William Lundigan
Also Known As: William Paul Lundigan, Bill Lundigan, Larry Parker
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951), The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951), and Inferno (1953).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 20, 1975
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Follow Me Quietly
Overview: When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-07
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Dishonored Lady
Overview: Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-16
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The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D
Overview: Documentary about the use of 3-D technology in Inferno (1953) and the advent of CinemaScope, in 1953 in the film The Robe (1953).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-16
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Overview: Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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The Way West
Overview: In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Inferno
Overview: When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two of them are really lovers who are leaving Carson to die in the heat. Slowly, Carson realizes he is on his own and vows revenge on the traitorous couple. Having had a privileged life, Carson must now use his wits to stay alive.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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The Fabulous Dorseys
Overview: The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Pinky
Overview: Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-28
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Love Nest
Overview: Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-10
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The Old Maid
Overview: The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Overview: Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Overview: Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Highway West
Overview: A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Dodge City
Overview: In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Overview: A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Overview: In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-08
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Riders to the Stars
Overview: Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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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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With the Marines at Tarawa
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Archives and Records Administration in 2005.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-02
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State Department: File 649
Overview: Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and when escape is clearly impossible, Seeley blows up the outlaw's headquarters, losing his own life in doing so.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-11
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The Case of the Black Parrot
Overview: Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-09
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
Overview: A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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Wives Under Suspicion
Overview: A merciless district attorney prosecutes a case that mirrors his own life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-03
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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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The Underwater City
Overview: An engineer, a psychologist and several other disparate types take part in an experiment to see if people can live for extended periods of time in a city built under the ocean.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-08
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East of the River
Overview: Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Overview: A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-15
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The Inside Story
Overview: A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Overview: War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-01
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Mystery in Mexico
Overview: Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to Mexico City. After charming his way into her confidence, Steve helps Vicki unravel the mystery.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-21
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Mother Didn't Tell Me
Overview: Jane Morgan (Dorothy McGuire) marries handsome doctor William Wright (William Lundigan), despite warnings from a host of other doctor's wives that she will be neglected and lonely, thanks to his career. Based on the novel The Doctor Has Three Faces by Mary Bard and billed as a movie with "all the answers" for new wives, this dated little film follows Jane's struggles to adapt her life to better suit her husband's needs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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Dangerous Voyage
Overview: A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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I'll Get By
Overview: I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie Lee respectively, successful song publishers who make hits out of such numbers as "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo", "Deep in the Heart of Texas", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "There Will Never Be Another You", and other favorites (the rights to all of these songs were conveniently held by 20th Century-Fox). The partnership has some hard times, especially during the feud between ASCAP and the radio networks, when only public-domain songs like "I Dream of Jeannie" were permitted to be broadcast.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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The White Orchid
Overview: In the Southern Mexican jungle, an adventurous archaeologist is accompanied by an equally daring female photographer in a search for a lost Toltec city. They engage a guide to lead them on their expedition, and soon find themselves in the jungle's depths, far from civilization. Soon both the guide and the archaeologist are vying for the affection of the photographer. They must all deal with enormous danger and sacrifice before their quest is complete.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Elopement
Overview: Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Andy Hardy's Double Life
Overview: Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for $20 to pay for a bill and he must convince his father not to go with him to college. Worst of all is that Polly wants to make up but her best friend decides to give Andy a test.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-01
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The Courtship of Andy Hardy
Overview: While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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Danger on the Air
Overview: Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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The Missing Guest
Overview: Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Overview: Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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The Black Doll
Overview: Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-31
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The Lady Fights Back
Overview: Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
Genres: Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Apache Trail
Overview: The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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The Fighting 69th
Overview: Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Three Cheers for the Irish
Overview: Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his favorite daughter, Maureen, and the Scottish cop who takes over his beat.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-16
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: TV Movie Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Northwest Rangers
Overview: Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-28
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The Bugle Sounds
Overview: An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-30
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No Time at All
Overview: An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-13
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Service with the Colors
Overview: Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Sailors on Leave
Overview: If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-30
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West Bound Limited
Overview: Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-11
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Freshman Year
Overview: A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Legion of Lost Flyers
Overview: A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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They Asked For It
Overview: In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
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Reckless Living
Overview: This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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Salute to the Marines
Overview: It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-02
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. Part of Chrysler sponsored series "Climax!"
Genres: TV Movie Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-28
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Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
Overview: Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to become more independent and to pursue successful and fulfilling careers. Moore’s own 50-plus-year career has spanned award-winning films and Broadway shows, as well as two beloved television series that broke ground and continue to entertain viewers. This one-hour special includes highlights from a recent interview with Mary Tyler Moore, tributes from her co-stars and clips from iconic moments throughout her career. The program looks at her breakthrough role on The Dick Van Dyke Show, her iconic turn as TV's first independent career woman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her Academy Award-nominated work on Ordinary People.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-13
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International Squadron
Overview: The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-13
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Marilyn
Overview: This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-18
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Headin' for God's Country
Overview: In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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Young America Flies
Overview: World War II propaganda film from Warner Brothers.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-13
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The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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State Police
Overview: The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Overview: Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-19
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The Forgotten Woman
Overview: A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-07
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Armored Car
Overview: Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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