Noble Willingham
Also Known As: Nobel Willingham
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. (August 31, 1931 — January 17, 2004) was an American television and film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Noble Willingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mineola, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 31, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 17, 2004
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City Slickers
Overview: Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Good Morning, Vietnam
Overview: A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Chinatown
Overview: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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The Howling
Overview: After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-21
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Article 99
Overview: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Badge of the Assassin
Overview: Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-04
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The Last Picture Show
Overview: High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-03
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Up Close & Personal
Overview: Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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The Last Boy Scout
Overview: When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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The Boys in Company C
Overview: Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-02
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Fire in the Sky
Overview: After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted their friend. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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The Georgia Peaches
Overview: A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the side are conned into working as government undercover agents to track down a dangerous criminal in this pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-08
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Coward of the County
Overview: A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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Big Bad Mama
Overview: Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-19
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Career Opportunities
Overview: Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-29
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Blind Fury
Overview: A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Shooter
Overview: "Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter and Tracey an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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The Girls of Huntington House
Overview: An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-15
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Summer Heat
Overview: The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-29
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Where Have All the People Gone
Overview: A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Black Bart
Overview: A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Men Don't Tell
Overview: This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-14
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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First Monday in October
Overview: For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Independence Day
Overview: Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-21
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Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
Overview: TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-08
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The Gambler
Overview: This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-08
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The Road Raiders
Overview: Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit group to fight in WWII.
Genres: Action TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-25
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Woman With a Past
Overview: A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the police found her in her new life: First marriage, alcohol addiction, robberies, prison, escape from prison, search for work, second marriage, fight for the children,... In the end she has not only to fight for her freedom but also for the respect and love of her betrayed children and husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-02
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The Children Nobody Wanted
Overview: True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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The Corndog Man
Overview: A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-21
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Overview: Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
Overview: Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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My Sweet Charlie
Overview: A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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Splash, Too
Overview: A sequel to the popular romantic mermaid drama, in which Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a Dolphin in captivity. You can guess which does which.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Overview: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Longarm
Overview: A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1988-03-06
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Overview: A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Overview: A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-01
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Guarding Tess
Overview: Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Overview: He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Paper Moon
Overview: A bible salesman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership as a money-making con team in Depression-era Kansas.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
Overview: An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing to assassinate a US senator who will be among the spectators.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Born in East L.A.
Overview: Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Overview: A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-15
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Aloha, Bobby and Rose
Overview: Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination.
Genres: Drama Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-29
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Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
Overview: Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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A Stoning in Fulham County
Overview: Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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Pastime
Overview: A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
Overview: The adventures of two good old boys from Texas, no-account buddies who are finally forced to face reality for themselves and for their girlfriends.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Evel Knievel
Overview: Pilot for an adventure/comedy series starring Sam Elliott as the title character and Gary Barton as his sidekick. In the pilot Evel Knievel must compete against a female motorcycle daredevil.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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La Bamba
Overview: Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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Unconquered
Overview: In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-15
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Sunshine
Overview: A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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Cindy
Overview: A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.
Genres: Music Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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Blind Horizon
Overview: Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-14
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Fighting Mad
Overview: An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties. Eventually the take-charge no-nonsense Tom Hunter exacts a harsh revenge on the villains with the help of his bow and arrow.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-21
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Just Me and You
Overview: A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Greased Lightning
Overview: The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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The Heist
Overview: Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-16
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Overview: Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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The Distinguished Gentleman
Overview: A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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Brubaker
Overview: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Overview: Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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Harry's War
Overview: After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Hit!
Overview: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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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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Sweet Poison
Overview: A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes the man's sexy wife is falling for him.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-13
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Liza’s Pioneer Diary
Overview: The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train with her young husband and his family.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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