Joan Hackett
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Biography: Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: East Harlem, New York City, New York, U.S.
Birthday: March 01, 1934
Deathday: October 08, 1983
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Gender: Female
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Will Penny
Overview: Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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Support Your Local Sheriff!
Overview: In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-26
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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Overview: Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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The Last of Sheila
Overview: A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
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The Terminal Man
Overview: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-19
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Only When I Laugh
Overview: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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One Trick Pony
Overview: An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Theatre 62: Rebecca
Overview: A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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How Awful About Allan
Overview: After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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The Group
Overview: It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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Dead of Night
Overview: This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-29
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Reflections of Murder
Overview: The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-24
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Rivals
Overview: A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-16
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Assignment to Kill
Overview: A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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The Young Country
Overview: An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-17
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Five Desperate Women
Overview: Five young women find themselves at the mercy of a mysterious killer while vacationing on an isolated island.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Class of '63
Overview: A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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The Possessed
Overview: A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Overview: In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Paper Dolls
Overview: Pilot for the TV series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-24
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The Escape Artist
Overview: The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-28
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Flicks
Overview: A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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The Other Man
Overview: The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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Lights Out
Overview: A toymaker develops a method to create dolls that kill. This was a pilot for a proposed but unrealized TV series to be titled "Light Out!," based on the much earlier radio program of the same name.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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The Long Summer of George Adams
Overview: A middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-18
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Pleasure Cove
Overview: The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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The Long Days of Summer
Overview: In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Mackintosh and T.J.
Overview: Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Overview: A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-16
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Overview: Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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