Hugh O'Brian
Also Known As: Hugh Charles Krampe, Hugh O'Brien
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973), as well as films including the Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1965); he also had a notable supporting role in John Wayne's last film, The Shootist (1976). He was highly regarded for creating the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, a non-profit youth leadership development program, founded in 1958, for high school scholars.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Birthday: April 19, 1925
Deathday: September 05, 2016
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Gender: Male
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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Love Has Many Faces
Overview: A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-24
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There's No Business Like Show Business
Overview: Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Overview: Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Twins
Overview: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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The Shootist
Overview: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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Cruise Into Terror
Overview: An Egyptian sarcophagus that is cargo on a pleasure cruise ship has a secret - it contains the son of Satan, and its effects start to make the ship's passengers behave strangely.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Broken Lance
Overview: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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The Cimarron Kid
Overview: Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-13
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Vengeance Valley
Overview: A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-14
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Rocketship X-M
Overview: Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determined that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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Seminole
Overview: Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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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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Bruce Lee: The Legend
Overview: The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
Overview: A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Killer Force
Overview: Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl, daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine. Nelson, the mine administrator, gives Bradley a curious mission - to steal a diamond. He wants to implicate Bradley in order to bring him into contact with a certain Lewis who is preparing to rob the mine with the aid of a group of mercanaries and a local accessory known as Father Christmas. Webb, not being informed of the deceit, relentlessly pursues Bradley, who is contacted by Lewis. With the mercanaries in the process of penetrating the mine. Bradley reveals himself to be Father Christmas, the organiser of the entire operation...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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Fantasy Island
Overview: Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago, a big-game hunter who, for once, wants to be the hunted and a wealthy businesswoman who wants to be a secret and silent observer at her own funeral.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-14
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Ambush Bay
Overview: A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-10
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Never Fear
Overview: A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-04
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The Lawless Breed
Overview: After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-28
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Drums Across the River
Overview: When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Murder on Flight 502
Overview: On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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The Fiend Who Walked The West
Overview: Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Sally and Saint Anne
Overview: An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Come Fly with Me
Overview: Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Cave of Outlaws
Overview: Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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The Brass Legend
Overview: During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Little Big Horn
Overview: Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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Saskatchewan
Overview: Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-30
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Wild Women
Overview: Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-20
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The Red Ball Express
Overview: August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Back to God's Country
Overview: In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his wife Dolores and a boatload of precious hides.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
Overview: A new parson arrives in the mining town of Lodestone and attempts to build a church. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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Probe
Overview: That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and sound of his surroundings. It's also a scanner, detecting telltale changes in pulse or other biometric readings of himself and the people around him. This ring and more electronic devices -- some embedded -- keep Lockwood linked with Probe Control, where experts and banks of computers provide instant mission-critical warnings, intel, even language translations. In this pilot film for the short-lived series "Search," Lockwood is on a quest to recover priceless diamonds stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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On the Loose
Overview: After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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D.O.A.
Overview: Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Africa: Texas Style!
Overview: Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in Africa starring Chuck Connors.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Beyond the Purple Hills
Overview: Gene Autry becomes the new Sheriff after bank robbers kill the former sheriff. When Judge Beaumont is murdered, evidence points to the judge's wild son. Believing the young man, Gene tries to help.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-25
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Strategy of Terror
Overview: A reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader. Film was a re-edit of two Kraft Suspense Theatre episodes.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
Overview: Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of a top entertainer in this pilot for a series that never materialized.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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The Raiders
Overview: A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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The Return of Jesse James
Overview: Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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The Battle at Apache Pass
Overview: Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader Cochise. Colton is undermined by corrupt and politically ambitious Indian agent Neil Baylor who sets up a false attack, and the abduction of a local farmer's son. While Colton is away investigating the matter, Baylor convinces Lieutenant Bascom that Cochise's band is to blame, and incites him to lead an expedition against the Apache band to return the boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
Overview: Documentary on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, with a focus on the production of his unfinished film Game of Death. Using interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, Lee aficionado John Little paints a portrait of the world's most famous action hero, concluding with a new cut of Game of Death's action finale, reconstructed from Lee's notes and recently-recovered footage.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-22
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Overview: Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Overview: A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-13
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Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Overview: Combining colorized footage from the television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) with new scenes shot in Tombstone, Arizona, this film shows the return of the legendary former Marshal Wyatt Earp to his old stomping grounds. He visits old friends, teaches bad guys some manners and reveals secrets about his early life.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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The Stand at Apache River
Overview: Sheriff Lane Dakota captures robbery-murder suspect Greiner just as the latter is wounded in an Apache ambush. At remote outpost Apache River, Lane and his prisoner spend the night with other travelers, including 2 women with a surprising number of fancy dresses. In the morning, who should appear but a band of ostensibly peaceful Apaches strayed from the reservation. And bigoted Colonel Morsby is strongly inclined to shoot first and ask questions afterward...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-01
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Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Sam White returns home to his ranch in the Texas ranch -The Panhandle - to find it in the hands of a gang of outlaws
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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White Feather
Overview: The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-16
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-02
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Game of Death
Overview: A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-23
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Fighting Coast Guard
Overview: Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Dial M for Murder
Overview: A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Harpy
Overview: Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a hobby, he enjoys training a rare harpy eagle, with a Native-American pal, who empathizes with his plight, and a plan of action coalesces.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Gunsmoke: The Last Apache
Overview: James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton (Kiley). Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Alias Jesse James
Overview: Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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The Seekers
Overview: This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
Overview: Documentary short about the making of John Wayne's final movie, the 1976 film The Shootist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-24
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Assassination in Rome
Overview: In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-07
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Meet Me at the Fair
Overview: In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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Doin' Time on Planet Earth
Overview: Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Moby Dick
Overview: The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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