Hoyt Axton
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Biography: Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. Among his best-known songs are "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer", and "Never Been to Spain".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: March 25, 1938
Deathday: October 26, 1999
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Gender: Male
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Gremlins
Overview: When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Disorganized Crime
Overview: Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-14
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We're No Angels
Overview: Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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Heart Like a Wheel
Overview: Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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King Cobra
Overview: 30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-10
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Buried Alive
Overview: A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-09
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Endangered Species
Overview: A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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The Black Stallion
Overview: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-13
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Christmas Comes to Willow Creek
Overview: Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-20
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Deadline Auto Theft
Overview: After the attempted theft of his daughter's husband's car, LAPD Captain Gibbs declares war on master car thief Maindrian Pace, whose insurance investigation company provides the perfect front. A South American drug lord pays Pace and his team to steal 48 cars for him, so they set out on the job while the police frantically try to track him down. Their efforts pay off when Pace's boss double-crosses him and tips them off on his next job. Police pursue Pace in "Eleanor", the last of the cars needed to fulfill their contract, through southern California as he tries to get away.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Liar's Moon
Overview: In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. Over her father's strenuous objections, she spends time with Jack. At summer's end, Jack and Ginny elope to Louisiana (where 17-year-olds can marry without their parents' permission), and he gets a job in the oil fields. Her dad hires a menacing private eye to find them, Ginny's pregnant, her town doctor gives her horrible news, and Jack's mom has her own agenda. It seems that Jack and Ginny have grown up under a liar's moon. What will these sweethearts do?
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-15
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Number One Fan
Overview: A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-26
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Overview: This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-03
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Dorf Goes Auto Racing
Overview: World-famous European race car driver, Duessel Dorf, comes to America to take on his greatest challenge-stock car racing in the Indy 500. However, Dorf, with his usual skill, soon turns the race into a shambles and sets the world of stock car racing on its ear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Cocaine Blues
Overview: A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
Overview: A Louisiana governor becomes a controversial political kingpin during the Depression.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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Harmony Cats
Overview: Graham Braithwaite is a violinist in a B.C. symphony. Unfortunately the symphony folds and much to his horror and disdain, he's forced to get a gig with a country band as the bassist. He has to leave the city and his girlfriend, Jane, to tour the B.C. interior with Frank Hay and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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Cloud Dancer
Overview: An aerobatic pilot comes to terms with his work, his photographer ex-lover and a brash newcomer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-29
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Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
Overview: Duell McCall is an outlaw on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Captured by the law and coerced into helping rescue the daughter of the evil local land baron, he finds himself drawn into an ever-deepening web of lies that threatens to cost him his life.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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Smoky
Overview: A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is determined to set it free.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-03
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The Black Stallion Returns
Overview: "Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec finally unravels the mystery of Black's theft...only to discover that he must overcome even greater odds to reclaim his beloved horse.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Act of Vengeance
Overview: In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-04
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Retribution
Overview: After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gangster.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Dixie Lanes
Overview: Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion greet Clarence upon his return - his pre-war moonshine activities and absence have embittered his teenage son, split apart his family, and alienated the small town. Moreover, his conniving sister-in-law conspires with the crooked sheriff to prevent a family reconciliation. In attempting to stabilize his family, and in seeking to punish the conspirator who brought him before the law, Clarence almost destroys both the town and his family. But sanity, love and music conquer all, and family and town are reunited.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-03
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Dallas: The Early Years
Overview: Prequel to the popular "Dallas" TV series focuses on the origins of the Ewing-Barnes feud during the 1930's. Larry Hagman provides the opening narration for the film. The story opens at a 1951 barbecue with "Digger" Barnes firing a shot at "Jock" Ewing. Immediately flashing back to the depression, the two men first meet in a boxcar as both are hoboing. Their original friendship is built on their desires to find oil. But their failings start as they both compete for the hand of the beautiful Miss Ellie. Jock is shown to be an honorable man caught up in a backlash. Digger is a neurotic, alcoholic with a gift for finding oil.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-22
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Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Overview: Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.
Genres: Music Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
Overview: A deputy catches Duell and is bringing him in and some men who want the reward try to get Duell from the deputy. There's a gunfight and Duell's the only one left alive. He then assumes the deputy's identity and goes to the nearest town and claims the deputy to be Duell McCall. He gets the reward was about to leave the town when his ruse is discovered and he is arrested. He's about to be hanged when Nora comes and spends some time with him. He's about to be hanged when the daughter of the wealthiest man in town is abducted. He then offers to help Duell escape if he brings her back. Duell goes and finds her but she tells him why the man wants her back. Duell hesitates to turn her over to the man, so holds Nora captive till Duell brings her back.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-24
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The Junkman
Overview: As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a fiery battle, turning highways and city streets into a blazing junkyard.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-28
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Overview: A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things. When caught, she learns important lessons about truthfulness and respecting others' rights to privacy.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-09
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Space Case
Overview: In the future, mental institutions are located on far-away planets. One such planet is the apex for an invasion of Earth by rodent-like aliens. It is up to a band of intrepid mental patients to thwart their evil schemes.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle
Overview: American Documentary: A documentary celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Co., with news footage, film clips, and interviews with various celebrities who are Harley-Davidson owners.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Steel Collar Man
Overview: An android soldier and its creator are on the run from the government (which it was created for and wants to destroy it), and find help from a truck driver with whom they help people.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-07
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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Overview: A warmhearted memorial to the folk singer whose songs galvanized organizers and guitar-pickers across the United States. Part biography, part travelogue and part hootenanny, it follows the singer's son, Arlo Guthrie, as he retraces his father's steps and collects reminiscences from his father's family, friends and musical partners.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Season of Change
Overview: A girl discovers her father's secret, changing their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-16
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Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins
Overview: This new retrospective features new interviews with director Joe Dante, star Zach Galligan, writer Chris Columbus, executive producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and producer Michael Finnell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-30
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Doorways
Overview: Cat, a fugitive from a parallel Earth ruled by aliens, lands on "our" Earth in the middle of a freeway, causing an accident.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-21
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