Eddie Parker
Also Known As: Eddy Parker, Edwin Parker, Ed Parker, Edwin "Eddie" Parker
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddie Parker (December 12, 1900 – January 20, 1960) was an American stuntman and actor who appeared in many classic films, mostly westerns and horror films. Some of his more famous films and serials include the 1943 "Batman" (as Lewis Wilson's stunt double), The Crimson Ghost, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (as the Mummy), and Rear Window for Alfred Hitchcock as well as many classic Universal horror films. He appeared three times in the early television series, Tales of the Texas Rangers, and also performed stunts for that program. Parker died of a heart attack in 1960.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Birthday: December 12, 1900
Deathday: January 20, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sakima and the Masked Marvel
Overview: Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Lucky Texan
Overview: Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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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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The Trail Beyond
Overview: Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Invisible Agent
Overview: The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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The Mole People
Overview: A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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A Man Betrayed
Overview: Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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The Lost Trail
Overview: Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the stagecoach line is pretty Jane Burns (Jennifer Holt).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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The Power of the Whistler
Overview: A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-19
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God's Country and the Man
Overview: Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Silver Range
Overview: Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram, which co-stars perennial old-timer Raymond Hatton as a retired U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a rancher. As the two old friends soon learn, a gang of smugglers headed by the town's banker (Frank LaRue) needs the use of the Flying Arrow Ranch for their nefarious purposes.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
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The Strange Door
Overview: The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-21
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Chick Carter, Detective
Overview: Detective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin (Julie Gibson), a singer at the Century Club, reports the robbery of the famous Blue Diamond, owned by Joe Carney (Charles King), the owner of the nightclub.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-11
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Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
Overview: Crooks discover a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border but the treasure is hidden somewhere on land. In their efforts to find the hidden treasure they resort to murder and sabotage to stop the construction of the Alcan highway which will bring homesteaders to the area. Sergeant Royal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police battles through 12 episodes to find the crooks and to learn the identity of their mysterious leader known only as 'The Boss'.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Overview: An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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The Inner Circle
Overview: A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-07
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Law and Order
Overview: Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-13
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Brave Warrior
Overview: In Indiana of the early 1800s, conflict once again arises between the United States and Great Britain over territory and boundaries. Each side endeavors to gain the support of the Shawnee Indian tribes in the area. Governor William Henry Harrison enlists the aid of Steve Rubbell, whose friendship with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh goes back to childhood. Tecumseh's leadership of the Shawnee is contested by his brother, known as The Prophet, who sides with the British. Tecumseh, who grew up as a childhood playmate of Steve and of Laura McGregor, loves Steve as a brother and hopes to marry Laura. But Laura is in love with Steve. Laura's father, Shayne McGregor, secretly leads local support of the British against the Americans, even though it risks the life and love of his daughter. Everything comes to a head at the battle of Tippecanoe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-31
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The Shadow Gang
Overview: A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'The Star Packer' down to a 22 minute short version. John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Curse of the Undead
Overview: A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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The Courageous Avenger
Overview: Kirk Baxter has been sent to investigate murder and robbery involving gold shipments. Identifying a gang member by his bullets, he uses that man's horse to locate and join the gang. He learns the gang is tipped off to the shipments by a mine employee using carrier pigeons. But the next message reveals his true identity and he is made a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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Rainbow Valley
Overview: John Martin is a government agent working under cover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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The Texas Rangers
Overview: It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-03
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The Monster and the Ape
Overview: A famous scientist invents a humanoid robot (the titular "monster"), so a greedy rival scientist plans to steal it for use in his criminal plans. His henchmen often kidnap a trained gorilla (the titular "ape") from the zoo, to aid in the schemes.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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The Masked Marvel
Overview: A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-06
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Congo Bill
Overview: Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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Jesse James Rides Again
Overview: Jesse James wants to start a new life in a new location, but quickly finds himself wrapped-up in protecting townsfolk from the machinations of evil oilmen.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-02
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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King of the Forest Rangers
Overview: An Indian rug is the key to the location of a lost treasure. When the rug's owner is murdered, it becomes a case for Forest Ranger Steve King
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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The Hawk of Powder River
Overview: B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Carlson) who's been targeted for murder by a notorious bandit known as "The Hawk".
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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Darkest Africa
Overview: A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Louisa
Overview: Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Overview: Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Overview: Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-05
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Radio Patrol
Overview: About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-03
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Overview: Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Overview: A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-02
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The New Frontier
Overview: In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Inside Detroit
Overview: Gus Linden, former racketeer head of a Detroit local of the United Automobile Workers of America, A.F.L, attempts to destroy his successor, Blair Vicker, so he can put his old rackets back into the auto factories. Vickers fights him off, ultimately winning help from Linden's attractive daughter Barbara and from Joni Calvin, Vickers' moll.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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One Touch of Venus
Overview: A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-01
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Buck Rogers
Overview: Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-10
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Mandrake the Magician
Overview: Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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Wings of the Navy
Overview: Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-11
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Indianapolis Speedway
Overview: A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-05
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The Call of the Savage
Overview: Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Danger Flight
Overview: Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-01
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Missing Evidence
Overview: G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Overview: Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-09
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The Ghost Rider
Overview: Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He kills two of them leaving an ace as his calling card. Bull remembers the deck of cards that fell when he fought Dave had no aces and the Rascob's set out after him. Trapped in a cabin, Dave receives unexpected help from Bullard.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-07
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Trigger Fingers
Overview: Blacksmith Pinto Peters calls on his old friend, Sam "Hurricane" Benton, to help him clear his son, Jimmy, of a murder charge. Hot-headed Jimmy, believes that the best way to cure a man of cheating at cards is to shoot him. He didn't shoot him enough, as the gambler only feigns death as part of a plot to gain possession of land owned by Pinto, as they know there is gold on the land buried there by an outlaw gang years ago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Heart of the North
Overview: A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-10
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Overview: A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Valley of Fear
Overview: Johnny Williams (Johnny Mack Brown) returns to his home town of Beaufort, and finds himself when being chased by banker Henry Stevens (Tristram Coffin), Grangers Association head Les Travers (Ed Cassidy as Edward Cassidy) and real estate agent Frank Wilkins (Ted Adams.)
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-14
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Whirlwind Raiders
Overview: It's 1873 and the disbanded Texas Rangers have been replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police. Steve Lanning arrives posing as a wanted outlaw to get in with them in his attempt to have them replaced. His inside work helps the Durango Kid break up the State Police raids but he is in trouble when his secret identity as Durango becomes known to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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The Adventures of Don Coyote
Overview: Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-09
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Overview: Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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Pillow Talk
Overview: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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The Good Humor Man
Overview: Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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High School Narc
Overview: 22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-04
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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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Monster on the Campus
Overview: A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Pistol Packin' Mama
Overview: Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters oust a gambler from the Big Apple. In need of quick cash, he goes to Las Vegas and enters a casino owned by a tough but pretty young woman. Cheating like crazy, the gambler breaks the house back and takes his considerable winnings back to New York to open his own casino. The woman is in hot pursuit and eagerly plans to turn the tables in her favor.
Genres: Music Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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When the Daltons Rode
Overview: Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Crime by Night
Overview: A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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Battle Cry
Overview: The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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Winners of the West
Overview: Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-02
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Shadow Valley
Overview: At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters. This time, the star plays as U.S. marshal who comes to the rescue of the standard damsel in distress (Jennifer Holt, sister of Tim and daughter of Jack). The double-dyed villain (George Cheseboro) is a crooked lawyer (and former train robber) who wants to lay claim to the heroine's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-29
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The Hawk of Wild River
Overview: Steve Martin is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk and his outlaw gang. The Hawk attempts to murder Sheriff Jack Mahoney and is captured and jailed. Steve helps the Hawk break jail and thus makes contact with the bandit gang. He sends a bungling photographer, Smiley Burnette, to warn the sheriff that the gang plan to rob the express office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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Claim Jumpers
Overview: Claim jumpers originally released as Lucky Texan in 1934 by Monogram Pictures Corp
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Northwest Passage
Overview: Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Genres: Adventure History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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'Til We Meet Again
Overview: Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Sky Murder
Overview: This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Sea Raiders
Overview: A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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Junior G-Men
Overview: A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Overview: A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-03
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The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Flame of Barbary Coast
Overview: Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Overview: A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-27
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Over-Exposed
Overview: This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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The Tioga Kid
Overview: Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into Joe Morino and his gang of rustlers at the same time Tioga arrives to cut himself into Morino's game. But Morino doesn't give in and in the showdown, Eddie and the Kid find themselves on the same side.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-17
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The Star Packer
Overview: John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-30
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Mug Town
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Frontier Feud
Overview: Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada and his grizzled sidekick Sandy (Raymond Hatton) are US marshals posing as drifters. Rancher Joe (Dennis Moore) is accused of a series of murders, but Nevada and Sandy manage to prove that another man is the guilty party.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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Days of Buffalo Bill
Overview: In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that he killed his opponent. He is so wracked with guilt that he travels to the ranch of the dead man's sister, gives himself a new name and begins helping her. Rustlers come; he stops them. Trouble ensues after she learns his true identity. A scuffle ensues. She wings him with a gun; he disarms her. Later she hears the real murderer bragging about his crime during a fight with the hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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Daughter of Don Q
Overview: When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate to the heirs of Don Quantero, he employs Mel Donovan and his killer henchmen to murder them all. That will leave Manning as the sole heir to millions. However, Delores Quantero tumbles to this plot and enlists the aide of two-fisted reporter, Cliff Roberts to save all her relatives
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-27
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Raiders of the South
Overview: Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the reconstruction years to obtain evidence against a gang of raiders who have been making life difficult for the local carpet-baggers. He saves the life of Shorty Kendall, an unreconstructed rebel about to be hanged, and this wins him the gratitude of Belle Chambers, a widow whose husband was killed in the Civil War who hates all Yankees with a fever.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-18
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Trailing Danger
Overview: Convicted killer Jim Holden is rescued from the sheriff by his gang, led by Mason and Riley. He is out to get the Hathaway Stage superintendent George Bannister, who was responsible for his conviction and learns the Bannister, his niece (Kay) and Hal Hathaway, son of the stage line owner, are on a cross-country stage. Johnny, a rancher, and Waco, local stage representative head for the stage to warn the passengers, including entertainer Paradise Flo and coffin salesman Pennypacker. Hal takes the stage into Holdin. Johnny and Waco rescue Hal and Bannister before the gang succeeds in hanging the pair.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West
Overview: Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-22
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Son of Zorro
Overview: A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-18
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Law of the West
Overview: With the railroad coming, Nixon is after the ranchers land. Using a stooge land agent, his method is to claim the person they bought their ranches from never had title to the land and their deeds are worthless. Fereral Agent Johnny Mack arrives posing as a gunman. He is quickly onto the henchman and Land Agent and eventually suspects Nixon is the big boss. But he needs the help of ventriloquist Alibi to bring them in.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-20
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Range Justice
Overview: Johnny Mack goes to work on "Ma" Curtis' ranch, to the disapproval of his friends, rancher Glenn Hadley and his sister Beth, who are at odds with her. Secretly, Ma's foreman Stoner is plotting with real estate man Ed Dutton to ruin her ranch and acquire it cheaply, with controlling water rights. Johnny stops henchman Dade in an attempt to dynamite the barn and Stoner, supposedly taking him to the sheriff, kills him. Johnny stops Glenn and Beth from tearing down a Curtis fence in order to get their cattle to water, but Glenn refuses to help even after Johnny explains he is helping Ma in order to find out who is behind the attacks on both ranches. Ma pretends to fire Johnny for saving Glenn from an ambush. As the outlaws attempt to rustle Ma's remaining cattle, Johnny, Alibi and Glenn join forces.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-16
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The Fighting Ranger
Overview: A Texas Ranger and his partner gallop after a band of desperadoes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-15
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The Lone Star Trail
Overview: Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-06
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They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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The Spoilers
Overview: In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Flying Wild
Overview: A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-10
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The Spy Ring
Overview: Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Obliging Young Lady
Overview: A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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All Ashore
Overview: Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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All Ashore
Overview: Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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The Invisible Monster
Overview: Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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Scouts to the Rescue
Overview: Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-17
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Tarantula
Overview: A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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State Police
Overview: The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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King of the Rocket Men
Overview: Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-08
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Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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Imitation of Life
Overview: In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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If You Could Only Cook
Overview: An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Convicted
Overview: A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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My Six Convicts
Overview: A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Hit the Ice
Overview: After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old friend and his band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-02
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Adventures of Rusty
Overview: Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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The Phantom Speaks
Overview: The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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The Flame and the Arrow
Overview: Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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Escape in the Fog
Overview: A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-05
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Joe Smith, American
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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Black Hills
Overview: When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby's robbery attempt, Kirby forces the assistant land agent Tuttle to sell the ranch to him. But Eddie learns of the forgery thru Tuttle's boss and goes after Kirby.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-26
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The Racket
Overview: The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Overview: An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-24
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Rear Window
Overview: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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Bruce Gentry
Overview: Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be directed at moving or stationary targets. The disc was master-minded by an enemy agent known only as "The Recorder" because...he speaks entirely via recordings. Aided by rancher Frank Farrell and his sister Juanita "Nita" Hodges, Gentry consistently foils "The Recorders" schemes, which are carried out by "The Recorder's" henchmen, Krendon, Allen and Chandler, including an attack on the Panama Canal.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-10
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Jack Armstrong
Overview: 15 episode serial where Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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Cobra Woman
Overview: A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-12
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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The Lawless Frontier
Overview: Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill Dusty and kidnap Ruby. Saving the two, he goes after Zanti. He catches him but Zanti escapes the Sheriff's handcuff's and this time Tobin has to chase him into the desert.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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Horizons West
Overview: Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-11
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Mule Train
Overview: A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a job for a singing marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
Overview: Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment which he has just rescued from a stagecoach that had been held up by Blaze Talbot and Reno
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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The Man from the Alamo
Overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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Bat Men of Africa
Overview: Re-edited feature film version of the 1936 serial Darkest Africa.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Professional Soldier
Overview: Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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