Don Francks
Also Known As: Don Francis, Don Harvey Francks, Iron Buffalo
Biography: Don Harvey Francks (February 28, 1932 – April 3, 2016), also known by his stage name Iron Buffalo, was a Canadian actor, musician and singer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: February 28, 1932
Deathday: April 03, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Small Gifts
Overview: Nora and Evan are a young married couple who find their finances are in serious trouble as Christmas draws near in this new take on O. Henry's classic story ""The Gift of the Magi.""
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-18
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I'm Not There
Overview: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Rock & Rule
Overview: A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.
Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-15
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Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell
Overview: Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-28
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Heavy Metal
Overview: The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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Married to It
Overview: While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect on their lives and marriages.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village
Overview: Morag the Tulga Witch seeks revenge on her old enemy Logray, shaman of the Ewoks, who holds the magic Sunstar while she possesses it's darker half, the Shadowstone.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Johnny Mnemonic
Overview: In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North
Overview: Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path outlined in Mackenzie's journal, the film depicts his arduous journey by canoe all the way to the salt water of the Arctic Ocean - one of the great epics of northern exploration.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
Overview: Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Finian's Rainbow
Overview: An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a struggling farmer and an African American community facing persecution from a bigoted politician.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-09
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The Overlanders
Overview: The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one of them pregnant), and a young boy begin the odyssey which is to change all their lives. Through jungle-like forests, they look for a trail abandoned 10 years before by explorers and fur-traders. It runs out in a beautiful mountain trap, a box canyon with a waterfall. Left leaderless when death strikes, the vulnerable band must find another route. They decide to descend the mighty Fraser river by raft. Those who survive the great Grand Canyon rapids must continue on foot.
Genres: Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-25
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The Diviners
Overview: Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-03
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My Bloody Valentine
Overview: Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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Summer of the Monkeys
Overview: One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Harriet the Spy
Overview: When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-10
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The Minion
Overview: New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templar - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses her body like a parasite and host!
Genres: Horror Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Overview: This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Christmas Wife
Overview: An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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984: Prisoner of the Future
Overview: A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-22
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Oklahoma Smugglers
Overview: Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Circle
Overview: Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Prayer in the Dark
Overview: The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took in troubled, young Jimmy Flood to protect him from his abusive father. Though one of Emily's grown daughters, Janet feels she did not belong in the quiet, devoutly religious community and left the Quakers, Emily believed that her family ties stayed strong. Real trouble comes to the family when Jimmy Flood returns to the house after busting out of prison with the help of Digby and Lester, and he takes Emily's family hostage in exchange for $4 million. If Emily fails to secure the money in time, her entire family will lose their lives. Determined to resolve the potentially deadly conflict in a peaceful manner, Emily calls an emergency meeting of the town friends to work out a solution and save her family.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Overview: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-24
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Lie with Me
Overview: Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-14
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Dinner at Fred's
Overview: A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday with a very different kind of family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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Terminal Choice
Overview: A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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The Big Town
Overview: It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Fast Company
Overview: An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-18
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Drying Up the Streets
Overview: An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
Overview: Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is court. Will she win?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-27
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Madonna: Innocence Lost
Overview: Pop-singer and actress Madonna's rise to fame is chronicled in this made-for-television movie. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, who came to New York City in search of fame and fortune. Based on the book "Madonna: Unauthorized", the docudrama follows Miss Ciccone's rocky road from the streets of New York to the top of the charts in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-29
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On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
Overview: The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-05
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Fish Hawk
Overview: A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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Madballs: Escape from Orb!
Overview: The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break for it on Earth.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy Fantasy Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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The Toy Shop
Overview: Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a nightmare when Master Jack, the evil jack-in-the-box casts a spell and shrinks Katherine to the size of a doll.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Overview: Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, discover and explore the center of the Earth, a mysterious place full of dangerous electrical storms, prehistoric reptiles and swamp monsters. Based on author Jules Verne's fantasy novel, this animated adventure follows the explorers' struggles to survive and prove their findings to the rest of the world.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-10
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Jungle Boy
Overview: Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-31
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Call of the Wild
Overview: A story of friendship between a lonely little boy who braves Alaskan blizzards in search of gold and his loyal companion Buck, the courageous and faithful German Shepherd. (Animation)
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Hot Paint
Overview: Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-20
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a bond with Buck. Thornton is murdered. Buck avenges him and must make a crucial decision.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Star Wars Holiday Special
Overview: Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Paint Cans
Overview: A Canadian take on The Player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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The Conspiracy of Fear
Overview: The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychopath, and the CIA. He teams up with a beautiful but rough petty thief to uncover why he has become the hunted. Together, they discover that a valuable piece of information his father left behind is worth killing for-they just have to stay alive to find it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Overview: James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border his true character emerges - he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-14
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My Name Is Tanino
Overview: During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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High Steel
Overview: A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indians from Kahnawake, near Montréal, famed for their skill in erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers. The film shows their nimble work, high above the pavement, but there are also glimpses of the quieter community life of the old Kahnawake Reserve.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Drylanders
Overview: The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left eastern Canada to stake their future in the Prairies.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Portrait of Snow
Overview: A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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He Never Died
Overview: Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-18
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Summer's Children
Overview: SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job and enters into new relationships, but his sister pursues him in a cat and mouse game, getting into trouble in the city's seedy underground. In a series of flashbacks, we discover the reasons for his initial departure, as he and his sister try to find a peaceful resolution to their feelings about each other.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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Toronto Jazz
Overview: Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau Trio, the Don Thompson Quintet and the Alf Jones Quartet. Their styles show creative self-expression, hard work, and improvisation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Deliverance of Elaine
Overview: A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-10
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Mr. Music
Overview: A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-14
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: In this animated take on the timeless family adventure, the Robinsons wash ashore of a remote tropical island after their boat capsizes. Though they never lose hope of being rescued, their remarkable tale of survival is one that the entire family will enjoy.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-03
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The Possession of Michael D.
Overview: When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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No More Hibakusha!
Overview: Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Bogus
Overview: Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince
Overview: Artoo, Threepio and a broken down android are traded into the hands of young miner Jann Tosh. The android turns out to be an alien with amnesia and a price on his head. It is in fact Mon Julpa, prince of Tammuz-an, who has been put in this predicament by the power hungry vizier Zatec-Cha. Jann, the droids, and a female freight pilot named Jessica Meade help Julpa claim his throne, battle the Pirates of Tarnoonga and settle a dispute with Tammuz-an clan leader Lord Toda. Written by Il Tesoro
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Adventure Family Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-26
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