Robert Shayne
Also Known As: Robert Shaen Dawe, Robert Shane, Bob Shayne
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Shayne (October 4, 1900 – November 29, 1992), born Robert Shaen Dawe, was an American actor whose career lasted for over 60 years. He was best known for portraying Inspector Bill Henderson in the American television series Adventures of Superman. Shayne became an actor after having worked as a reporter at the Illustrated Daily Tab in Miami, Florida. His initial acting experience came with repertory companies in Alabama, including the Birmingham Players. Shayne's first Broadway appearance came by 1931 in The Rap. His other Broadway shows include Yellow Jack (1934), The Cat and the Canary (1935), Whiteoaks (1938), with Ethel Barrymore, and Without Love (1942), with Katharine Hepburn. Shayne began his film career in 1934, appearing in two features. In 1942, he became a contract actor with Warner Bros.. He played many character roles in movies and television, including a film series of Warner Bros. featurettes called the "Santa Fe Trail" series such as Wagon Wheels West, and as a mad scientist in the 1953 horror film The Neanderthal Man. He appears briefly in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, seated at a booth in a hotel bar, where his character meets Cary Grant's character, just as the latter is about to be kidnapped. He also had a small but pivotal role in the 1953 sci-fi classic Invaders From Mars as a scientist. He also enjoyed a brief rebirth in his career when he was cast as the blind newspaper vendor in The Flash television show. He was by this time actually blind and learned his lines by having his wife read them to him and then rehearse until he memorized them. Shayne portrayed Police Inspector William "Bill" Henderson on the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. He appeared sporadically in the early episodes of the series, in part because he came under HUAC scrutiny and was briefly blacklisted on unproven and unspecific charges of association with Communism. As the program evolved, especially in the color episodes, he was brought into more and more of them, to the point where he was a regular on the series.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 04, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 29, 1992
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The Ring
Overview: A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Without Warning!
Overview: Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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Nobody Lives Forever
Overview: A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Christmas in Connecticut
Overview: While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-27
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Three Strangers
Overview: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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The Neanderthal Man
Overview: A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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The Giant Claw
Overview: Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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The Naked Monster
Overview: Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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Double Jeopardy
Overview: Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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Experiment Alcatraz
Overview: A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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Murder Is My Beat
Overview: Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-27
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War of the Satellites
Overview: An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Mr. Skeffington
Overview: A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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From the Terrace
Overview: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-15
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Backlash
Overview: In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Criminal Lawyer
Overview: A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-23
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Missing Women
Overview: A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Footsteps in the Night
Overview: Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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Indestructible Man
Overview: A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-24
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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The Threat
Overview: A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Cage of Evil
Overview: While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her boyfriend and make off with her and the loot, they start down a treacherous path full of dark surprises.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Make Your Own Bed
Overview: Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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I, Mobster
Overview: The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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The Face of Marble
Overview: The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death. Aided by assistant David Cochran, Charles conducts experiments that have horrifying side effects. Charles's lonely wife, Elaine, is frightened by his work, and in order to protect her, housekeeper Maria unleashes a torrent of voodoo that wrecks havoc.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-19
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Eyes of the Jungle
Overview: Ramar of the Jungle encounters a holy man who warns him of great danger. His friend Professor Howard is near death, cursed by the Mark of Shitan. A sacred golden tablet and a woman ready for sacrifice holds the key to Howard's survival. A feature film made from three episodes "Ramar of the Jungle" television series stitched together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Wife Wanted
Overview: Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-02
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Federal Man
Overview: A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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The Gentleman Tramp
Overview: A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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Welcome Stranger
Overview: Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-13
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Customs Agent
Overview: An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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I Won't Play
Overview: In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-11
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Behind the Mask
Overview: Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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The Blue Gardenia
Overview: Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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I Cover Big Town
Overview: One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-27
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20,000 Eyes
Overview: An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Hot Shots
Overview: Sach and the gang baby-sit a bratty TV star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Wednesday's Child
Overview: A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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King of the Carnival
Overview: Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-27
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Prince of Pirates
Overview: In a 16th century kingdom in the Netherlands, the newly crowned King Stephan concludes a secret treaty with the Spanish. This puts him at odds with his younger brother, Prince Roland, who favors a treaty with the French. Stephan orders Roland imprisoned but Roland escapes and leads a revolt.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-07
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Mr. Walkie Talkie
Overview: Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Dynamite Pass
Overview: A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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Valley of the Redwoods
Overview: Wayne, Jan, and Dino try pulling off a heist of a lumber company's payroll, and everything seems to go wrong right from the beginning, in spite of Dino's expertise. The trio take off for the woods in Canada with Wayne suffering from a wound and the law in hot pursuit. To complicate matters slightly there is a romantic tie-up with Jan, someone too tough and efficient to be easily won over.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-08
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Rumble on the Docks
Overview: A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Let's Live a Little
Overview: A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-09
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The Rebel Set
Overview: Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-28
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The Spirit of West Point
Overview: The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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Keep 'Em Rolling
Overview: World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Flight Nurse
Overview: In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Shine on Harvest Moon
Overview: Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-10
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The Swordsman
Overview: Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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I Ring Doorbells
Overview: Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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Wagon Wheels West
Overview: In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-30
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Death in Small Doses
Overview: A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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Frontier Days
Overview: U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-08
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Behind Southern Lines
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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State Penitentiary
Overview: A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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North by Northwest
Overview: Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Kronos
Overview: Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy directed at it in an effort to destroy it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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The Desperado
Overview: "Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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San Antonio
Overview: Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-29
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Rider from Tucson
Overview: In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-07
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A Tiger Walks
Overview: A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Best Man Wins
Overview: Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-06
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Overview: Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-07
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Gun to Gun
Overview: Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle. Steve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out. Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-08
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Spook Chasers
Overview: Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-02
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The Dakota Kid
Overview: Dakota Kid is a young outlaw who joins a gang headed by Ace Crandall. Crandall's aim is to unseat Sheriff Tom White and then use his power to enrich himself at the community's expense. Dakota impersonates a long-lost nephew of the sheriff, and is made a marshal. Through his association with the sheriff's grandson, Red White and his friend Judy, plus falling in love with Mary Lewis, the Kid gradually reforms.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-01
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When You're Smiling
Overview: When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music business. Durham not only ends up with a recording contract, but also wins heroine Peggy Martin (Lola Albright) in the bargain. So much for the story. The principal selling card of When You're Smiling consists of the guest-star turns by Frankie Laine, Bob Crosby, The Modernaires, The Mills Brothers, Kay Starr and Billy Daniels.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Runaway Girl
Overview: Vineyard owner Randy Minola becomes captivated by the worldly Edella, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend Winnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-10
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Indian Uprising
Overview: It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches. But there are those in Tucson that want the miners back looking for gold and they put pressure on officials in Washington. Soon a new commander arrives, the troops are recalled, and the miners go after gold. Whites then kill a miner with an arrow so they can attack the Indians hoping the troops wipe them out when they retaliate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-02
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Loaded Pistols
Overview: A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-15
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Overview: Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason. But Rocky eventually suspects Mason and when Bill Anderson informs him the agent is a fake, they head out after Mason
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Invaders from Mars
Overview: In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Why Must I Die
Overview: A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Teenage Cave Man
Overview: Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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The Specialist
Overview: Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's efforts to exploit a local lake.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Overview: A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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Forgotten Women
Overview: A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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The Inside Story
Overview: A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by mistake and solves a number of financial problems before it is returned.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-14
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The Million Dollar Duck
Overview: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-30
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Oklahoma Outlaws
Overview: In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-14
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Law of the Badlands
Overview: A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-14
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Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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Roaring Guns
Overview: Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-19
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Big Timber
Overview: A young man goes to work in a logging camp to fulfill a boyhood ambition and a jealous loggers rigs things to make him appear to be an incompetent bungler. But he proves himself successfully conveying an injured workman to the hospital in a careening truck, whose brakes have been tampered with, down a mountainside.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-10
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Hollywood Canteen
Overview: Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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How to Make a Monster
Overview: When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Trader Tom of the China Seas
Overview: In this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort to prevent the natives from starting a revolution in Burmatra and its neighbors.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-06
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Overview: Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back. Toby resigns himself to circus life, but when he finally realizes that Tupper lied to him, and that his aunt and uncle truly love him, Toby happily returns home once again.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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Trial by Trigger
Overview: California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-27
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Dance with Me, Henry
Overview: Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with the DA, but winds up framed for murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-17
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Winning
Overview: Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Son of Flubber
Overview: Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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Superman and Scotland Yard
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episodes #34 ("A Ghost for Scotland Yard"), #49 ("Lady in Black"), and #38 ("Panic in the Sky").
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-11
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Superman Flies Again
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of the "Adventures of Superman" TV show: episodes #30 ("Jet Ace"), #35 ("The Dog Who Knew Superman"), and #42 ("The Clown Who Cried").
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Superman and the Jungle Devil
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episodes #39 ("Machine That Could Plot Crimes"), #40 ("Jungle Devil"), and #31 ("Shot in the Dark").
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Superman in Exile
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #33 ("Superman in Exile"), 36 ("The Face and the Voice"), and #51 ("The Whistling Bird").
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Superman's Peril
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vulture"), #44 ("The Semi-Private Eye"), and #32 ("The Defeat of Superman").
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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