Dana Elcar
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Elcar, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ferndale, Michigan United States
Birthday: October 10, 1927
Deathday: June 06, 2005
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Gender: Male
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2010
Overview: While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-06
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The Borgia Stick
Overview: A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Catch-22
Overview: Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has to endure the bureaucratic SNAFUs of group leaders and the insane antics of other 256th Squadron members. Failed television pilot for a sitcom adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical black comedy novel Catch-22.
Genres: Comedy War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-21
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Murder in Three Acts
Overview: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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A Lovely Way to Die
Overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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The Sting
Overview: A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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The Boston Strangler
Overview: Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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The Nude Bomb
Overview: When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-09
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Breach of Contract
Overview: A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their own good, and, true to the film's title, their verbal "contract" is shattered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Overview: The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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The Fool Killer
Overview: After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
Overview: The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-24
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Soldier Blue
Overview: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Report to the Commissioner
Overview: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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The Day the Bubble Burst
Overview: A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-07
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St. Ives
Overview: A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-02-24
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The Whole World Is Watching
Overview: In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a student protest movement charged with the murder of a campus policeman. The problem is that the student, and his supporters, may be more interested in making a statement about their grievances than about his acquittal.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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W.C. Fields and Me
Overview: In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Condorman
Overview: Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-02
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion goes wrong and the girl dies. To protect his career, Cheever implicates Captain Dennison whose life is thereby ruined. Years later, the Captain's now grown-up sister Katherine marries Army Major Alex Breen, and is stunned to learn his commanding officer is the now Colonel Cheever. She becomes obsessed with getting revenge for the sake of her dead brother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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A Gunfight
Overview: Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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Inside Out
Overview: An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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Zig Zag
Overview: A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Dying Room Only
Overview: A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Jungle Warriors
Overview: A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Death Penalty
Overview: A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers in a playground rumble.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-22
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Quarterback Princess
Overview: The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-03
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Overview: Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-28
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Overview: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Mark, I Love You
Overview: A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Overview: Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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The Death of Me Yet
Overview: The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-26
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Burning Bright
Overview: In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-26
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Crisis in Mid-Air
Overview: The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-13
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Heatwave!
Overview: A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-27
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Deadlock
Overview: The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Senior Year
Overview: Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-22
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The Flying Misfits
Overview: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-21
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The Learning Tree
Overview: The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-06
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Baby Blue Marine
Overview: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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Buddy Buddy
Overview: During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Blue Skies Again
Overview: A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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San Francisco International
Overview: This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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The D.A.: Murder One
Overview: A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-08
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There Were Times, Dear
Overview: Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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The Champ
Overview: Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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Law of the Land
Overview: A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
Genres: Crime Western TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-04-29
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Fail Safe
Overview: Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Genres: Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-07
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The Maltese Bippy
Overview: A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-18
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Forbidden Love
Overview: A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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The Bravos
Overview: The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-09
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Adam at Six A.M.
Overview: A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Pendulum
Overview: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-14
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Samurai
Overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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The Sound of Anger
Overview: Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-10
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Help Wanted: Male
Overview: An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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All of Me
Overview: Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Panic on the 5:22
Overview: Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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Fireball Forward
Overview: A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-05
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Big Deal in Laredo
Overview: A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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I Want to Live
Overview: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-09
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Toughlove
Overview: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Inspector Perez
Overview: Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-08
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The Crucible
Overview: Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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Elizabeth the Queen
Overview: In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-31
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