Dick Wesson
Also Known As: Richard Lewis "Dick" Wesson, Richard Lewis Wesson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: November 19, 1922
Deathday: April 25, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Goofy Success Story
Overview: A look at Goofy's rise to stardom, leading into several of his cartoons-Moving Day, Moose Hunters, How to Ride a Horse, and Motor Mania.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Destination Moon
Overview: A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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The Errand Boy
Overview: Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-28
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Calamity Jane
Overview: Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-04
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About Face
Overview: Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Man Behind The Gun
Overview: This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-31
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Dog and Cat
Overview: A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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The Charge at Feather River
Overview: A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-11
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Starlift
Overview: To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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The Desert Song
Overview: Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-30
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Breakthrough
Overview: Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-17
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Sunny Side of the Street
Overview: A TV worker has fickle designs on an aspiring singer for whom she arranges an audition.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Jim Thorpe – All-American
Overview: The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-24
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Paris Follies of 1956
Overview: Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-27
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On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends
Overview: Walt Disney, who is on vacation, gives Jiminy Cricket a phone call to take over hosting duties for one TV episode while he is away. Jiminy decides to gather the other Disney stars together to help him out. Unfortunately, they, too, are on vacation, but how they are spending their respective vacations helps put the show together for him.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-07
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Force of Arms
Overview: During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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Rollercoaster
Overview: A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-10
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