John Crawford
Also Known As: Johnny Crawford, Cleve Allen Richardson, Cleve Richardson, Jack Crawford, جان کرافورد
Biography: Burly, handsome and rugged character actor John Crawford appeared in over 200 movies and TV shows combined in a career that spanned over 40 years, usually cast as tough and/or villainous characters. Crawford was born Cleve Richardson on September 13, 1920, in Colfax, Washington. He was discovered by a Warner Bros. scout while attending the University of Washington's School of Drama. Although he failed his screen test, Crawford nonetheless joined RKO as a laborer. He then got a job building sets at Circle Theater in Los Angeles, and eventually persuaded the producers to cast him in some of their plays. He was soon signed to Columbia Pictures to act in secondary roles in westerns. In the late 1950s he graduated to bigger parts in such films as Ordre de tuer (1958), La clé (1958) and Un homme pour le bagne (1960), all of which were made in the UK. Crawford returned to America in the early 1960s and began a prolific career in both movies and TV series, up until 1986. His most memorable film roles include the ill-fated chief engineer inL'aventure du Poséidon (1972), the hearty Tom Iverson in La fugue (1975), the bumbling mayor of San Francisco in L'inspecteur ne renonce jamais (1976), hard-nosed police chief Buzz Cavanaugh in Un couple en fuite (1977) and amiable old mine hand Brian Deerling in The Boogens (1981). John had recurring parts as Sheriff Ep Bridges inLa famille des collines (1971) and Capt. Parks on Sergent Anderson (1974). Among the many TV shows he made guest appearances in are The Lone Ranger (1949), Superman(1952), Les espions (1965), La quatrième dimension (1959), Les incorruptibles (1959),La grande caravane (1957), Le fugitif (1963), Star Trek (1966), Perdus dans l'espace(1965), Bonanza (1959), Stalag 13 (1965), Mission impossible (1966), Gunsmoke(1955), Super Jaimie (1976), Dallas (1978) and Dynastie (1981). Crawford died at age 90 following complications from a stroke on September 21, 2010, in Thousand Oaks, California. He's survived by his ex-wife Ann Wakefield, four daughters and two grandchildren. - IMDb Mini Biography
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colfax, Washington, USA
Birthday: September 13, 1920
Deathday: September 21, 2010
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Gender: Male
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Duel at Diablo
Overview: In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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The Enforcer
Overview: Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
Overview: Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
Genres: Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-27
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Night Moves
Overview: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Tilt
Overview: Tilt is the story of a precocious young girl who is a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away from home. Skipping school one day, she decides to go to to Mickey's Bar. Mickey, who is Tilt's good friend, helps her set up a gambler for a pinball game. Because the gambler is unaware of Tilt's pinball wizardry, he is easily hustled out of his money. While watching the confrontation, a young man named Neil Gallagher, who is an aspiring musician, is impressed with Tilt's ability, congratulating her after the win. Neil invites Tilt to watch him sing at a rock concert, and after his performance she believes he can become a great singer. Because Neil needs money for a demo tape of his songs, he has an idea of taking Tilt with him and having her hustle would-be gamblers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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The Boogens
Overview: Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Hell Is a City
Overview: Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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Solomon and Sheba
Overview: Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Prisoners of the Casbah
Overview: A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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The Man Who Was Nobody
Overview: A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
Overview: Crooks discover a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border but the treasure is hidden somewhere on land. In their efforts to find the hidden treasure they resort to murder and sabotage to stop the construction of the Alcan highway which will bring homesteaders to the area. Sergeant Royal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police battles through 12 episodes to find the crooks and to learn the identity of their mysterious leader known only as 'The Boss'.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Impersonator
Overview: When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Come Fly with Me
Overview: Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Intent to Kill
Overview: While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Raton Pass
Overview: Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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The Severed Arm
Overview: Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-02
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Donovan's Kid
Overview: Timothy Donovan, a con-man, returns to San Francisco to see his wife and daughter. Realizing his family is under the control of his wife's domineering uncle, Timothy Donovan teams up with a fellow con-man to free them.
Genres: Western Family Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-07
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Outlaw Blues
Overview: An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a country music superstar. When his confrontation with the star takes a violent turn the ex-con has to go back on the run, but he finds an unexpected ally in a shrewd background singer with a plan to turn the tables in his favor.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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Serpent of the Nile
Overview: Cleopatra toys with Mark Antony who wants to merge his Rome with her Egypt.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Jesse James vs. the Daltons
Overview: Joe Branch, reputed to be the son of Jesse James, comes riding into Coffeyville Kansas, looking for proof one way or the other regarding the question of who his father was.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-02
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Lonely Heart Bandits
Overview: Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-29
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Battle of Rogue River
Overview: In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be accomplished. A new Army commander, Major Archer, is dispatched to bring order and peace to the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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The Invisible Monster
Overview: Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
Overview: Two British officers are assigned to collect information to convict Captain Kidd of piracy.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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The Ravine
Overview: In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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Hard Knocks
Overview: A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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The Two-Five
Overview: A police show pilot movie dealing with two eager-beaver cops who try to set up a major narcotics bust anonymously because their eccentric commander wants to keep his precinct out of the limelight.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-14
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The Americanization of Emily
Overview: American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-27
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The Other Victim
Overview: After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-04
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A Star Shall Rise
Overview: Story of the Three Magi's search for the Christ child following their discovery of a new star foretold in Jewish scripture and Zoroastrain religious texts.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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The Asphalt Jungle
Overview: Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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The Poseidon Adventure
Overview: When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
Overview: A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-02
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The 300 Spartans
Overview: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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Slaves of Babylon
Overview: The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-21
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The Long Shadow
Overview: Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-31
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Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Overview: Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who killed her father are trying to drive her out of the mine so they can take it over.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-30
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Spring Night, Summer Night
Overview: Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-28
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Overview: Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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The Big Heat
Overview: After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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I Saw What You Did
Overview: Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-21
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The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Overview: The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife, despite his vehement denials of the crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-17
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Return of the Gunfighter
Overview: A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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Radar Patrol vs. Spy King
Overview: The war lords of a potential enemy of the US has the spy ring, led by John Baroda, the Spy King and his aide Nitra, sabotaging the plans for a vast defense system of radar stations along the American borders. Radar Defense Bureau operative Chris Calvert comes to the rescue of a brilliant radar scientist, Joan Hughes, who has been kidnapped by Baroda henchmen in chapter 1 ("The Fatal Fog"), and the two battle together before putting an end to the Spy King in the aptly-named chapter 12, "Day of Reckoning".
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-23
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Northwest Territory
Overview: Wilderness adventure starring Kirby Grant and Chinook.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-09
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Old Oklahoma Plains
Overview: One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-25
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Message to My Daughter
Overview: A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-13
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Zombies of the Stratosphere
Overview: Martians come to Earth to build an H-bomb strong enough to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can be moved into its place in closer proximity to the sun. Super-scientist Larry Martin, inventor of the first stratospheric-flight spaceship as well as a jet-powered personal flying suit with helmet, is called upon by the government to investigate ramped-up UFO reports occasioned by the Martians' spaceships. The Martians, meanwhile, led by Marex, engage a renegade earth scientist and a gaggle of gangsters to help them steal supplies, operate a menacing robot, and build their bomb. This movie serial in 12 chapters was originally planned as a sequel to "Radar Men From The Moon" with Commando Cody as the hero but at the last moment the main characters' names were changed and all other references to that serial removed from the script.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-25
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Son of Geronimo
Overview: The self-styled son of Indian chief Geronimo gets himself involved with a gang of nasty whites in this typical low-budget 15 chapter serial, which benefitted from a great deal of footage from the the stock piles at Columbia Pictures. Jim Scott and wagon train boss Tulsa are on to the nefarious schemes of Rance Rankin and Ace Devlin, getting words of warning through to Portico, the Son of Geronimo. With Portico's help, the white renegades are finally destroyed in the serial's concluding chapter, "Peace Treaty." Moore, the future star of the television series The Lone Ranger, was here billed "Clay Moore."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Overview: Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Dreamer
Overview: The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion Harry wanted to be — and never was. Torn between ambition and love, Dreamer fights to have both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Ghost of Zorro
Overview: Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more than a cowboy in a black mask in this 12 chapter Republic serial. Mason, the head of the telegraph line work crew, assumes his ancestor's trade-mark mask (but not whip) in order to prevent a local czar (Roy Barcroft) from sabotaging the burgeoning telegraph line. Pamela Blake, a brunette starlet formerly known as Adele Pearce, played Mason's imperiled girlfriend, and the serial also benefitted from the usual competent work of Republic's great stunt-performers, including Dale van Sickel, Tom Steele, Eddie Parker, and Joe Yrigoyen.
Genres: Adventure Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-24
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Sons of Adventure
Overview: This western mystery offers a behind-the-scenes look at movie making. The trouble begins when a cowboy star is mysteriously killed on the set. A detective investigates and becomes determined to save the prime suspect. Despite the terrible danger he faces, the investigator does not stop until the real culprit has been apprehended and justice is served.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Rebel City
Overview: Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-10
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Star of Texas
Overview: Ed Ryan is a Texas ranger who goes undercover to trap a criminal gang headed by Luke Andrews. Posing as the wanted killer Robert Larkin, Ed is able to move freely amongst the town riffraff. Marshal Bullock learns that the brains behind the gang of Luke Andrews is a group of supposed respectable businessmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-11
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Lawman Without a Gun
Overview: During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-30
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Floods of Fear
Overview: A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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The Key
Overview: In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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Jason and the Argonauts
Overview: Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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J.W. Coop
Overview: After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that not only has the business of rodeo changed during his incarceration but society as a whole has made dramatic changes as well.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-23
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Blackhawk
Overview: Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-24
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island looking for a hidden treasure.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-15
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Overview: Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Honeychile
Overview: A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-20
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Orders to Kill
Overview: A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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The Devil's Messenger
Overview: In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Sky Trap
Overview: A young man in Arizona, in trying to save his mother’s business, takes off in a sailplane and finds a secret landing strip. He finds that it is being used by drug smugglers, and he works to catch them.
Genres: Crime Adventure Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-13
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Hollywood Story
Overview: A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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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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John Paul Jones
Overview: The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: War History Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-16
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The Time of Their Lives
Overview: Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-13
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Trader Tom of the China Seas
Overview: In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-06
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The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Strange Homecoming
Overview: A small-town sheriff is surprised to see his brother show up in town, a man whom he hasn't seen in 20 years--and who has graduated from petty thievery to murder.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-29
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Piccadilly Third Stop
Overview: A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-05
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Desperate Women
Overview: A laconic ex-hired gun in the Old West teams up with three scrappy female prisoners abandoned in the desert, two orphaned children, an army deserter, and a group of cantankerous animals, all of whom try to outsmart and outshoot a ratty gang of desperadoes trying to retrieve their boss' girlfriend and the saddle-tramp's secret cargo.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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Actors and Sin
Overview: Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old boy--is the author of a borderline pornographic book.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-18
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Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
Overview: When Captain Kidd is reprieved from the gallows by a greedy nobelman who wants to know the location of his buried treasure, he sets off across the seven seas with faithful slave girl Eva Gabor in tow.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Grave Secrets
Overview: A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-14
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Satan's Satellites
Overview: Feature version of the 1951 American serial film, "Zombies of the Stratosphere".
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Macahans
Overview: Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-19
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