Richard Carlson
Also Known As: Richard Dutoit Carlson
Biography: Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Albert Lea, Minnesota, USA
Birthday: April 30, 1912
Deathday: November 26, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Behind Locked Doors
Overview: Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-13
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Beyond Tomorrow
Overview: The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Freedom 2000
Overview: Aliens visiting Earth wax enthusiastic about the benefits of American democracy, capitalism and the free enterprise system, believing the United States' democratic and economic systems to be the greatest achievement in the history of Earth.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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The Sound of Fury
Overview: A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
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The Golden Blade
Overview: Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Fury in the Pacific
Overview: Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint assaults on a Japanese-held island.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Tormented
Overview: A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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The Valley of Gwangi
Overview: A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-24
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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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The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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The Amazing Mr. X
Overview: On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-29
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King Solomon's Mines
Overview: Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Little Foxes
Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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The Young in Heart
Overview: A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-06
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The Magnetic Monster
Overview: The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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All I Desire
Overview: In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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Seminole
Overview: Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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The Power
Overview: One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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It Came from Outer Space
Overview: Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Flat Top
Overview: A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-26
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The Maze
Overview: A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-02
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Too Many Girls
Overview: Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-08
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Riders to the Stars
Overview: Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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White Cargo
Overview: In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-12
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Highways by Night
Overview: A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Back Street
Overview: Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion designer in love with a married banker (Charles Boyer). Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film also stars Richard Carlson, Tim Holt, Frank McHugh, Esther Dale and Cecil Cunningham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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The Helen Morgan Story
Overview: Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-02
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The Blue Veil
Overview: A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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The Duke of West Point
Overview: A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-29
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Young Ideas
Overview: A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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A Stranger in Town
Overview: In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Overview: A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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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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Retreat, Hell!
Overview: During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-17
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These Glamour Girls
Overview: A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Della
Overview: Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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So Well Remembered
Overview: A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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The Affairs of Martha
Overview: Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-21
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The Man from Down Under
Overview: An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-04
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Three for Jamie Dawn
Overview: Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-08
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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Overview: Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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Bengazi
Overview: An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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The Doomsday Flight
Overview: A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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Valentino
Overview: Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-08
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An Annapolis Story
Overview: Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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The Last Command
Overview: During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
Genres: History Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Dancing Co-Ed
Overview: After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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3-D Rarities
Overview: Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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Kid Rodelo
Overview: An embittered ex-convict cowboy sets out to find the hidden gold his partner told him about.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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West Point Widow
Overview: In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Little Accident
Overview: A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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No, No, Nanette
Overview: Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-19
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Winter Carnival
Overview: A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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The Unchained Goddess
Overview: A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology involved in predicting them and warning about the threat of global climate change.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Hemo the Magnificent
Overview: Professor Frank Baxter and some animated friends answer questions about blood. what makes it red? Why do little animals' hearts beat so quickly? And so much more.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-20
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For God and Country
Overview: The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-15
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Sucker Bait
Overview: Military training film exposing the means used by Nazi agents to extract military information from talkative soldiers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-25
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Change of Habit
Overview: Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns in full habit would not be well received. Unaware of her unavailability, John falls for Sister Michelle, serenading her with his guitar — which, luckily for him, effectively wears away at her religious resolve.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Famous Ghost Stories
Overview: A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starring Richard Carlson as a jazz musician haunted by the spirit of an old flame he let fall from a lighthouse.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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