Jay C. Flippen
Also Known As: John Constantine Flippen Jr.
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jay C. Flippen (born March 6, 1899, Little Rock, Arkansas – February 3, 1971, Los Angeles, California) is an American character actor who often played police officers or weary criminals in many movies of the 1940s/'50s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay C. Flippen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 05, 1899
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 03, 1971
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The Killing
Overview: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Firecreek
Overview: A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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The Seven Minutes
Overview: To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the original publication of the book.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-23
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Cat Ballou
Overview: A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-24
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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The Las Vegas Story
Overview: When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-30
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Hellfighters
Overview: The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-27
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The Halliday Brand
Overview: Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Brute Force
Overview: Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Run of the Arrow
Overview: When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-05
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Oklahoma!
Overview: In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Genres: Western Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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Six Bridges to Cross
Overview: Follow the evolution of a small time juvenile delinquent hood to a big time racketeer. Based on the famous 1950 Brinks Robbery in Boston that netted the crooks $2.5 million. The story delves into the psychology of the perpetrators, as well as the intricate mechanics of the hold-up.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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The People Against O'Hara
Overview: A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Winchester '73
Overview: Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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7th Cavalry
Overview: An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Man Without a Star
Overview: A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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Thunder Bay
Overview: Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Strategic Air Command
Overview: Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Carnival Story
Overview: In search of a better life, a German girl named Willi joins an American carnival passing through Munich. While traveling from town to town, she is torn between two suitors: cruel carnival barker Joe and kindhearted high-dive artist Frank. Frank gets the upper hand when he asks Willi to join his act. The partners soon become the most popular attraction at the carnival. But tragedy is only a slip away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-16
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They Live by Night
Overview: An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Love That Brute
Overview: The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-06
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Bend of the River
Overview: Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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Buccaneer's Girl
Overview: A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Intrigue
Overview: Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-06
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Flying Leathernecks
Overview: Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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The Far Country
Overview: During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Wild River
Overview: A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Jet Pilot
Overview: John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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The Midnight Story
Overview: Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. But traffic cop Joe Martini becomes obsessed with finding the killer; he suspects Sylvio Malatesta. Ordered off the case, Joe turns in his badge and investigates alone. Soon he is a close friend of the Malatesta family, all delightful people, especially lovely cousin Anna. Uncertain whether Sylvio is guilty or innocent, Joe is now torn between old and new loyalties.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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A Woman's Secret
Overview: A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-13
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Hot Summer Night
Overview: An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-15
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Two Flags West
Overview: A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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The Yellow Cab Man
Overview: Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-25
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The Deerslayer
Overview: After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-10
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The Ham What Am
Overview: In this Vitaphone short, Jay C. Flippen performs "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon" and "Magnolia," as well as a vaudeville comedy routine.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-30
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The Restless Breed
Overview: Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Down to the Sea in Ships
Overview: During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-15
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Devil's Canyon
Overview: An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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The Plunderers
Overview: Four young toughs have ridden into Trail City and claimed it as easy pickings for their bullying and gunplay. The whole town will be overrun by lawlessness if decent folks like rancher and Civil War veteran Sam Christy don’t take a stand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-05
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The Lady from Texas
Overview: An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Studs Lonigan
Overview: A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Looking for Love
Overview: An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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From Hell to Texas
Overview: The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Overview: Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Trapped
Overview: Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-27
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East of Sumatra
Overview: Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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The Model and the Marriage Broker
Overview: A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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The King and Four Queens
Overview: Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
Genres: Western Comedy Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Escape from Red Rock
Overview: Pursued by a posse, a rancher and a young woman, partners in crime, are chased into Indian country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Public Pigeon No. 1
Overview: Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-17
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-13
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The Wild One
Overview: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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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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It's Always Fair Weather
Overview: Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-30
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Flippen's Frolics
Overview: In a New York City cabaret setting, Jay. C. Flippen (using his Colonel Flippen character, as J. C. Flippen) emcees and introduces various stage, vaudeville and radio acts and performers, including Rose Marie), when still billed as Baby Rose Marie, who does a couple of song-and-dance numbers.. A singing trio called The Manhattanites sings a song and Bill Powers and His Steppers do some stepping. Flippen and Lew Seiler pair up to do a vaudeville routine. And all done in exactly 18 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-15
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Woman of the North Country
Overview: In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range represents a whole new productive area but the rights to mine there are held by a young geological engineer, Kyle Ramlo. The latter reaches an impasse when he needs money to continue his experimentation with open-pit mining and goes to Miss Powell for financing. She displays great interest in both his inventive mining method and in him personally but secretly plots to destroy him and take over his Masabi rights. The gullible Ramlo falls into clutches while the girl he really loves, Cathy Norlund, tries desperately to open his eyes to Christine's scheme.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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How the West Was Won
Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Kismet
Overview: A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.
Genres: Music Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-08
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Marie Galante
Overview: On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-25
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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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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Million Dollar Ransom
Overview: To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Overview: An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-01
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Overview: A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Six Gun Law
Overview: Re-edited version of two episodes from the Disney series "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" starring Robert Loggia as a lawyer trying to save a friend from being framed for robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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