David Clarke
Also Known As: David Gainey Clarke, David Clark, Dave Clark
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: August 30, 1908
Deathday: April 18, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Overview: Career criminals and a local youth carefully plan and rehearse the robbery of a Missouri bank.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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The New Protocol
Overview: A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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The Narrow Margin
Overview: A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-03
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Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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Abandoned
Overview: A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Hikers in Saint-Tropez
Overview: Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on the Côte d’Azur. To their surprise, who should they meet in St-Tropez but Eric, the guide-from-Hell who transformed their last holiday into a nightmare and whom they swore never to see again...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-09
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Edge of the City
Overview: An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-04
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Overview: Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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The Man from Colorado
Overview: Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-07
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The Boy with Green Hair
Overview: Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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The Long Night
Overview: City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-28
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The Set-Up
Overview: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-29
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Intruder in the Dust
Overview: Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-22
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Foreign Agent
Overview: Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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A Gentleman After Dark
Overview: A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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Red Canyon
Overview: A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-27
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The Front
Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-17
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Overview: An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Raw Deal
Overview: Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-21
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The Asphalt Jungle
Overview: Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Skag
Overview: Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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Thieves' Highway
Overview: Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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Woman in Hiding
Overview: As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-06
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The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Overview: Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Wake of the Red Witch
Overview: Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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The Deadly Game
Overview: A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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The Blonde Bandit
Overview: A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Killer McCoy
Overview: Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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Too Late for Tears
Overview: Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
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Cutting Class
Overview: High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?
Genres: Horror Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-24
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A Lady Without Passport
Overview: An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
Overview: When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-27
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The Outriders
Overview: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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