Nestor Paiva
Also Known As: Nestor Caetano Paiva
Biography: Nestor Paiva (June 30, 1905 - September 9, 1966) was a prolific American actor of Portuguese descent who portrayed the innkeeper on Walt Disney's live-action television series Zorro by ABC and its feature film The Sign of Zorro which was shot in Burbank's Walt Disney Studios. Nestor appeared in motion pictures and television shows from the 1930s to the 1960s such as Get Smart, Bonanza, I Spy, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Addams Family. In 1943, he played the Italian Major in the 20th Century Fox wartime movie Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas. He played the part of Lucas (the boat captain) in the 1954 horror film The Creature from the Black Lagoon starring Ben Chapman as the title monster; Paiva would reprise this role in that film's sequel Revenge of the Creature the following year. He appeared in more than 250 movies. Paiva married in 1941 and had two children, Joseph and Caetana, who appeared with him in the 1956 movie Comanche with Dana Andrews. Paiva died of cancer in 1966. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nestor Paiva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fresno, California, USA
Birthday: June 30, 1905
Deathday: September 09, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Pier 5, Havana
Overview: A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
Overview: When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
Genres: Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-05
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The Trouble with Women
Overview: A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Fear
Overview: B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Follow Me Quietly
Overview: When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-07
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Overview: An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-25
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Tarantula
Overview: A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Vice Raid
Overview: A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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I Was a Shoplifter
Overview: A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-13
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The Three Stooges in Orbit
Overview: The fate of the planet in the hands of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe? That's exactly the situation the trio finds themselves in when they befriend a wacky scientist and must defend his secret invention from a pair of malevolent Martians. Sight gags, slapstick and plenty of nyuks abound as the Stooges bumble their way through an adventure of intergalactic proportions.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-04
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The Great Caruso
Overview: Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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Young Man with a Horn
Overview: Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Revenge of the Creature
Overview: In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Overview: A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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The Mole People
Overview: A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Road to Utopia
Overview: While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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Let's Kill Uncle
Overview: A 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a former British intelligence commander who intends to kill him. A young girl is the boy's only ally against the sarcastic uncle, who uses hypnotism, a pool of sharks, fire, and poisonous mushrooms as weapons.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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The Spirit Is Willing
Overview: When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-07
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All That Heaven Allows
Overview: Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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Ramrod
Overview: A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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I, the Jury
Overview: After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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Les Girls
Overview: After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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Pittsburgh
Overview: Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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The Case Against Brooklyn
Overview: A rookie cop takes on criminals who have the local government in their pocket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Scandal Incorporated
Overview: Are the shocking "Scandal Magazine" stories true?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-12
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The Falcon in Mexico
Overview: The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-04
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Mighty Joe Young
Overview: A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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Hold Back the Dawn
Overview: Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Last Crooked Mile
Overview: A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Shoot to Kill
Overview: A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-15
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Hell on Frisco Bay
Overview: A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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Double Dynamite
Overview: An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-25
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The Ballad of a Gunfighter
Overview: A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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The Madmen of Mandoras
Overview: A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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The First Texan
Overview: After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any political intrigue. However, when President Jackson personally orders him to lead the fight for Texan independence, he overcomes his reluctance to become involved and leads his compatriots to a string of victories over the Mexican army.
Genres: History Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Broadway
Overview: Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Angels' Alley
Overview: Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Comanche
Overview: Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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The Bandits of Corsica
Overview: Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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The Lady Takes a Flyer
Overview: Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-30
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Jivaro
Overview: At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-12
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Killer Ape
Overview: Nasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa… until they run into Jungle Jim.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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Flame Of Stamboul
Overview: An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice".
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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The Wild Party
Overview: An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Meet Boston Blackie
Overview: When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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The Flying Jalopy
Overview: Donald Duck buys a rattletrap used airplane from devious proprietor Ben Buzzard, who tricks the unsuspecting duck into making Ben the beneficiary in case of an accident. Ben then leads Donald on a reckless flight, trying to make the plane crash so that he collect a fortune from Donald's misfortune.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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The Desert Song
Overview: Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-17
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Tornado
Overview: The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-09
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They Saved Hitler's Brain
Overview: At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-18
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The Fabulous Senorita
Overview: A Cuban businessman's daughter elopes with a professor instead of marrying a banker's son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-31
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Carnival in Costa Rica
Overview: Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Four Guns to the Border
Overview: A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team attempt a getaway, when a couple of the locals attempting to follow them, are ambushed by marauding natives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Nob Hill
Overview: A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-13
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Mr. Reckless
Overview: An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are failing and Rudolph's been secretly killing the corpses afterwards. Meanwhile, the Lopez family leaves the town because of the evil going on there
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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Ride The High Iron
Overview: A recent war veteran accepts a job in public relations, but he becomes increasingly unhappy with his career choice. Originally filmed for TV but released theatrically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Casanova's Big Night
Overview: Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Adventures of Casanova
Overview: Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in guerilla tactics against the forces of the Governor. Lady Bianca, the Governor's daughter, is in love with one of the patriots, Lorenzo, and desires to escape from the palace. Her lady-in-waiting, Zanetta, enlists the aid of Casanova and he rescues them and takes them to the partisan's camp. The rebels are victorious. Lady Bianca makes plans to marry Lorenzo, and Casanova and Zanetta have similar plans.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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South Pacific Trail
Overview: Rex, Slim and the boys are fired by a wealthy rancher but decide to help him out when his daughter intends on marrying a shifty, gold-digging actor. Meanwhile, the rancher's foreman executes plans for a train robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-19
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The Marines Fly High
Overview: Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-04
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The Purple Gang
Overview: The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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Prisoners of the Casbah
Overview: A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his bride simply by saying "I Marry You" or "I Divorce You" three times.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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Pot o' Gold
Overview: Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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A Medal for Benny
Overview: Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-16
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The Living Bible
Overview: Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Midnight
Overview: An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Union Pacific
Overview: One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Beau Geste
Overview: When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-24
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Phone Call from a Stranger
Overview: Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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The Hard Way
Overview: Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Bride of Vengeance
Overview: The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Along the Navajo Trail
Overview: U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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5 Fingers
Overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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Fly By Night
Overview: Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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Viva Zapata!
Overview: The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Genres: History Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-07
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Overview: Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Overview: Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
Genres: Western Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Southerner
Overview: Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-30
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A Millionaire for Christy
Overview: Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's in financial straits, decides to try to snag Peter. Zany hijinks ensue and romantic sparks fly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-02
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Outcasts of the City
Overview: In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair is disrupted when her German ex-lover returns and tries to exact his jealous revenge upon the Yankee. When the ex-lover shows up dead, the American is blamed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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The Desperado
Overview: "Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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A Likely Story
Overview: A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-18
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Rhythm of the Islands
Overview: Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-16
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The Lone Wolf in Mexico
Overview: In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-16
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Santa Fe Trail
Overview: As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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The Dancing Masters
Overview: The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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Road to Rio
Overview: Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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North West Mounted Police
Overview: Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Genres: Action Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-22
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Salome, Where She Danced
Overview: During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
Genres: Western War Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Can-Can
Overview: Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe Forrestier. He hatches a plot to photograph her in the act but ends up falling for her — much to the chagrin of her boyfriend, lawyer François Durnais.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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Arise, My Love
Overview: A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Phantom Raiders
Overview: In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Genres: Crime Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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They Knew What They Wanted
Overview: While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-19
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Primrose Path
Overview: Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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He Stayed for Breakfast
Overview: Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Gold of the Seven Saints
Overview: Fur-trapping partners stumble across a cache of gold, but their discovery quickly attracts every greedy villain in the territory.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-18
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Unseen Guardians
Overview: The "unseen guardians" of the title are the Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' Laboratories, which are shown testing electrical equipment, fire extinguishers, and large floor safes; and those who run orphanages, who assure that the children in their care are placed in proper adoptive homes.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-26
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Mara Maru
Overview: An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-23
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The Lady Has Plans
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
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The Lady Pays Off
Overview: The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-05
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King of the Mounties
Overview: King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-17
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Robin Hood of Monterey
Overview: Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband, Don Carlos Belmonte. Eduardo offers Maria money if she will depart the hacienda premises, but she refuses and then accuses Eduardo of making love to her. The old Don doesn't take kindly to his son hitting on his step-mother and attacks him in a rage. The lights go out, the father is killed and Maria blames Eduardo, who escapes from the house, chased by Ricardo's men. The Cisco Kid and Pancho rescue Eduardo, who has been shot, and hide him while they investigate. Cisco discovers that bullets from Maria's gun, a handy little derringer, are the same type that killed Don Carlos. But the Alcalde arrests Cisco and Pancho, and Cisco is "supposedly" executed by a firing squad, but IS NOT shot and escapes by a trick. And now Maria and Ricardo are in real trouble with Cisco on the loose.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-06
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American Empire
Overview: Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Thunder Pass
Overview: A cavalry unit escorts a group of civilians through dangerous territory inhabited by Indians on the warpath.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-20
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Frontier Uprising
Overview: Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Wild Westerners
Overview: Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as Plummer's Deputy. Plummer is still not suspected when McDowell's wife is kidnaped and the outlaws demand the big gold shipment be sent unguarded. So McDowell heads out alone to face the gang with a load of gunpowder instead of gold and only a few trusted Deputies nearby.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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California
Overview: Revolutionaries rise up against the Mexican government in California in 1841 is told through the story of doomed Mexican general Don Francisco Hernandez, who pits his troops against a tenacious team of revolutionaries led by his half brother, Don Michael O'Casey .
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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Hold That Ghost
Overview: Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Humoresque
Overview: A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand. Unfortunately for him, the sultan's wicked twin brother has secretly usurped the throne, someone else is after the lamp for his own ends, and Babs has taken a shine to Aladdin herself and is bent on wrecking his endeavours.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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The Paleface
Overview: Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-17
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The Well Groomed Bride
Overview: A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Overview: Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Background to Danger
Overview: An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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Señor Droopy
Overview: The wolf, the champion toreador, and Droopy, the challenger, are competing to see who is best in the bullring in the hopes of winning the hand of actress Lina Romay (who appears in a live action shot).
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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True to Life
Overview: A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Inspector General
Overview: An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Road to Morocco
Overview: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-10
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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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Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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The Girl from Alaska
Overview: A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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Cornered
Overview: A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-23
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Anything Goes
Overview: On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Menace from Outer Space
Overview: A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger".
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Prison Train
Overview: Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-17
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The Adventures of Martin Eden
Overview: Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-26
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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Overview: In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-07
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Timber!
Overview: Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Overview: In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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For Me and My Gal
Overview: Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Genres: Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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The Left Handed Gun
Overview: When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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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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April in Paris
Overview: A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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The Deep Six
Overview: The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Austin cannot be relied upon in battle (never mind that the plane turns out to be one of ours). To prove that he's worthy of command, Austin volunteers for a dangerous mission: the rescue of a group of US pilots on a Japanese-held island. The ubiquitous William Bendix costars as Frenchy Shapiro (!), Austin's Jewish petty officer and severest critic. If the film has a villain, it is Keenan Wynn as ambitious Lt. Commander Edge, who seems to despise anyone who isn't a mainline WASP.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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