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Eugene Jackson

Eugene Jackson

Eugene Jackson gained fame as Farina's older brother, Pineapple, in six of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" serials - "The Mysterious Mystery", "The Big Town", "Circus Fever", "Dog Days", "The Love Bug" and "Shootin Injuns". Besides films he sang and danced on the vaudeville circuit - billed as "Hollywood's most famous colored kid star". Most of his film roles were bit parts, most uncredited. He did appear as Diahann Carroll's Uncle Lou on TV's "Julia" and Redd Foxx's friend on "Sanford and Son". In later years he taught dance at studios he started in Compton and Pasadena. He trained several performers in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess. His work was featured in a dance retrospective for the 1993 Los Angeles Festival.

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The Addams Family (1991)

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't rec ...

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Swing Shift (1984)

In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the ...

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Off the Wall (1983)

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. ...

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American Gigolo (1980)

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for de ...

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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan. ...

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Scott Joplin (1977)

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time. ...

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All the President's Men (1976)

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post. ...

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Cleopatra Jones (1973)

After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her. ...

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40 Carats (1973)

After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite h ...

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Coffy (1973)

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path. ...

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The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)

Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifte ...

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Black Gunn (1972)

A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead ...

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Melinda (1972)

A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to fra ...

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The Carey Treatment (1972)

A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge. ...

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Chandler (1971)

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress. ...

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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town. ...

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Looking for Love (1964)

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack. ...

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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has aveng ...

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The Apartment (1960)

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the afterma ...

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North by Northwest (1959)

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. ...

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The Sound and the Fury (1959)

The once-prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Miss., has been reduced to near-penury by generations of alcoholism and sin. Levelheaded Jason struggles to keep the family together, but his teenage stepsister, Quentin, chafes against his strictures. When Q ...

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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown i ...

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort. ...

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Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hi ...

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Take My Life (1942)

A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, they begin to suspect they're up to nefarious deeds. ...

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Golden Hoofs (1941)

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold. ...

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Sporting Blood (1940)

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda. ...

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The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)

Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an o ...

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Reform School (1939)

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito a ...

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Kentucky (1938)

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family. ...

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Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond. ...

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Anaesthesia (1938)

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times. ...

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Rhythm Rodeo (1938)

An All-Black comedy musical. ...

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The Buccaneer (1938)

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812. ...

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Wine, Women and Horses (1937)

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife. ...

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Midnight Court (1937)

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves. ...

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Guns and Guitars (1936)

A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff. ...

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The Lonely Trail (1936)

Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk. ...

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Red River Valley (1936)

Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site. ...

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Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, G ...

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Secret Service (1931)

In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain. ...

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Sporting Chance (1931)

A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life. ...

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Sporting Blood (1931)

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well. ...

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Cimarron (1931)

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a lea ...

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