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The Comancheros (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Comancheros
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Wayne / Stuart Whitman …
other title: I Comanceros / Os Comancheros …
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
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Marty (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Marty
director: Delbert Mann actor: Rod Steiger / Nancy Marchand …
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
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Al Capone (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Al Capone
director: Richard Wilson actor: Rod Steiger / Fay Spain …
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
director: Leslie H. Martinson actor: Rosalind Russell / Darren McGavin …
other title: Cómo me hice agente de la CIA
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
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Too Many Thieves (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Too Many Thieves
director: Abner Biberman actor: Peter Falk / Britt Ekland …
other title: El filo de un cuchillo / Règlement au couteau …
When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things. Compiled from the series "Trials of O'Brien" episodes "The Greatest Game Parts 1 & 2".
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St. Helens (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
St. Helens
director: Ernest Pintoff actor: Art Carney / David Huffman …
other title: Uragano di fuoco / Mount St. Helens - Der Killervulkan …
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
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The Badlanders (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Badlanders
director: Delmer Daves actor: Alan Ladd / Ernest Borgnine …
other title: Gli uomini della terra selvaggia / Homens das Terras Bravias …
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
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The Big Show (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Big Show
director: James B. Clark actor: Esther Williams / Cliff Robertson …
other title: Il grande spettacolo / Die große Attraktion …
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
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The Stranger Within (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Stranger Within
director: Lee Philips actor: Barbara Eden / George Grizzard …
other title: The Stranger Within - Die Saat des Grauens / Die Saat des Alien
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
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The Wild Party (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Wild Party
director: Harry Horner actor: Anthony Quinn / Carol Ohmart …
other title: Una fiesta sin fin / La nuit bestiale …
An ex-football brute (Anthony Quinn) and his beatnik gang take a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her boyfriend hostage (Arthur Franz) at a jazz joint.
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The People Next Door (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The People Next Door
director: David Greene actor: Eli Wallach / Julie Harris …
other title: L'uomo della porta accanto / Juventud pervertida …
A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.
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Deadly Harvest (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Deadly Harvest
director: Timothy Bond actor: Clint Walker / Nehemiah Persoff …
other title: Deadly Harvest - Raccolto mortale / Colheita Mortal …
Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.
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Day of the Outlaw (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Day of the Outlaw
director: André de Toth actor: Robert Ryan / Burl Ives …
other title: La notte senza legge / Tag der Gesetzlosen …
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
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Psychic Killer (1975) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Psychic Killer
director: Ray Danton actor: Jim Hutton / Paul Burke …
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 off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.