: Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-26
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Where Love Has Gone
Overview: A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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A Kiss Before Dying
Overview: A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Thunder Over Arizona
Overview: Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-04
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Fortunes of Captain Blood
Overview: When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Overview: A PI investigates a priest's murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Overview: The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Beyond Glory
Overview: Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-03
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Jet Over The Atlantic
Overview: Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
Overview: As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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The Abductors
Overview: Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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Duffy of San Quentin
Overview: San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Plunderers of Painted Flats
Overview: To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-23
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The Monster and the Ape
Overview: A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
Overview: A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-04
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The Man Who Dared
Overview: A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Genres: Crime Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-30
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Asylum for a Spy
Overview: A spy wants to "come in from the cold" since his last assignment resulted in the death of two innocent people. But the service cannot let a man quit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-02
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The Black Arrow
Overview: A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
Genres: Action Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-18
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Down to Earth
Overview: Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-21
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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The Gallant Blade
Overview: Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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The Fighting Guardsman
Overview: A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-24
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The Swordsman
Overview: Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Overview: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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The Golden Horde
Overview: The Princess of Samarkand and an English knight confront the armies of Genghis Khan.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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The Return of Monte Cristo
Overview: Louis Hayward, star of 1940's Son of Monte Cristo, returns to Alexandre Dumas territory in Columbia's Return of Monte Cristo. This time, Hayward plays the grandson of his namesake Edmond Dantes, who, it will be recalled, was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles (Steven Geray), Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright. One of his principal antagonists - at least during the first half of the film - is haughty aristocrat Angele Picard (Barbara Britton), who because she wasn't a part of the original conspiracy genuinely believes that Dantes is a criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-19
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Tarzan's Peril
Overview: Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-13
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Wilson
Overview: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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The Nevadan
Overview: A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
Overview: Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs into Jules Mourret who knows of his past. He takes a job on the stage line that Mourret is trying to steal gold from. When Mourret's men kill a friend of his he sets out to get Mourret and his men. When his plan to have another gang get Mourret fails, he has to go after them himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-30
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Vera Cruz
Overview: After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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The Young Lawyers
Overview: Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-28
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I Beheld His Glory
Overview: Cornelius is a Roman Centurion who, upon orders from the Apostle Thomas, is sent to proclaim the glories of Christ. Cornelius recounts Jesus' Entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and His appearance before Mary Magdalene.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-31
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Daughter of the Mind
Overview: Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-09
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Gunfire at Indian Gap
Overview: A stagecoach is attacked by a group of outlaws who make off with a pile of money. Unfortunately for Mexican Juan, the sheriff believes he's one of the criminals and has him locked up. But the beautiful Cheel thinks Juan is innocent, and offers to help him escape. Overhearing their plan, the real mastermind behind the heist forces Juan to act as the runner for the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Don Juan Quilligan
Overview: When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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Night Gallery
Overview: This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-08
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The Art Director
Overview: A film's art director is in charge of the set, from conception to construction to furnishing. This short film walks the viewer through art directors' responsibilities and the demands on their talents. They read a script carefully and design a set to capture the time and place, the social strata, and the mood. They must be scholars of the history of architecture, furnishings, and fashion. They choose the colors on a set in anticipation of the lighting and the mood. Their work also sets styles, from Art Deco in the 20's to 30s modernism. Then it's on to the next project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-12
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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The Golden Blade
Overview: Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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A Song to Remember
Overview: Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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The Seventh Cross
Overview: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-24
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The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-21
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