Charles McGraw
Also Known As: Charles Butters, Charles Mc Graw, Чарльз Макгро, Charles Crisp Butters
Biography: Charles McGraw (born Charles Butters) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He developed into a leading man, especially in film noir classics during the late 1940s and early 1950s. His gravelly voice and rugged looks enhanced his appeal in the noir stylistic genre and provided him many roles as cops, military officers, and the such.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Birthday: May 10, 1914
Deathday: July 29, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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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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A Boy and His Dog
Overview: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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Hang 'em High
Overview: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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Armored Car Robbery
Overview: While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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The Defiant Ones
Overview: Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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The Wonderful Country
Overview: Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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The Narrow Margin
Overview: A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-03
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Overview: Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Loophole
Overview: Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft, Donovan is fired from his job. He is then prevented from finding other employment by Javert-like insurance investigator Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw). Despite many setbacks, Donovan attempts to clear his muddied name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-28
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His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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T-Men
Overview: Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Border Incident
Overview: The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Reign of Terror
Overview: The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-15
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The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
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Roadblock
Overview: An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Overview: A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Berlin Express
Overview: In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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The Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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Blood on the Moon
Overview: Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Overview: While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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The Killer Inside Me
Overview: Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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The Night Stalker
Overview: Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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The Long Night
Overview: City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-28
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Johnny Got His Gun
Overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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The Cruel Tower
Overview: The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-28
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The Man in the Net
Overview: An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-10
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The Hunted
Overview: A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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Cimarron
Overview: The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Side Street
Overview: A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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In Cold Blood
Overview: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Away All Boats
Overview: The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-16
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Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
Overview: When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-01
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The Story of Molly X
Overview: Molly's husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he's shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Disguised as a noble woman, she and her gang rob security transports. But when one day Rob confesses to her that he killed Rick out of jealousy, she shoots him down immediately. In lack of proof she can't be convicted for the murder, but she goes to jail for the robberies. It's a new and very open female prison, where she learns a profession for the first time in her life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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The Threat
Overview: A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Overview: A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing gangster involvement on the piers, and meets up with a "code of silence" amongst all potential witnesses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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The Impostor
Overview: The story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he steals the dead man's uniform and identification papers, then hides from the law by joining the Resistance movement. Clement's new identity and purpose in life reforms him, and in due time he has sacrificed himself in service of his country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Double Crossbones
Overview: Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty Ben. They avoid being killed by faking a case of the pox, which causes the panicked captain and crew to desert the ship. The two find themselves alone, and when a lucky cannon shot hits a mast on a British ship, they find themselves mistaken for pirates. They sail to Tortuga, where they recruit such notorious corsairs as Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonney, and Blackbeard to lay siege to Chaleston and expose the villain Elden.
Genres: Comedy History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-26
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The Mad Ghoul
Overview: A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
Overview: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Two Tickets to London
Overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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Saddle the Wind
Overview: Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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Chandler
Overview: A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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The Horizontal Lieutenant
Overview: A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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War Paint
Overview: An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.
Genres: Western Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Roses Are Red
Overview: A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-10
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Nightmare in Chicago
Overview: The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-02
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Toward the Unknown
Overview: Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-27
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One Minute to Zero
Overview: An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Joe Dakota
Overview: A stranger rides into town and says he is looking for a local Indian. Told he left town, the truth everyone has been hiding comes out including the stranger's true identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-27
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Once More, My Darling
Overview: An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
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The Devil and Miss Sarah
Overview: A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-04
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Money to Burn
Overview: A convict who managed to print $1 million in counterfeit bills in the prison print shop hatches a scheme to swap them for real money.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-27
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Joe Butterfly
Overview: The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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Thunder Over the Plains
Overview: Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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Pendulum
Overview: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-14
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They Came to Blow Up America
Overview: Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
Overview: Suddenly widowed by an accident, a deputy sheriff from the Midwest becomes a customs agent and cracks a narcotics ring. Pilot movie for the series "O'Hara, U.S. Treasury."
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Destroyer
Overview: Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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The Moon Is Down
Overview: The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-14
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The Andersonville Trial
Overview: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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The Farmer's Daughter
Overview: After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-26
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On the Old Spanish Trail
Overview: A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-15
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Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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The Longest Night
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-12
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Twilight for the Gods
Overview: An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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Perilous Voyage
Overview: A South American guerrilla, whose revolution is faltering, hijacks a ship carrying arms and holds all of the passengers hostage.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-29
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The Big Fix
Overview: Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-19
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The Undying Monster
Overview: A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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