Anthony Caruso
Also Known As: Anthony L. Caruso, Tony Caruso
Biography: Anthony Caruso (April 7, 1916 – April 4, 2003) was an American character actor in more than one hundred American films, usually playing villains and gangsters, including the first season of Walt Disney's Zorro as Captain Juan Ortega.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Frankfort, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 07, 1916
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 04, 2003
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The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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The Undercover Man
Overview: Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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A Cry in the Night
Overview: A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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Baby Face Nelson
Overview: Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Overview: Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Tennessee's Partner
Overview: A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Overview: When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-27
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City of Shadows
Overview: After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Zebra Force
Overview: In this post Vietnam War actioner, a group of veterans, former members of a crack guerrilla team, decide to reteam and use their specialized skills to fight organized crime.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-11
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Most Dangerous Man Alive
Overview: An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-04
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Don't Gamble with Strangers
Overview: Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-22
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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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Where There's Life
Overview: In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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When Gangland Strikes
Overview: In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-15
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The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Pride of the Marines
Overview: Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-24
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Where Love Has Gone
Overview: A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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The Threat
Overview: A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Hell on Frisco Bay
Overview: A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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Whistling in Brooklyn
Overview: Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Overview: A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-18
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Overview: Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-24
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The Man Behind The Gun
Overview: This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-31
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The Iron Mistress
Overview: In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.
Genres: History Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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Fort Massacre
Overview: New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through a hostile land, the obsessive and ruthless Sergeant Vinson takes to the limit the battered will of the troopers under his command.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-14
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The Catman of Paris
Overview: When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him, Charles is suspected of murder. Charles fears that he is the beast, but his paramour Marie and best friend Henry, believe he's innocent... until the creature begins to stalk Marie.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-20
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Always in My Heart
Overview: A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-14
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The Phantom
Overview: Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Passion
Overview: In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of Gaspar's identical twin daughters. Overjoyed, he plans to formalize his "unofficial" marriage. But trouble brews; Melo's land is of unclear title and the new Don Domingo hopes to grab it for his own profit. Violence results. Without even knowing who survived, Juan (accompanied by Rosa's tomboy sister Tonya) rides for revenge, through spectacular pastoral and wilderness scenery.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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The Oklahoman
Overview: After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-19
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
Overview: Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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The Big Land
Overview: Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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A Gun in His Hand
Overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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And Now Tomorrow
Overview: Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-22
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Young Dillinger
Overview: The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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Escape from Zahrain
Overview: Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-23
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Saskatchewan
Overview: Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-30
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The Girl from Monterrey
Overview: Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-04
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Lucky Jordan
Overview: Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Overview: The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Boots Malone
Overview: An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Raiders of the Seven Seas
Overview: After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (Donna Reed), intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo (Gerald Mohr), for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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The Lawless Eighties
Overview: After deceitful Indian agent Grat Bandas has his men shoot Brother Van, gunfighter Linc Prescott saves the peaceful circuit rider and agrees to help him put a stop to Bandas's plans to start an Indian war and grab their land for himself. Meanwhile, Prescott takes a shine to the daughter of a local rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Joe Dakota
Overview: A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-27
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Anna Lucasta
Overview: A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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The Boy from Oklahoma
Overview: A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-27
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Jail Busters
Overview: Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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Claws
Overview: A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue the bear after it kills their only son, Buck.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Never Steal Anything Small
Overview: Director Charles Lederer's 1959 musical stars James Cagney as an unscrupulous longshoreman who'll resort to every dirty trick in the book to win his union's presidency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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The Joe Piscopo Special
Overview: This is an HBO Special in which Joe Piscopo has 60 minutes to try to do many of his famous impressions. He has mostly his Saturday Night Live friends to help do small skits on the Special.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-22
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Across the Pacific
Overview: Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Overview: Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-18
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The Magnificent Matador
Overview: Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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Desert Legion
Overview: A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Discriminación Maldita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Badlanders
Overview: Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Genres: Western Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-03
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Legion of the Doomed
Overview: An American in the French Foreign Legion learns that his commanding officer is a traitor who has formed an alliance with several tribes in the Sahara desert.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-21
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Watch on the Rhine
Overview: On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-27
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The Saga of Andy Burnett
Overview: Andy's ambition is to become a farmer, but a penniless mountain man convinces him that is not the life for him. His band puts Andy through a series of tests to see if he has what it takes to become a mountain man.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-02
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Song of India
Overview: Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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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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Mean Johnny Barrows
Overview: A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Overview: A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-20
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The Toughest Man Alive
Overview: This adventurous crime drama is set in exotic Latin America and chronicles a lawman's attempt to bust up the ring of Yankee gun-smugglers who have been supplying arms to war-torn Central America. To stop them, the American agent must masquerade as a smuggler and join the gang. Meanwhile a young revolutionary is captivated by the brave words of her leader and pretends to be a singer while she looks for smugglers to sell her the weapons her group so badly needs. The agent is doing well until the smuggler he impersonates shows up and blows his cover. Fortunately, the authorities arrive before the agent is killed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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They Won't Believe Me
Overview: On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Flap
Overview: Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-13
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Walk the Proud Land
Overview: Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft) given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to automomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Incident
Overview: An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-30
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
Overview: In the 1942 film "This Gun For Hire," he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had an impact on audiences everywhere. Teamed with diminutive Veronica Lake, he became an immediately saleable commodity, and in the process helped launch the age of film noir. By 1954, Photoplay Magazine voted him the world's most popular male film star; his fellow award-winner was Marilyn Monroe. But Alan Ladd's fabulous success already contained within it the mechanism to self-destruct.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-04
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Bride of Vengeance
Overview: The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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To the Victor
Overview: An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Star in the Night
Overview: Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-13
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The Steel Lady
Overview: Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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The Crime Doctor's Courage
Overview: A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-27
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Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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The Racket Man
Overview: A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-18
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U-Boat Prisoner
Overview: Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-25
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Sunday Punch
Overview: Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Death Feud
Overview: While in town on shore leave, Joe meets, falls in love with and proposes to Anne, a beautiful woman he rescues from an attacker. Anne, however, has a past: she's a prostitute and a former heroin addict on the run from her well-connected pimp, Harry. With the help of his friend, Chris, Joe must make sure Harry can never threaten Anne again.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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My Favorite Brunette
Overview: Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-19
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News Hounds
Overview: Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Wild Harvest
Overview: Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money. Farmer's niece Fay falls for Joe. He puts her off. To get back she marries Jim whom she prods into high-grading the grain (skimming off some for private sale). The last payment on Joe's machinery is due just as he discover's what his buddy has been doing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Overview: A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-10
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Pals of the Golden West
Overview: US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Desert Pursuit
Overview: In 1852, two friends left the Nevada prospector region to relocate from en route he meets the beautiful Marie who decides to make a trek with two friends, but on the way he is attacked by three Arabs who installs camels, take these Arab adventurers to the Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-10
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Drum Beat
Overview: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Santa Fe Passage
Overview: A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-12
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The Legend of Earl Durand
Overview: The Legend Of Earl Durand was the story of a young child whose family lived near DuBois, Wyoming and made Earl live in a hut in the wild because they thought he had a contagious disease. When the local Aboriginal people discovered his plight, they took him under their wing so he grew up as a sort of wild man, completely able to live off the land. He was known as the "Robin Hood" of the West because he hunted game on Federal land which was very illegal and gave the meat to the poor.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Fort Algiers
Overview: In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-30
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The Blue Dahlia
Overview: Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-16
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His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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Sylvia
Overview: Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator named Alan Maklin (George Maharis) to do some digging, and what he finds out about her life prior to becoming a writer is quite shocking. Will the newfound knowledge ruin the marriage? Gordon Douglas (Young at Heart) directs this drama, which is based on E.V. Cunningham's book.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-10
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Ghost and the Guest
Overview: Newlyweds Webster and Jackie Frye spend their honeymoon in a sinister old country house. Before long, they are besieged by a gang of crooks, searching for a fortune in diamonds. With the help of chauffeur Harmony Jones, the honeymooners attempt to outsmart the villains.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-19
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The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Night Editor
Overview: A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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You're in the Army Now
Overview: Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Maisie Goes to Reno
Overview: A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Objective, Burma!
Overview: A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-17
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Prisoners in Petticoats
Overview: Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters and she is heading for trouble. She refuses to believe him and becomes innocently involved in some robberies and killings.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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The Desperate Mission
Overview: A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Daniel Boone: The Warrior's Path
Overview: In North Carolina, Daniel Boone hears amazing tales about Kentucky and decides to move his family there. But first he has to find the Indian path that will lead him and earn enough money trapping to repay a loan. The Indians are not happy that settlers are coming, and make life difficult for them.
Genres: Western TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-04
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Daniel Boone: The Wilderness Road
Overview: Daniel and his friends have troubles with Indians on their way to Kentucky.
Genres: Western Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-12
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Daniel Boone: The Promised Land
Overview: The wagon train on the way to Kentucky has to lighten the loads to get across the mountains and battle Indians.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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The Boy and the Bronc Buster
Overview: An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware his hero is wanted for murder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-18
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