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Whit Bissell

Whit Bissell

Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American character actor. His career in film and television spanned the years 1940 to 1984.

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Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993)

Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine" ...

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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)

Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen. ...

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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979)

A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies. ...

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The Night Rider (1979)

"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine. ...

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The Time Machine (1978)

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for. ...

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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of ...

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Casey's Shadow (1978)

Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey's Shadow, may just be a champion. ...

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The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race (1977)

An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a young Mark Twain and his rival, Mike Fink. ...

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Last of the Mohicans (1977)

During the French and Indian War in colonial America, a white scout, with two of his Indian brothers, helps a British officer escort two women through dangerous territory, with both French troops and hostile Indians after them. ...

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The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)

Speculates that John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination. ...

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Flood! (1977)

Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam. ...

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Psychic Killer (1975)

Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump ...

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Nick and Nora (1975)

Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool. ...

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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974)

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang. ...

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Cry Rape (1973)

A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him. ...

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Soylent Green (1973)

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green. ...

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Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing. ...

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The Salzburg Connection (1972)

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the ...

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Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972)

This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed. ...

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In Broad Daylight (1971)

A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it. ...

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A Tattered Web (1971)

A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict. ...

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City Beneath the Sea (1971)

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive el ...

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The Andersonville Trial (1970)

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. ...

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Airport (1970)

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight. ...

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Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)

A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed. ...

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5 Card Stud (1968)

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one. ...

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A Covenant with Death (1967)

An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge. ...

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Fluffy (1965)

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion. ...

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The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo. ...

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The Final Hour (1965)

Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together. ...

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Where Love Has Gone (1964)

A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover. ...

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Advance to the Rear (1964)

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag grou ...

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Seven Days in May (1964)

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him. ...

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Hud (1963)

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern ...

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Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his elde ...

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, ...

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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses i ...

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Third of a Man (1962)

A prominent man in a small U.S. town, tries to forget his brother in a mental home, but the director of the hospital sets about his rehabilitation. ...

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Exercise No. One (1962)

A lone motorist, changing a wheel on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, is attacked by a demented ex-soldier ...

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The Magnificent Seven (1960)

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. ...

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The Time Machine (1960)

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species. ...

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Never So Few (1959)

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II. ...

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Warlock (1959)

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and ...

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The Black Orchid (1959)

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow. ...

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No Name on the Bullet (1959)

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge. ...

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Monster on the Campus (1958)

A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man. ...

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The Defiant Ones (1958)

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other. ...

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Destination Nightmare (1958)

Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Vernoy," and "Girl on the Road. ...

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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart. ...

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The Tall Stranger (1957)

A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-brother and a wagon train of Confederate homesteaders. ...

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The Wayward Girl (1957)

Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket. ...

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf. ...

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Johnny Tremain (1957)

When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty army, taking part in the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's legendary ride. ...

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. ...

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The Comedian (1957)

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak- ...

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The Young Stranger (1957)

The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater leads to even more trouble. ...

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Man from Del Rio (1956)

Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-s ...

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Dakota Incident (1956)

Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off. ...

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The Proud Ones (1956)

Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the ...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. ...

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At Gunpoint (1955)

A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back. ...

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The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)

One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real ...

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Shack Out on 101 (1955)

A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets. ...

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Trial (1955)

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism. ...

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The Desperate Hours (1955)

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage. ...

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The Naked Street (1955)

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie's condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal's meddling deeds soon backfire. ...

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Not as a Stranger (1955)

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has fr ...

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The Atomic Kid (1954)

A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring. ...

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Target Earth (1954)

Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a ...

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Three Hours to Kill (1954)

After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find ...

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The Shanghai Story (1954)

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them. ...

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The Caine Mutiny (1954)

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. ...

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a "missing link" connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay. ...

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Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly. ...

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It Should Happen to You (1954)

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertisin ...

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Devil's Canyon (1953)

An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun. ...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1953)

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his re ...

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The Turning Point (1952)

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob l ...

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The Sellout (1952)

A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff. ...

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Hoodlum Empire (1952)

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver inve ...

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Boots Malone (1952)

An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge. ...

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Tales of Robin Hood (1951)

The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series. ...

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The Family Secret (1951)

When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder. ...

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The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

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 an ...

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Lost Continent (1951)

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, tab ...

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Red Mountain (1951)

Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of Southern mercenaries. He drags an innocent gold prospecting couple into trouble when the husband is accused of a murder he committed. ...

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Night Into Morning (1951)

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son. ...

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Sealed Cargo (1951)

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his cre ...

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Wyoming Mail (1950)

In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intel ...

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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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A Life of Her Own (1950)

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man. ...

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Convicted (1950)

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted. ...

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Side Street (1950)

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that ...

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Perfect Strangers (1950)

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love. ...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accid ...

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Tokyo Joe (1949)

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities. ...

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Anna Lucasta (1949)

A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process. ...

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The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)

A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges. ...

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He Walked by Night (1949)

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. ...

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Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes. ...

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That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Compl ...

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Canon City (1948)

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary. ...

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Raw Deal (1948)

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of ...

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Another Part of the Forest (1948)

This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way. ...

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The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen. ...

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A Double Life (1947)

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage. ...

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Brute Force (1947)

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? ...

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The Sea of Grass (1947)

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals. ...

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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)

A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of bones. Thus begins a merry chase in which a newspaper reporter, a drunken policeman and a hand-painted necktie help locate the missing witness in a criminal ...

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Somewhere in the Night (1946)

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million. ...

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Cluny Brown (1946)

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. ...

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The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world. ...

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Winged Victory (1944)

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involv ...

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Destination Tokyo (1943)

During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enem ...

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Holy Matrimony (1943)

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications. ...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)

In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty. ...

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The Sea Hawk (1940)

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures. ...

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