Angelo Rossitto
Also Known As: Angelo Salvatore Rossitto, Little Angie, Moe
Biography: Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (February 18, 1908 – September 21, 1991) was an American actor and voice artist. He had dwarfism and was 2'11" (89 cm) tall, and was often billed as Little Angie or Moe. Angelo first appeared in silent films opposite Lon Chaney and John Barrymore. On-screen, he portrayed everything from dwarfs, midgets, gnomes, and pygmies as well as monsters, villains, and aliens, with appearances in more than 70 films. Rossitto was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Salvatore Rossitto and Carmela Caniglia, both born in Carlentini, Province of Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, and had a sister, Josephine Rossitto. He was discovered by John Barrymore and made his screen debut opposite Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue (1927). That same year he appeared in Warner Brother's Old San Francisco. He appeared in the controversial 1932 film Freaks directed by Tod Browning, and another controversial film, 1938's Child Bride. During the 1940s, he appeared in several poverty row movies starring Bela Lugosi. He appeared frequently in television series and mini-series, particularly best known for the police drama Baretta, and his later film roles included appearances in Alex in Wonderland (1970), Brain of Blood (1971), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Little Cigars (1973), and Fairy Tales (1978). His last major role was as "Master" opposite Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Rossitto appears alongside singer/songwriter Tom Waits and Lee Kolima on the cover art of Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, which pays homage to his performance in Freaks. He also appears on the cover of Bob Dylan's album The Basement Tapes.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 21, 1991
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Pufnstuf
Overview: Jimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there, he befriends many of the island's inhabitants, but the evil Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) is determined to steal Freddy the flute away from the boy to impress the visiting Witches' Council and win the Witch of the Year Award.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-13
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The Stone Killer
Overview: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-08
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Mesa of Lost Women
Overview: A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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Scared to Death
Overview: A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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The Corpse Vanishes
Overview: A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Overview: A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Genres: Crime Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Overview: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-29
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Fairy Tales
Overview: On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-01
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Brain of Blood
Overview: Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-01
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Spooks Run Wild
Overview: A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Overview: Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
Overview: Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Child Bride
Overview: Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her crusade. One of these men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on little Jennie and plots to make her his bride.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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The Wild and the Innocent
Overview: In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Mongo's Back in Town
Overview: Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
Genres: Crime Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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Carnival Lady
Overview: When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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The Bandit Queen
Overview: Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Overview: The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Genres: Fantasy Family Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-07
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Old San Francisco
Overview: In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
Overview: Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-16
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The Other
Overview: A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-24
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While the City Sleeps
Overview: A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-15
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Overview: Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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Invasion of the Saucer-Men
Overview: Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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The Big House
Overview: Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Overview: A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he seems; there's fog on the waterfront and someone still has that poison-dart gun...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
Overview: Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-01
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The Adventures of Super Pup
Overview: The intrepid journalist of the Daily Bugle newspaper, Bark Bent, is secretly Superpup and must save his friend and co-worker Pamela Poodle from the clutches of the evil Professor Sheepdip.
Genres: Family TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'
Overview: Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central Australia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-25
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Doomed to Die
Overview: Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-12
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Galaxina
Overview: Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Little Cigars
Overview: A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-22
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Overview: In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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The Magic Sword
Overview: The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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The Clones
Overview: A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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One Stolen Night
Overview: When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-15
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The Master Gunfighter
Overview: Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Genres: Drama Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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From a Whisper to a Scream
Overview: The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Dementia
Overview: In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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The Dark
Overview: At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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The Spider Woman
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Overview: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-16
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Hellzapoppin'
Overview: Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Freaks
Overview: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Doctor Dolittle
Overview: A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Genres: Music Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Alex in Wonderland
Overview: Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The Baron of Arizona
Overview: The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
Genres: Romance Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-04
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The Story of Mankind
Overview: The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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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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Help Woodsy Spread the Word
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Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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The Trip
Overview: After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-23
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The Perils of Pauline
Overview: Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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The Mysterious Island
Overview: On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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I Believed in You
Overview: An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-09
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