John Roy
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lisle, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 03, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 31, 1975
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Hell Bound
Overview: After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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The Yellow Mountain
Overview: A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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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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To Be or Not to Be
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Silver City
Overview: Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
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Phantom of the Opera
Overview: Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-12
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Criss Cross
Overview: An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Cheyenne Autumn
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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Some Came Running
Overview: A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Overview: An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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The Gunfight at Dodge City
Overview: Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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The First Texan
Overview: After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
Genres: History Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Broken Lance
Overview: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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Frontier Gun
Overview: Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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River of No Return
Overview: An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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The Reckless Moment
Overview: After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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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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Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Frenchie
Overview: Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Overview: The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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The Underworld Story
Overview: A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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Hello, Dolly!
Overview: Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Guys and Dolls
Overview: Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Brainstorm
Overview: Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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North by Northwest
Overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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Witness for the Prosecution
Overview: An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Overview: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-08
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The Solid Gold Girl
Overview: While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of his is being tried for robbery and murder. The outlaw has hidden the loot and offers to reveal the location to Destry, but instead provides the location to Patience Dailey, a gold digging saloon singer played by Tammy Grimes.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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Not With My Wife, You Don't
Overview: During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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The Tin Star
Overview: An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Brigham Young
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Overview: A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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Fingerprints Don't Lie
Overview: A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Cult of the Cobra
Overview: While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Advise & Consent
Overview: Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Dangerous When Wet
Overview: The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-18
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The Egyptian
Overview: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Invisible Invaders
Overview: Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-15
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Edge of Darkness
Overview: The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Overview: Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Some Like It Hot
Overview: Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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Frenchman's Creek
Overview: An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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The Flame and the Arrow
Overview: Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Albuquerque
Overview: Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-20
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Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-04
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Monkeys, Go Home!
Overview: Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-08
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They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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The Black Castle
Overview: A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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Crack-Up
Overview: Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Munster, Go Home!
Overview: Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Freddie Munster, who throws tantrums because he wasn't named Lord Munster. An on-board romance had blossomed between Marilyn and Roger, but on land Marilyn discovers Roger's family holds a longstanding grudge against the Munsters.
Genres: Comedy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Merry Widow
Overview: Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Sunrise at Campobello
Overview: The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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Pursued
Overview: A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Cleopatra
Overview: The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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