Sid Melton
Also Known As: Sidney Meltzer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: May 22, 1917
Deathday: November 02, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lady Sings the Blues
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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The Lemon Drop Kid
Overview: When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Radar Secret Service
Overview: A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Three Desperate Men
Overview: When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook. They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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Shadow of the Thin Man
Overview: High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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The Atomic Submarine
Overview: Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-29
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Lost Continent
Overview: When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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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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The Steel Helmet
Overview: A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-24
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This Could Be the Night
Overview: To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Hi-Jacked
Overview: A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-07
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The Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Why Must I Die
Overview: A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Hit!
Overview: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Close-Up
Overview: A photographer accidentally photographs a Nazi war criminal on the streets of New York and becomes a target for reprisals and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-09
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Girls in Chains
Overview: A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-17
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Tough Assignment
Overview: A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Genres: Western Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
Overview: A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-27
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Western Pacific Agent
Overview: An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-10
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Fingerprints Don't Lie
Overview: A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Lady at Midnight
Overview: A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-15
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Motor Patrol
Overview: A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Dr. Broadway
Overview: A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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Mask of the Dragon
Overview: A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-10
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Overview: Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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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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Sky High
Overview: When he is told that he is to spend three more years as a tailgunner, goofball GI Herbert Pumice thinks that a promotion--which he has little to no chance of getting--will get him out of the job he hates. He asks his girlfriend Sally, who owns the base café, for help. She goes to the base commander, Col. Baker--who she knows has a crush on her--to help out Herbert. Col. Baker schedules a promotion hearing for Herbert that Friday. He naturally fails it miserably, and then learns that Col. Baker is going out on a date with Sally. Meanwhile, the base military intelligence officer discovers that Herbert is a dead-ringer for the head of a spy ring intending to sabotage a new automated plane, and gets Herbert assigned to infiltrate the gang. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Stop That Cab
Overview: Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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The Geisha Boy
Overview: Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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Everybody's Dancin'
Overview: Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Edge of Hell
Overview: In this heart-warming drama, a beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle to eke out a living upon the cruel streets. He is hired to perform at a rich kid's birthday party. There, the beggar is offered $500 for his beloved dog. He refuses and again hits the streets. Soon he becomes so impoverished that he can no longer provide food for his four-legged friend; he sells him for $20. The beggar is then beaten and robbed. Later he learns that Flip died. The man soon follows the dog to heaven where they begin performing for God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Return to Green Acres
Overview: Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hesitant.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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The Garment Jungle
Overview: Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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White Heat
Overview: A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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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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The Return of Jesse James
Overview: Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Savage Drums
Overview: There is this little small-island kingdom located off the South China coast and the United States offers a pact of economic aid and military assistance if needed.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-22
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Game Show Models
Overview: Stuart Guber has decided to drop back into society, by leaving his performance artist girlfriend and accepting a job working for a top record label. Trouble soon arises when his boss concocts the idea of doing a sex themed game show (hosted by character actor legend Dick Miller). Meanwhile, Stuart begins having an affair with the sister of the label’s new superstar (Thelma Houston).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Blondie Goes to College
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-15
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Mug Town
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Lone Texan
Overview: After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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It Takes All Kinds
Overview: After possibly killing a man in a brawl at a farewell party Tony Gunther, an American merchant seaman, is knocked out and wakes up in the apartment of Laura Ring, the secretary of a shipping company.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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New York Town
Overview: Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Holiday Rhythm
Overview: A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-30
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Thundering Jets
Overview: An Air Force captain teaches pilots to fly jets but doesn't like it.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Body and Soul
Overview: Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Beau James
Overview: The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-07
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Overview: Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Alias Jesse James
Overview: Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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The Tunnel of Love
Overview: A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Kilroy Was Here
Overview: "Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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Sixpack Annie
Overview: A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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Leave It to the Marines
Overview: Gerald Meek and Myrna McAllister go to city hall to apply for a marriage license. Gerald wanders into the Marine Recruiting office by mistake and Sergeant Delaney signs him into the Marine Corps and sends him for a medical examination before Gerald realizes what has happened. He finds himself in uniform and ready to be shipped to boot camp without any delay, other than explain to his intended-bride that Uncle Sam has other plans for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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That Lady from Peking
Overview: Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Rendezvous in Space
Overview: This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-10
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