James Farentino
Also Known As: Fred Ferrentino
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 24, 2012
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Mitzi & 100 Guys
Overview: Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Dead & Buried
Overview: After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-29
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The Final Countdown
Overview: During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Genres: War Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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The War Lord
Overview: A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Ensign Pulver
Overview: 1945, on an old cargo ship somewhere deep in the Pacific ocean: Captain Morton strives to become commander, so he demands the maximum quality of work from his crew, without granting them any freedom or favors - ignoring that they're thousand of miles away from the front. In one word: he drives his crew crazy. They are near mutiny, but no-one dares to do the first step. Until Ensign Pulver plays a prank on the captain that triggers fatal consequences...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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The Whole World Is Watching
Overview: In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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Her Alibi
Overview: A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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License to Kill
Overview: A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-16
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The Fourth Wise Man
Overview: Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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A Summer to Remember
Overview: Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Violent Midnight
Overview: An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-22
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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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Naked Lie
Overview: They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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Me, Natalie
Overview: Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-13
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Miles from Nowhere
Overview: Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a dream of completing a sub 4 minute mile and beating his arch rival. Cam persuades Frank to go to a party, when Frank wants to leave and Cam doesn't Frank decides to run home in the dark, with fatal consequences. Devastated by his friend's death and blaming himself, Cam decides to move from football to running with the goal of completing the sub 4 minute mile for his friend. A race against Frank's rival leaves the rival injured after falling off the track. The rival insults Frank and Cam starts a fight which leads to a disciplinary hearing, causing Cam to be banned from the championships. The rival organises another race though, to prove that he is better than Cam. The race is a close thing and Cam comes in a very close second, but in doing so breaks the 4 minute mile dream.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-07
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Rosie!
Overview: An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Termination Man
Overview: When a Serbian terrorist blackmails NATO and the U.N. with a deadly nerve gas, a covert squad is the Free World's last hope. Led by Dylan Pope they must "terminate" the threat before it terminates them!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-18
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Murder in the Mirror
Overview: Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begins her own investigation which takes her to the seedy parts of town and begins to expose her husbands very secret double life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-19
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The Elevator
Overview: A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elevator that is teetering on collapse.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-09
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Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
Overview: A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the boy turns out to autistic. Unhappy with the diagnoses and treatments available, they decide to work out their own therapy program for their son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Evita Peron
Overview: Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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Dazzle
Overview: Beautiful successful photographer battles evil half-sisters and evil land developers to keep the family ranch intact, following her father's death. In the midst of all this, she finds love and fulfillment.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-15
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Police Story: No Margin for Error
Overview: Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-30
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The Pad and How to Use It
Overview: A man, who lives alone in his apartment, finds his ideal woman while going to the symphony. He dates her and brings her to his pad, only to find out she came to the symphony on a ticket she got from a co-worker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-17
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The Last Producer
Overview: An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-22
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Birdbath
Overview: During the course of one night, two strangers, a lonely waif and a prodigal poet, form an unexpected connection.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Bulletproof
Overview: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set up.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Overview: Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Common Ground
Overview: Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-25
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The Sound of Anger
Overview: Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-10
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The Red Spider
Overview: A cop is found dead in a hotel, brutally murdered, a spider cut into his stomach. The police believes his death might be connected to the fact that he was a dirty cop - the internal affairs commission already was after him - but then several other people are murdered in the very same way, and there seems to be no connection between the cases. The police seeks for a blonde woman among the prostitutes.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-21
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Picking Up the Pieces
Overview: A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-22
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Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
Overview: Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Women of the Night
Overview: Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Banning
Overview: A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Overview: TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-18
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Family Sins
Overview: Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-25
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When No One Would Listen
Overview: Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really caring friends: her co-worker and neighbor Lee, and her boss Walter.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-15
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-07
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One Woman's Courage
Overview: Because Grace's husband Craig is having an affair she starts drinking. One night Grace witnesses a man attacking a girl; she helps her to the hospital but does not want to be a witness in court because of Craig, thinking that he would lose his reputation. Only when the mother of the girl appeals to her, Grace puts herself in contact with Lt. Lawson from the police department. During the trial Grace identifies Bremer as the thug but at the same time she is being asked questions about her private life. When in the end Bremer is set free, he is out to chase Grace.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-27
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Who Gets the Friends?
Overview: Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the friends?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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The Longest Night
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-12
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Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
Overview: Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
Overview: A look at the dangerous and bizarre life of an undercover cop who lives on the edge and the strife and heartbreak that comes with the job. There is also a tremendous amount of guilt and psychological pain when an undercover sting goes bad and they lose a comrade in the line of duty.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-25
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Story of a Woman
Overview: Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry and have a daughter. David is sent to Rome. Karin meets Bruno again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-13
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Crossfire
Overview: Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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The Family Rico
Overview: A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-13
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Wings of Fire
Overview: A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-14
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That Secret Sunday
Overview: A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-25
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Deep Down
Overview: A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-26
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The Cradle Will Fall
Overview: Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-24
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Something So Right
Overview: Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-30
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