Guy Madison
Also Known As: Гай Мэдисон , Robert Ozell Moseley
Biography: Handsome American leading man Guy Madison stumbled into a film career and became a television star and hero to the Baby Boom generation. As a young man he worked as a telephone lineman, but entered the Coast Guard at the beginning of the Second World War. While on liberty one weekend in Hollywood, he attended a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast and was spotted in the audience by an assistant to Henry Willson, an executive for David O. Selznick. Selznick wanted an unknown sailor to play a small but prominent part in Since You Went Away (1944), and promptly signed Robert Moseley to a contract. Selznick and Willson concocted the screen name Guy Madison (the "guy" girls would like to meet, and Madison from a passing Dolly Madison cake wagon). Madison filmed his one scene on a weekend pass and returned to duty. The film's release brought thousands of fan letters for Madison's lonely, strikingly handsome young sailor, and at war's end he returned to find himself a star-in-the-making. Despite an initial amateurishness to his acting, Madison grew as a performer, studying and working in theatre. He played leads in a series of programmers before being cast as legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok in the TV series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951). He played Hickok on TV and radio for much of the 1950s, and many of the TV episodes were strung together and released as feature films. Madison managed to squeeze in some more adult-oriented roles during his off-time from the series, but much of this work was also in westerns. After the Hickok series ended Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe, where he became a popular star of Italian westerns and German adventure films. In the 1970s he returned to the U.S., but appeared mainly in cameo roles. Physical ailments limited his work in later years, and he died from emphysema in 1996. His first wife was actress Gail Russell. Date of Birth 19 January 1922, Pumpkin Center, California Date of Death 6 February 1996, Palm Springs, California (emphysema)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pumpkin Center, California, USA
Birthday: January 19, 1922
Deathday: February 06, 1996
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Gender: Male
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The Last Frontier
Overview: Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Where's Willie?
Overview: An 8-year old boy invents a hand-held computer which can control any electronic device, and uses it to affect the entire town where he lives.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-12
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Old Shatterhand
Overview: Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-04-30
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Since You Went Away
Overview: In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-30
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5 Against the House
Overview: Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-10
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Legacy of the Incas
Overview: During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Overview: Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
Genres: Documentary Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-05
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This Man Can't Die
Overview: An undercover government agent sets out for revenge upon those responsible for the murder of his parents and the assault of his sister.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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Five for Revenge
Overview: Jim Latimore's ranch is a thorn in the side of the ruthless Gonzales brothers and his marriage to their cousin Rosaria rankles even more. Bandit chief El Matanza is hired to rid them of Latimore and his baby son is taken to be raised as a Gonzales. Three years later five of Latimore's friends arrive to reclaim the boy, replace Rosaria in her home and avenge their murdered compadre.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Reverend's Colt
Overview: Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him for the robbery. The sheriff saves him from lynching by putting him in jail. Then he asks the priest to find the gang and the booty; thus Miller becomes the Reverend Colt. His exceptional skill means that he can shoot hats off people's heads and their pistols from their pockets, but he never kills.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-24
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Son of Django
Overview: The son of Django searches for the murderer of his father and is thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by former acquaintances of his famous parent.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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Women of Devil's Island
Overview: Italian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island where they must wade through alligator-infested waters and find gold. Life on the island is tough for these buxom, beautifully-swept coiffed maidens - virtually none who look like they had even the slightest knowledge of crimes worthy of such a punishment. Here, if the girls want to get a day of rest they must work the night with the guards and/or warden of the island, but some changes come when Guy Madison arrives as the new warden out to change the horrible lives led by these playmate-wannabes.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-07-27
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Till the End of Time
Overview: Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-23
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Overview: An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Genres: Western Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Bullwhip
Overview: In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-25
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The Command
Overview: Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-13
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Jet Over The Atlantic
Overview: Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready, Brett Halsey, Anna Lee and Mary Anderson.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Drums in the Deep South
Overview: Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Payment in Blood
Overview: Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart Byrnes. Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard's strongbox, and so Chamaco takes him to Blake's camp. After a sort of initiation by the gang, Stuart leads Blake's men back across the border to Durango to retrieve the gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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The War Devils
Overview: A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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The Bang-Bang Kid
Overview: Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times. The film goes off in too many directions, but generally delivers the goods laugh-wise. (Source: SWDB)
Genres: Adventure Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-14
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Hilda Crane
Overview: After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Overview: Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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The Hard Man
Overview: A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Gentlemen of the Night
Overview: Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-10
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Reprisal!
Overview: New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Return of Sandokan
Overview: Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lord of Malaya. Assisted by his European friend Iannis, he wants to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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Blood of the Executioner
Overview: Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is in league with murderous pirates.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-19
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The Charge at Feather River
Overview: A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-11
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On the Threshold of Space
Overview: In the early stages of the space program, Capt. Jim Hollenbeck undergoes any experiment needed to ensure success in the new Air Force branch -- even though he's not required to be a subject in the tests. Always remaining a constant source of support, his wife, Pat, accepts his unwavering commitment to scientific progress. When Maj. Ward Thomas becomes the new head of the program, Hollenbeck must convince him of the necessity of taking the extra steps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-29
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Overview: Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-16
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Adventurer of Tortuga
Overview: In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-12
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Honeymoon
Overview: A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-17
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The Battle of the Last Panzer
Overview: The Allied D-Day invasion is a success, and German forces begin leave Normandy. After an ambush takes out a set of Panzer tanks led by German Lt. Hunter, he finds himself alone with his unit in what may be the last Panzer that's still operational. While traveling through the French countryside, Cooper meets Jeanette, a woman who offers to lead the troops back to Germany, but his feelings for her get in the way of his survival instincts.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-23
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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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Sword of the Conqueror
Overview: Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, which he believes will be beneficial to him, only to have Alboino kill him and leave Amalchi, his daughter's real love, beaten and left for dead. Amalchi recovers to lead a revolt against the murderous Alboino and reclaim his woman.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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Slave of Rome
Overview: During Julius Caesar's invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior culture, but Lysircus forces a severely anti-Roman politic. When her father is killed by him in treachery, Antea joins the Romans who have to evade into a swamp. She falls in love with Marcus. Will she forsake her people forever?
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Sandokan Fights Back
Overview: When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off to claim his land back.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-13
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Massacre River
Overview: Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-26
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Red Snow
Overview: Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test a new secret weapon by loyal Alaskan Eskimos. He is aided by Sergeant Koovuk, an Alsaka native Eskimo also in the U.S. military service. Along the way there is an ice-floe evacuation, an air-ice rescue and a fight with a polar bear.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-07
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Hell Commandos
Overview: Members of a German tank crew become trapped behind enemy lines.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Kidnapped to Mystery Island
Overview: Three year old Ada, daughter of the British captain McPherson, is captured by the Indian Tukh sect to represent the incarnation of Kali. Ever hidden in a vast underground system of caverns, she watches over human sacrifices, doubting her vocation. 15 years have passed when her father finally finds her and attempts a rescue, together with a snake-hunter who has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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The Yellow Haired Kid
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok", The Yellow Haired Kid and Johnny Deuce, edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Trail of the Arrow
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Trouble on the Trail
Overview: "Trouble on the Trail" is two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" television series edited together and released as a feature film by Allied Artists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Six Gun Decision
Overview: A compilation of two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Secret of Outlaw Flats
Overview: Two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Outlaw's Son
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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The Matchmaking Marshal
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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Two Gun Marshal
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Marshals in Disguise
Overview: Another of the series of "movies" created by stitching two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series together, U. S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles P. Jones are working to solve the mystery of a number of gold robberies from a stage line and expose the plot of a bank manager to buy the bank with funds stolen from it. Wrapping that one up tightly in less than thirty minutes, they move on up the road to round up another gang that has been holding up Wells Fargo offices, with Jingles posing as a medicine show magician.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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The Tilted Tenderfoot
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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A Place In Hell
Overview: A drunken war correspondent, a prostitute and happy-go-lucky Italian GI barely escape a bombing of Manila, only to realize that the island they land on has been captured by the Japanese. They hook up with a band of Allied survivors and attempt to escape.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-10
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The Rebels
Overview: This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Superargo and the Faceless Giants
Overview: A masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-26
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Border City Rustlers
Overview: Two episodes of "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Hell in Normandy
Overview: The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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The Pacific Connection
Overview: Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai to teach his son the Japanese Katana sword. To counter this, Ben studies under a blind Franciscan monk to obtain some advanced fighting secrets and develop his warrior senses. Additionally Ben must search for the legendary “Iron Reed”. A mystical stick so strong that grows in the lava of an active Volcano.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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LSD Flesh of Devil
Overview: E.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers' with super potent LSD. The only man who can stop them is Rex, a secret agent working for an undisclosed organization.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-02
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The Devil's Man
Overview: Journalist Mike Harway decides to help his friend Christine in her search for her father, professor Baker, who mysteriously disappeared. The investigation brings them to Africa where they are captured and brought to the El Faium abandoned fort. It now hosts a laboratory designed by the twisted mind of Devilman, who dreams of swapping his natural brain with an artificial one that will make him perfect.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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Red River
Overview: Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-10
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-01
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The Two Gun Teacher
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Phantom Trails
Overview: A short feature western comprised of two episodes of the TV series 'Wild Bill Hickok': "A Close Shave for the Marshal" (6/16/1952) and "Ghost Rider" (4/7/1952).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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Timber Country Trouble
Overview: A short feature western comprising two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, the episodes being "Lumber Camp Story" (4/21/1952) and "Boy And The Bandit" (5/5/1952).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-08
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The Silk Worm
Overview: Smeralda Amadier, a retired singer, lives in an isolated villa with her secretary Marcella and her lover Didier (but throws out the latter after catching him with another woman). Smeralda has huge debts and when creditors threaten her with bankruptcy she decides to sell her valuable jewels. That evening, she meets Costas, a handsome young man who seduces her. Next morning, there is no sign of him or the jewels. He was apparently a penniless gigolo, but who was his secret partner in the theft?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Not One Shall Die
Overview: A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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Crossbow: The Movie
Overview: A made-for-tv movie based on tv series 'Crossbow'.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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