Beverly Garland
Also Known As: Beverly Lucy Garland
Biography: Beverly Garland (1926–2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence with her role on My Three Sons. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Kate Jackson's widowed mother on Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She also had a recurring role as on 7th Heaven.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 05, 2008
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Overview: Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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Pretty Poison
Overview: A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexpected murder and chaos that change their lives forever.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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Not of This Earth
Overview: An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-10
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It Conquered the World
Overview: An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-14
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Swamp Women
Overview: An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Genres: Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Airport 1975
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Problem Girls
Overview: A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-07
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Killer Leopard
Overview: Movie actress Linda Winters has gone into the jungle to find her lost husband Fred. Bomba the Jungle Boy helps in the rescue effort. A major obstacle facing them is a killer leopard which specializes in tearing people limb from limb.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-22
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The Neanderthal Man
Overview: A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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Naked Paradise
Overview: Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Overview: Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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The Alligator People
Overview: Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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New Orleans Uncensored
Overview: Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer. When the dock manager is murdered before he can notify the authorities of their criminal scheme, Dan coordinates with the police to go undercover and investigate.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Twice-Told Tales
Overview: 3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Stark Fear
Overview: A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately, the wife lands on her feet, but not before she obtains closure with her brutish husband.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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D.O.A.
Overview: Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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And Then They Forgot God
Overview: "And Then They Forgot God" is set in a dystopian future, one in which the environment has suffered (people carry around breathing gear) and people must navigate extremely bureaucratic and rigid rules and procedures. Food is only available through the government, and only to those holding a monthly-issued card. Joe Campanella plays a husband who finds himself in desperate straits when his ration card is rejected because it was in poor condition when received. Despite an official policy that no one in that society goes hungry, Campanella's character receives no help.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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The Miami Story
Overview: Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-03
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The Steel Jungle
Overview: The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-10
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Roller Boogie
Overview: Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Sudden Danger
Overview: Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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The Rocket Man
Overview: After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a cute couple getting together.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
Overview: A sophisticated lawyer (Donna Mills), who is always the bridesmaid but never the bride, gets romantically involved with her down-to-earth secretary (Brian Wimmer).
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-20
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Badlands of Montana
Overview: Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Drive-In Movie Memories
Overview: A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photographs and interviews with Leonard Maltin, John Bloom, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Barry Corbin and many others... Drive-In Movie Memories is a film celebration of America's greatest icon of youth, freedom and the automobile. What began as an auto parts owner's business venture to make some easy money accidentally became a magical place where romance, fun and a sense of community flourished. This film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Gunslinger
Overview: After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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The Wish That Changed Christmas
Overview: Ivy, an orphan wants a grandmother and a doll for Christmas. She mistakes a sign greeting her into a town, she jumps off a bus and shouts, "It's me, Ivy!". In the cold she looks for a grandma unsucessfully. She finally finds a woman who always wanted children and a doll, Holly. Based on the book The Story of Holly and Ivy.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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It's My Turn
Overview: A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-24
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
Overview: Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Hellfire
Overview: Gabriella finds an unfinished symphony that was written by her late uncle Octave Barron who found inspiration through murder. Thrilled by it's possibilities she hires Marius (Ben Cross) to complete the symphony. As he begins work on the piece he finds himself stuck in a bizarre murdering cycle handed down from the original composer.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-23
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Unwed Father
Overview: A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get custody of the child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Weekend Nun
Overview: Drama based on the life of Joyce Duco, with Joanna Pettet as a young nun torn between the reality of her secular job as a daytime juvenile probation officer and the vows she has taken with the church.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Years
Overview: These were the years Frank Sinatra led a group made up of talented rowdies called the Rat Pack. The members include Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. They always had a ball performing together and even more fun off screen. Never have such a collection of name stars worked and played together so long.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Overview: A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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The Day the Earth Moved
Overview: An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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The Joker is Wild
Overview: A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Gamble on Love
Overview: Las Vegas. When Liz was a little girl, the casino her father owned was just a great big playground. But when she returns to the city of neon after his death, it becomes much more. She runs head on into Sonny, the casino's manager, who wants the club for himself. She'd fire him but has fallen completely in love with his brash charm and forceful nature. This time, Las Vegas becomes a playground for lovers, not children, as Liz and Sonny must learn to give a little to gain a lot.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Overview: Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-17
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The Mad Room
Overview: Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Two Guns and a Badge
Overview: In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is revealed, it hardly matters, since most of the bad guys are pushing up daisies on boot hill.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-11
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Death Falls
Overview: A terminally ill man gets his buddy to bust him out of the hospital. But, in the process, the duo antagonizes a city policeman, who trails them to the boonies surrounding their hometown. The local sheriff and their lady friend (who think more kindly of the pair) strive to find the fugitives before the less-compassionate posse, which includes a deranged, rifle-toting foe of the two.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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Abraham's Sacrifice
Overview: Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming of a slave who wishes for his freedom and is willing to do whatever to get it. And eventually his test where he has to sacrifice Issac.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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Voyage of the Yes
Overview: Two teenagers set out on a 2000-mile sailboat journey from California to Hawaii and en route combat the natural challenges and their inner shortcomings.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-16
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The Go-Getter
Overview: The Go-Getter (1956)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Overview: Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Bitter Creek
Overview: "Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-21
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Gundown at Sandoval
Overview: In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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A Life of Her Own
Overview: A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Deadly Volley
Overview: Members of a professional tennis team are suspected in the attempted murder of the team's owner.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-27
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Finding the Way Home
Overview: Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out. On top of that he owns an antique hardware store which is close to bankruptcy. While driving home Max is involved in a traffic accident which gives him amnesia. Confused, lost and in a disordered state, he wanders into a camp full of Latin American farm workers. There he finds a new meaning of life, happiness and a sense of belonging. However, as his memory slowly returns, it's inevitable that he must confront his past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-26
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Calhoun
Overview: Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-08
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The Edge of Innocence
Overview: An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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This Girl For Hire
Overview: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure
Overview: Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-20
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If
Overview: Science and religion collide in a bleak near-future Los Angeles.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-26
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Sixth and Main
Overview: Monica Cord is planning to write a book about the homeless. She observes the men who attend a rescue mission and shelter in downtown Los Angeles. Monica becomes intrigued by one particular derelict, a tall, quiet man known only as John Doe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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To the Moon, Alice
Overview: A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-02
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The Desperate Hours
Overview: Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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Cutter's Trail
Overview: The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-10
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The Healers
Overview: The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-22
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Frank Sinatra Memorial
Overview: Frank Sinatra, the greatest entertainer of the 20th century, is remembered by some of the brightest stars in Hollywood in this television memorial which celebrates his life and mourns his passing. Exclusive flashback interviews with Sinatra, his friends and his family, reveal little known facts about his overwhelming generosity and the sensationalized image created by the press. * In-depth interviews with those who knew him best... Ed McMahon, Tommy Sands, Shecky Green, Phyllis McGuire, Quincy Jones, & Betty Garrett, among others. * See highlights from some of Sinatra’s last films and farewell perfomances.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-16
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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Overview: Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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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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The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
Overview: A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out to be a silly miscommunication of the English language.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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