Mort Mills
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Biography: Mort Mills (born Mortimer Morris Kaplan; January 11, 1919 – June 6, 1993) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 150 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957–1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley. He portrayed supporting roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966), and in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 11, 1919
Deathday: June 06, 1993
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Gender: Male
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Psycho
Overview: When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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Touch of Evil
Overview: When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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Torn Curtain
Overview: During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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The Outlaws Is Coming
Overview: Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-14
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The Name of the Game Is Kill
Overview: A desert family offers a traveling stranger its hospitality, but the stranger doesn't realize exactly what they have in store for him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Cry Vengeance
Overview: Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-24
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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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Affair in Trinidad
Overview: A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Genres: Romance Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-29
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24 Hour Psycho
Overview: 24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24. As a result it lasts for exactly 24 hours, rather than the original 109 minutes. The film was an important work in Gordon's early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as "recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light."
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Where Love Has Gone
Overview: A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Overview: Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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Twenty Plus Two
Overview: A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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Desert Sands
Overview: The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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Bullet for a Badman
Overview: Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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The Wild One
Overview: The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-30
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Return of the Gunfighter
Overview: A gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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The Iron Sheriff
Overview: Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Dial Red O
Overview: The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran's hospital, wanting to talk to her. His escape touches off an all-out manhunt, led by Lieutenant Andy Flynn of the sheriff's department.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-13
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Ride a Crooked Trail
Overview: After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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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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Man in the Shadow
Overview: In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.
Genres: Thriller Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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The Shadow on the Window
Overview: Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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Blindfold
Overview: A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there ...
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-23
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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The Quick Gun
Overview: Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Breakout
Overview: A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
Overview: Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their father will let them work on one of his cases. Disappointed when he tells them his work is too dangerous for children, they are more determined than ever to follow in their dad's footsteps, and solve mysteries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Overview: Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie, allied with Fink, battle a group of river pirates trying to pass themselves off as Native Americans.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-18
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Crashing Las Vegas
Overview: An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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Texas Bad Man
Overview: Wayne Morris' B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son of inveterate thief Frank Ferguson. Knowing full well that Ferguson's gang intends to steal a shipment of gold, Morris must stay up nights trying to second-guess his crafty dad. While there's no shortage of action, the resolution to the story relies more on brawn than brain. Western "regulars" Sheb Wooley, Myron Healey and Denver Pyle do their usual in secondary roles, as does Elaine Riley as the requisite (but hardly crucial) heroine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-20
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The Marauders
Overview: A poor homesteader fights back when he's targeted for extinction by a powerful rancher and his gang of hired thugs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-26
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Bombers B-52
Overview: Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Overview: Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-12
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Pushover
Overview: A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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