Harold Gould
Also Known As: Hal Gould, Harold Vernon Goldstein, هارولد گولد
Biography: Harold V. Goldstein (December 10, 1923 – September 11, 2010), best known by his stage name Harold Gould, was an American actor best known for playing Martin Morgenstern in the 1970s sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Miles Webber & also as Arnie Peterson on The Golden Girls. Gould acted in film and television for nearly 50 years, appearing in more than 300 television shows, 20 major motion pictures, and over 100 stage plays, and received Emmy Award nominations five times. He is known for playing elegant, well-dressed men, and he regularly played Jewish characters and grandfather-type figures on television and film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Gould, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 10, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 11, 2010
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The Front Page
Overview: A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Brother Bear
Overview: When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-23
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Patch Adams
Overview: The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Freaky Friday
Overview: Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-05
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Silent Movie
Overview: Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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The Strongest Man in the World
Overview: Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged mix that ends up in Dexter's cereal box, giving him superhuman strength. The powerful formula comes to the attention of the college dean and two rival cereal companies, touching off a hilarious chain of events.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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Harper
Overview: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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The Spy with My Face
Overview: Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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The Love Bug
Overview: The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new lease of life. Soon, Herbie is winning again, to the fury of his previous owner, who builds a menacing black bug to challenge Herbie to the ultimate race.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-29
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The Sting
Overview: A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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Romero
Overview: Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Get Smart, Again!
Overview: KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.
Genres: Action Comedy Family TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Seems Like Old Times
Overview: After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must hide from her husband, who’s throwing a party for law enforcement officials.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Playing for Keeps
Overview: An ambitious trio of inner-city high school grads tries to hit the big time by turning a run-down country hotel into a rock & roll resort with around-the-clock music and live entertainment. Standing in their way are fearful townsfolk, unscrupulous businessmen and the tax collector, all threatening to bring the curtain down on the teens' aspirations. But this is one threesome who refuses to give up on their lifelong goal without a fight — and a song.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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The Master of Disguise
Overview: After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey utilizes his supernatural ability to disguise himself in an attempt to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Project X
Overview: A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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My Giant
Overview: Sammy, an agitated agent lost in the forest of the modern world, happens upon a gentle giant with a tall talent for friendship named Max.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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The One and Only
Overview: Andy Schmidt manages to win fellow student Mary’s heart, but getting a job after college turns out much harder than expected. Desperate and dreaming of stardom, he tries wrestling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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The Arrangement
Overview: An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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Marnie
Overview: Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-17
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The Big Bus
Overview: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Fourth Wise Man
Overview: Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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Where Does It Hurt?
Overview: In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-24
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Overview: A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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The Lawyer
Overview: Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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The Skin of Our Teeth
Overview: Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-18
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Overview: Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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Medical Story
Overview: A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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Never Con a Killer
Overview: Pilot to the short-lived TV series "The Feather and Father Gang" has Detective Feather Danton and her con-man father Harry teaming up to outwit Runyonesque horseplayer E.J. Valerian.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-13
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11th Victim
Overview: A news anchorwoman from the Midwest comes to Hollywood to learn the truth about the death of her sister, the 11th victim of a killer preying on aspiring actresses, and finds herself possibly the next one on his list despite the help of an overworked cop.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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The Gambler
Overview: This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-08
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Aunt Mary
Overview: The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-05
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Love and Death
Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of 'Silent Movie'
Overview: A featurette about the origins of "Silent Movie," as well as its inspirations and development, direct cinematic influences, cast and performances, gag specifics and cut scenes, Brooks’ directorial style and a few other tidbits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-15
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Double Solitaire
Overview: With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew his vows to his longtime wife. But as they assess their relationship, the couple discovers that their marriage no longer has any meaning. A televised production of Robert Anderson's thoughtful play, this fascinating drama deftly examines the institution of marriage and the nature of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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Troupers
Overview: Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Stuart Little
Overview: When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Inside Daisy Clover
Overview: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
Overview: The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Lover's Knot
Overview: A pair of lovers have no idea that their affair is overseen and orchestrated by an angel sent by Cupid to see that they remain together in this romantic comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Flannery and Quilt
Overview: An abrasive, two-fisted longshoreman and a quiet calligrapher attempt to share an apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-01
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The Silent Lovers
Overview: The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
Overview: The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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For Hope
Overview: The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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Gus
Overview: The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-07
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Born to Be Sold
Overview: A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-02
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The Sunset Gang
Overview: Three stories about the Jewish elderly in Florida: in "Yiddish," a man and a woman, both married to others, form a bond through their native language; in "The Detective," a married couple who have grown apart come together again as they pursue a thief in the neighborhood; and in "The Home," a woman struggles against her grown children, who want to place her in a nursing facility.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-04
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I Never Sang for My Father
Overview: A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-15
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Actor
Overview: A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-21
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The Red-Light Sting
Overview: Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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The Yellow Canary
Overview: Andy is an arrogant pop singer about to be divorced by his wife who treats his staff badly. On the same night he starts a job at a theater in Los Angeles his infant son is kidnapped. Despite requests from the lead police officer on the case, Lieutenant Bonner, Paxton plays along with the kidnappers as they string him along even though they are willing to kill.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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ESL: English as a Second Language
Overview: Bolivar De La Cruz (Kuno Becker) and Lola Sara (Danielle Camastra) share only ethnicity. He's just arrived from Mexico looking for work. Father´s Lola made the same journey twenty years ago. Now, Bolivar and Lola find themselves on a collision course with the events that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-04
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Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Overview: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-28
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The Dream Chasers
Overview: Two unlikely companions face gun-slinging cowboys and their own personal family conflicts as they learn the importance of friendship, loyalty, and forgiveness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Satan Bug
Overview: A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-26
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Ransom for a Dead Man
Overview: A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-09
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A Death of Innocence
Overview: A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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Ready for the People
Overview: In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-01
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Help Wanted: Male
Overview: An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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The Couch
Overview: A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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An American Dream
Overview: Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-31
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Beloved
Overview: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Better Late Than Never
Overview: Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-17
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Brown's Requiem
Overview: Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed up with a Beverly Hills sugar daddy named Sol Kupferman. Kupferman is a 70 year-old bag man for the mob, and Fat Dog claims that "Solly K" is up to something evil that may harm Jane. The trail leads Fritz to an encounter with his dark past in the person of Haywood Cathcart, current head of LAPD internal affairs and the person who kicked Fritz off the police force.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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Murdock's Gang
Overview: After serving a prison term, a flamboyant attorney becomes a private eye with a staff of ex-cons.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-20
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King Crab
Overview: Two brothers take over the family seafood business, and battle each other for control of the company - and their father's attention.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-15
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Have I Got a Christmas for You
Overview: Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Killer: A Journal of Murder
Overview: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser thinks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
Overview: A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Dying on the Edge
Overview: An ex cop turned insurance investigator tries to hold his life together as he investigates the death of a music producer who may have been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-11
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