William Phillips
Also Known As: William S. Phillips, Bill Phillips, William 'Bill' Phillips
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 01, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 27, 1957
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Lady Gangster
Overview: An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Revenue Agent
Overview: Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-12
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Cavalry Scout
Overview: Kirby Frye, a former Confederate officer but now a Union Cavalry scout, is sent into Montana territory to locate and retrieve three Gatling Guns stolen from the U.S. Arsenal by outlaws believed to have taken them west to sell to the Soiux and Cheyenne. The trail leads him to Red Bluff where, aided by Claire Corville, he and the audience discover together and real quick like that Martin Gavin, a supposedly-honest operator of a freight line, has the guns and intends to exchange them to the Indians for furs.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-13
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Red Light
Overview: Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Fastest Gun Alive
Overview: Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-12
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Wicked Woman
Overview: Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-09
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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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Night Passage
Overview: Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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The Man from Colorado
Overview: Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-07
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On the Town
Overview: Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Johnny Allegro
Overview: Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Overview: An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-05
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Bugles in the Afternoon
Overview: Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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The Hidden Eye
Overview: A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-31
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Easy Living
Overview: A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-08
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Naked Gun
Overview: Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Overview: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-15
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Overview: A female police detective enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Genres: Crime Mystery Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
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Just This Once
Overview: An heir of a vast fortune is deeply in debt because he spends faster than his very generous trust fund allows. There is a battle of wills between his selfish spendthrift was and the money manager which is is forced/tricked into appointing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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Chain Gang
Overview: Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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He's a Cockeyed Wonder
Overview: An orange packer (Mickey Rooney) foils robbers with magic and wins the boss's (William Demarest) daughter (Terry Moore).
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-02
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The Texas Rangers
Overview: It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-03
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Attack of the Jungle Women
Overview: This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson. It, between tons of shots of bare-breasted Choco and Cuna Indian women, has a flimsy plot about a party of engineers "seeking" a continental highway route from South America through Central America to the United States.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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Private Eyes
Overview: After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-06
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What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
Overview: An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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A Yank in Korea
Overview: A tough sergeant has to teach a hotshot young soldier how to be a team player.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-14
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Overview: Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Till the Clouds Roll By
Overview: Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Stagecoach To Fury
Overview: A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-13
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Smuggler's Gold
Overview: A deep-sea diver becomes romantically involved with the daughter of a gold smuggler.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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Fort Yuma
Overview: Apaches plan to attack a fort by wearing uniforms plundered from a cavalry officer's (Peter Graves) supply column.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-04
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Overview: Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Backlash
Overview: Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Living in a Big Way
Overview: A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-10
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First Comes Courage
Overview: Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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Main Street After Dark
Overview: A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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East of Eden
Overview: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Gun Belt
Overview: Gunfighter Billy Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and marry Arlene Reach. His brother Matt, father of Chip, the nephew Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Hellcats of the Navy
Overview: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is ordered to retrieve a revolutionary new Japanese mine, Abbott is forced to leave frogman Wes Barton (Harry Lauter) behind to save the rest of his crew. But Abbott's second-in-command Don Landon (Eduard Franz) is convincing that Abbott's sacrifice of Barton was due to the fact that the dead man had been amorously pursuing Helen.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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The Law vs. Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy the Kid is forced to kill for the woman he loves, and is ultimately brought to justice by his old friend Pat Garrett.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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Sergeant York
Overview: Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-20
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The Red Badge of Courage
Overview: Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he learns that the Union actually won the battle, shame over his cowardice leads him to lie to his friend Tom and the other soldiers, saying that he had been injured in battle. However, when he learns that his unit will be leading a charge against the enemy, Henry takes the opportunity to face his fears and redeem himself.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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City for Conquest
Overview: The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Devil's Canyon
Overview: An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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The Flying Missile
Overview: A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-24
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Easy Life
Overview: In this entry in the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series young Frank Davis, dropping out of school and joining a small-time hoodlum gang, finds out that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-20
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The Last Installment
Overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-05
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A Shot in the Dark
Overview: A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-05
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Detective Story
Overview: Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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Man Without a Star
Overview: A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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The Great American Mug
Overview: This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-06
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Steel Against the Sky
Overview: Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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See Here, Private Hargrove
Overview: Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-18
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Murder in the Big House
Overview: When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-11
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Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Overview: Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt. Taylor. Lt. Taylor talks to the men about the necessity of becoming practiced in the way of the aircraft in such a way as to enable them to rely on their senses much of their time in the air, as reliance on instruments can be confusing for beginning pilots. He explains that, at first, flying will be like walking or riding a bicycle were first learned -- by trial and error and following strict instructions. But with practice, eventually the pilot's senses will take over and much of the process of flying will rely more on his feel for the plane and less on rote following of instructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Father of the Bride
Overview: Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-18
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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Overview: In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovation to shield the well from water entry by using a drive pipe finally allows drilling to proceed until striking oil in August, 1859. His perseverance yields many barrels of oil a day, and immediately brings about the start of the oil industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-29
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Overview: When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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Revolt at Fort Laramie
Overview: At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.
Genres: Action War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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The Harvey Girls
Overview: On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Genres: Music Western Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-18
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The Sea of Grass
Overview: On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-25
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The Outriders
Overview: Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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