Albert Dekker
Also Known As: Thomas Albert Ecke Van Dekker
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. He is sometimes credited as Albert Van Dekker or Albert van Dekker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Dekker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: December 20, 1905
Deathday: May 05, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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East of Eden
Overview: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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The Wild Bunch
Overview: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-19
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Dr. Cyclops
Overview: Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Genres: Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-09
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The Pretender
Overview: Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-11
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Experiment Perilous
Overview: In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Suspense
Overview: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-15
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Gentleman's Agreement
Overview: A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
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The Furies
Overview: A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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Gammera the Invincible
Overview: An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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Seven Sinners
Overview: Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-25
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In Old California
Overview: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
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In Old Oklahoma
Overview: Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-06
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Destination Murder
Overview: Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-09
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The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Overview: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Beau Geste
Overview: When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-24
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Among the Living
Overview: A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Overview: A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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The Kid from Texas
Overview: Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Kiss Me Deadly
Overview: One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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Search for Danger
Overview: The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Illegal
Overview: A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-09
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The Kansan
Overview: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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These Thousand Hills
Overview: A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-07
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Strange Cargo
Overview: Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Machete
Overview: This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis, for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos. Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel, poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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The Lady Has Plans
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Middle of the Night
Overview: Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Cass Timberlane
Overview: Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
Overview: Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-25
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Night in New Orleans
Overview: A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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The French Key
Overview: Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-18
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Buckskin Frontier
Overview: A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Fury at Furnace Creek
Overview: The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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She Devil
Overview: Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Incendiary Blonde
Overview: Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-25
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Bride of Vengeance
Overview: The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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The Sound and the Fury
Overview: Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Overview: An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-05
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Blonde Inspiration
Overview: A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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The Fabulous Texan
Overview: A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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Slave Girl
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Woman of the Town
Overview: Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-31
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Come Spy with Me
Overview: Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful leaders.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Two Years Before the Mast
Overview: In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-22
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Overview: A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Overview: At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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As Young as You Feel
Overview: Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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Reaching for the Sun
Overview: Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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Hold That Blonde!
Overview: Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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She Married an Artist
Overview: Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which prompts Toni to seek retribution in divorce court.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-27
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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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The Great Commandment
Overview: Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-02
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Never Say Die
Overview: Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-13
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Rangers of Fortune
Overview: An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Yokel Boy
Overview: A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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The Last Warning
Overview: In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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Buy Me That Town
Overview: A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Salome, Where She Danced
Overview: During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
Genres: Western War Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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California
Overview: "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-21
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Overview: In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-23
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Once Upon a Tractor
Overview: Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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Lulu Belle
Overview: Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-15
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The Silver Chalice
Overview: A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Wyoming
Overview: Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-28
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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You're the One
Overview: 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-19
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The Great Garrick
Overview: A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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Extortion
Overview: In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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