Henry Beckman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: November 26, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 17, 2008
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Marnie
Overview: Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-17
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Sweet Charity
Overview: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-25
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Overview: Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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Death Hunt
Overview: Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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The Satan Bug
Overview: A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-26
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The Brood
Overview: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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Indict and Convict
Overview: A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-06
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The Wrong Man
Overview: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-22
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Why Rock the Boat?
Overview: A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Overview: In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Johnson County War
Overview: The three Hammett brothers, Cain, Harry and Dale are caught in a conflict that escalates rapidly and the old farmers facing against new farmers who have settled in the green grasslands.
Genres: Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-24
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13 West Street
Overview: Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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The Man Upstairs
Overview: Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-06
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Lion of Oz
Overview: Before Dorothy landed on the Wicked Witch of the East with her little farm house, the witch had to contend with another resident of middle America. The Lion, who was once part of the Omaha Circus, comes to Oz with the Wizard and starts on an adventure to stop the witch from obtaining the Flower of Oz. As new friends and strange characters look to him for his courage, Lion could loose exactly what it is that makes him so brave. Based upon the book by Roger S. Baum (Great-Grandson of Oz L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books). Written by Max Vaughn
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-26
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Blood & Guts
Overview: A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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The Harness
Overview: A gentle John Steinbeck tale from 1938 about a farmer who is dominated by his ailing wife until a free-minded young woman turns up at his ranch with her eight-year-old son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-12
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Stuck with Each Other
Overview: When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the criminal owners of the money.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-17
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While Justice Sleeps
Overview: After the death of her husband, Jody and her daughter Samantha return to her home town. Sometimes she leaves Samantha with her old friend Winn. Only after an accident a doctor discovers that she has been abused - apparently by Winn! Jody reports immediately to the police and tries everything to avoid complications. But when it turns out that Winn still might win the case by some procedural tricks, she commits an act of desperation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-05
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Twilight of Honor
Overview: A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of a murder that he has already confessed to. He asks his mentor, a retired, legendary lawyer for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-03
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The Undefeated
Overview: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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Silver Streak
Overview: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Brock's Last Case
Overview: A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-05
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Between Friends
Overview: An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Overview: Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Devil Times Five
Overview: Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-31
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Niagara
Overview: Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-26
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Blood River
Overview: Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's vengeance, he goes to ground in the mountains and meets Winston Patrick Culler, an old trapper, who becomes his traveling companion and protector. Jimmy doesn't understand though why Culler is helping him...
Genres: Western Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-17
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Madigan
Overview: NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While they follow various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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The Stalking Moon
Overview: While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-25
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Beg, Borrow...or Steal
Overview: A museum heist with an unusual twist: the three thieves are all physically disabled. The men, one confined to a wheelchair, one with prosthetic hands, and one blind, plan to steal a valuable statue. The men use teamwork and ingenuity to beat the high-tech security and get in and out with the statue. However, their plan is not foolproof, as a museum guard recognizes their M.O. and pays them a visit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-20
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own
Overview: Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-25
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The Glory Guys
Overview: Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of recruits that could take place in any time period.
Genres: Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story
Overview: Marine Private First Class Robert Garwood spent fourteen harrowing years as a Vietnam P.O.W. only to finally be released and immediately arrested by the U.S. Marine Corps on charges of collaboration with the enemy. He is found guilty on the strength of the testimony from those P.O.W.s he tried to take care of so many years before and is branded a traitor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-28
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Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety
Overview: This hilarious short animation offers over 40 safety tips for homes with infants and young children. The film's hero is a very earnest, somewhat pompous, but endearing dog called Wally. A "professional" in home safety, Wally is assigned to a house with an infant whose parents have little safety consciousness. Accidents and near-accidents succeed each other with lightning speed, constantly putting Wally to the test.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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Side Roads
Overview: Joe Velasco is awarded parole for good behavior, promising to live life as a reformed man and avoid the underworld activities which landed him in jail. But almost immediately following his release, a series of occurrences begin to steer him back towards the road to ruin.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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