Richard Deacon
Also Known As: Richard Lewis Deacon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 08, 1984
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The Birds
Overview: Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-28
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Critic's Choice
Overview: Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Overview: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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The Gnome-Mobile
Overview: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-19
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Piranha
Overview: When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-03
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Getting Married
Overview: A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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Billie
Overview: A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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Cry Vengeance
Overview: Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-24
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Lady in Cement
Overview: While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-19
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Enter Laughing
Overview: A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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The Young Philadelphians
Overview: Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-21
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Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
Overview: A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Overview: Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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No Man's Valley
Overview: Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-23
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
Overview: Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Dear Heart
Overview: A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-07
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Rabbit Test
Overview: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed
Overview: Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Spring Reunion
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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It Started with a Kiss
Overview: While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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Désirée
Overview: In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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The King's Pirate
Overview: Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Everything's Ducky
Overview: Everything's Ducky is a 1961 film directed by Don Taylor and starring Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper. Two sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duck waddles all over the ship until he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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That Touch of Mink
Overview: Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-14
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This Island Earth
Overview: Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Lay That Rifle Down
Overview: A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-07
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Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
Overview: Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. He is in for trouble however when a local girl is banished to the island by her father, who then comes after Crusoe.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Jack Benny Christmas Shopping Show
Overview: Jack is determined to finish his Christmas shopping in one visit and tortures a wallet salesman with constant changes to his order. Meanwhile, Dennis is having difficulty finding the right present for his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Overview: The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Bad Manners
Overview: Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-11
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Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty
Overview: Steve Martin's second NBC special was made up entirely of sketches. Highlights include: Marty Robbins' "El Paso" with monkeys; "The Death Of Socrates"; and "Bizarre Oddities Of The World."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Them!
Overview: As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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The Awakening of Cassie
Overview: Cassie is a young, pretty, free-spirited artist. She meets Mark, a handsome art gallery owner, and experiences in five days what few women do in a lifetime. Thrown into a whirlwind love affair, Cassie discovers both the pleasurable and painful realities of life. With fierce determination she rises to the level of supreme awareness, physically and mentally, and acknowledges the purpose of life and love!
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Invaders from Mars
Overview: In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Private Hell 36
Overview: In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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Murder Can Hurt You!
Overview: A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight bumbling super-sleuths band together in a battle of wits against the devilishly clever Master Criminal.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-21
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Blackboard Jungle
Overview: Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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The Hired Man
Overview: The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the "Code 3" TV series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-10
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The Silent Kill
Overview: Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a suicide, but Callahan's not so sure. Directed by Don Siegel from a script by Stirling Silliphant as the pilot for a CBS television show called "Brock Callahan" which was not picked up.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-11
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Overview: A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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A Summer Place
Overview: A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Overview: In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-20
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The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Overview: Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henrietta escapes.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-19
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Persecución hasta Valencia
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Overview: Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Decision at Sundown
Overview: A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-10
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The Solid Gold Cadillac
Overview: Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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The Man from Clover Grove
Overview: A poor farmer, always inventing things. A lot don't work but the toys he makes brings joy to the children at the local orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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The Raiders
Overview: Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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That Darn Cat!
Overview: A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Kiss Them for Me
Overview: Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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Affair in Reno
Overview: The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-15
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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The Gossip Columnist
Overview: New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Who's Minding the Store?
Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Overview: A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Overview: During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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About Time
Overview: An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
Overview: Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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The Proud Ones
Overview: Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-15
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Hot Blood
Overview: Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash. Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-07
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North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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The Patsy
Overview: When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Prince of Players
Overview: Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-11
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Shield for Murder
Overview: A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-27
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The Man Who Understood Women
Overview: A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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Lover Come Back
Overview: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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The High Cost of Loving
Overview: Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-16
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All in a Night's Work
Overview: After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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The Power and the Prize
Overview: An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-26
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