Kim Darby
Also Known As: Deborah Zerby
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kim Darby (born July 8, 1947) is an American actress perhaps best known for co-starring with John Wayne and country singer/actor Glen Campbell in the 1969 western True Grit.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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The Karate Killers
Overview: International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Overview: Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Overview: A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-10
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Better Off Dead...
Overview: High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock Roy Stalin, the high school ski racing champion. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his eccentric family, a tenacious paperboy and an obnoxious neighbor whose mother is hosting a beautiful French exchange student named Monique.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Teen Wolf Too
Overview: Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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True Grit
Overview: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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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 Strawberry Statement
Overview: A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
Overview: A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-07
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Overview: This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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Generation
Overview: Newlyweds shock the bride's father with plans for natural childbirth in a Greenwich Village loft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-15
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The Restless Ones
Overview: A reporter doing a story on a Christian pastor who ministers to troubled teens doesn't realize that his own son is getting mixed up with a disturbed young girl and that both of them are headed for trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Norwood
Overview: A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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The Grissom Gang
Overview: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-28
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Overview: Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The People
Overview: A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with mild paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Based on a series of novels by the late Zenna Henderson.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-22
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The Last Best Sunday
Overview: A Hispanic teenager hides out from the law in the home of a good-natured, but rebellious, Caucasian teenage girl after killing two rednecks whom beat him up and left him for dead, leading to a collision of cultures between the two youths.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-03
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This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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First Steps
Overview: Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new research by Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, about using external electric stimulations to enable paralyzed people to use their frozen muscles. She enters the research as a test subject and gets her reward when she walks up to receive her college diploma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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Embassy
Overview: US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
Genres: Action TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-21
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Summer Girl
Overview: When seductive young Cinni comes to babysit for a troubled couple, she's after more than extra spending money. Starting with the kids and working around to the husband, evil Cinni plots to take over a young mother's life--ruthlessly dealing with anyone who gets in her way.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-11
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The Capture of Grizzly Adams
Overview: A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-21
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Ironside
Overview: Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives, has been shot and left for dead while vacationing at his friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat. Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has damaged nerves in his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. Unable to gain reinstatement as chief of detectives, Ironside gets permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen volunteer. With the assistance of two former protegees, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown and Officer Eve Whitfield, and a newly-hired aide/driver, Mark Sanger, Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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The Streets of San Francisco
Overview: SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone (Karl Malden) is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller (Michael Douglas), as they investigate a girl found dead in the water, with a lawyer she knew as the primary suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-16
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
Overview: The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-04
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Overview: The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
Genres: War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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The Evil Within
Overview: The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-13
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Cold Ones
Overview: Every stranger has a secret in writer-director Garrett Clancy’s indie drama, also released as Dead Letters. Ten years after his first novel went down in flames, the hard knocks just won’t stop for K.C. Corcoran (C. Thomas Howell) - his girlfriend’s just thrown him out. K.C. hopes to get his life back on track by writing another book and heads to a remote mountain cabin to work on it … but the locals prove more hazardous than he could have guessed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Bus Riley's Back in Town
Overview: Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Newsbreak
Overview: A reporter risks his life to get to the bottom of a stack of lies, corruption and murder surrounding the opening of a local power plant.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-26
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Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
Overview: After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Deadly Embrace
Overview: A beautiful but horny and neglected Beverly Hills wife hires a hot young stud as a gardener. It eventually gets through to her husband that some hanky-panky may possibly be going on, and he begins to spy on her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-05
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Working with the Duke
Overview: Film historians, a costumer, and three of the actors relate what it was like to work with John Wayne on True Grit (1969).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-22
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True Writing
Overview: Film historians and two of the actors discuss how the original Charles Portis novel developed into the script for True Grit (1969).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-22
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