Alice Backes
Also Known As: Alice Mayrine Backes
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 17, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 15, 2007
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Overview: A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to capture a gang of outlaws led by a charming "Robin Hood of the plains," leading a band of dispossessed ranchers against a stuffy English land baron who has cheated them out of their property.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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I Want to Live!
Overview: Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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The Man from Independence
Overview: The Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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It Started with a Kiss
Overview: While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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That Touch of Mink
Overview: Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-14
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The Cat from Outer Space
Overview: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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The Fatal Impulse
Overview: A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb. Originally aired November 29, 1960, in the "Thriller" series, Season 1, Episode 11.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-29
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Gable and Lombard
Overview: A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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The Best Place to Be
Overview: A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-27
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Women in Chains
Overview: A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-25
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The Twonky
Overview: A college professor, left alone by his wife for the weekend, discovers his new TV set is not only alive, but determined to take control of his entire life.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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Crackle of Death
Overview: The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-28
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The Glory Guys
Overview: Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
Genres: Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Fear on Trial
Overview: The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Snowball Express
Overview: When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway, who wants the property, does everything he can to ensure it will fail.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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