Richard Karlan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 24, 1919
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 10, 2004
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The Racket
Overview: The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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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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Betrayal
Overview: Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-13
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Accused of Murder
Overview: A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Man Who Died Twice
Overview: An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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Blowing Wild
Overview: Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Inside the Mafia
Overview: A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
Overview: When Captain Kidd is reprieved from the gallows by a greedy nobelman who wants to know the location of his buried treasure, he sets off across the seven seas with faithful slave girl Eva Gabor in tow.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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The Unknown Man
Overview: A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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The Crooked Circle
Overview: A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-11
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Overview: At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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Star!
Overview: Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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Bright Victory
Overview: A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Sierra Passage
Overview: When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Snow Dog
Overview: The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood's 1915 short-story "The Tentacles of the North," which was also the working title. Kirby Grant again played Rod McDonald of the Canadian Royal Mounted, and once again the vehicle was stolen by his canine sidekick, the white malamute Chinook. This time, Rod and Chinook are tracking a mysterious white wolf, thought to have killed several of the local traders.
Genres: Western Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-16
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Hollywood or Bust
Overview: The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Tangier Incident
Overview: Steve Gordon, an American agent posing as a black market operator, is in Tangier on a mission to stop the plans of three atomic-scientists who are there to pool their secrets and sell them in a package to the Communists.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Rock All Night
Overview: Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.
Genres: Crime Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-27
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Sailor Beware
Overview: Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-08
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