Sam Laws
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Adult: No
Birthday: January 26, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: March 16, 1990
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The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Overview: A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-16
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White Line Fever
Overview: An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Genres: Romance Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-16
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Hit Man
Overview: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Dirty O'Neil
Overview: A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Darktown Strutters
Overview: When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Overview: When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-25
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Cool Breeze
Overview: A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Get Crazy
Overview: Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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White Dog
Overview: A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-07
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Truck Turner
Overview: Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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Pray TV
Overview: A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
Overview: Just before a championship basketball tournament, a teenage athlete learns that he has leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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A Dream for Christmas
Overview: A Southern minister is assigned to a poor church in California where the congregation is drifting away and the church itself is scheduled for demolition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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Walking Tall
Overview: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Overview: Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Heart Like a Wheel
Overview: Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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Mr. Billion
Overview: An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-03
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Project X
Overview: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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Sweet Jesus, Preacherman
Overview: A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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