Kenneth Tobey
Kenneth Jesse Tobey (March 23, 1917 – December 22, 2002) was an extremely prolific American actor who performed in hundreds of productions during a career that spanned more than half a century, including his role as the star of the 1957-1960 Desilu Productions TV series Whirlybirds.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.695 |
Birthday | 1917-03-23 |
Place of Birth | Oakland, California, USA |
Also Known As | Ken Tobey, Kenneth Toby, Kenneth Jesse Tobey, |
1988
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
6.7/3
Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to b...
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Gregory Peck: His Own Man
1969
Marlowe
5.9/73
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it lea...
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Marlowe
1953
Angel Face
7.1/164
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Angel Face
1971
Billy Jack
5.9/66
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
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Billy Jack
1951
The Thing from Another World
6.709/596
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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The Thing from Another World
1978
Nowhere to Run
7/3
Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing...
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Nowhere to Run
1958
Cry Terror!
6.2/22
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
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Cry Terror!
1967
A Time for Killing
4.446/28
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearin...
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A Time for Killing
1981
The Howling
6.6/762
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...
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The Howling
1988
Big Top Pee-wee
4.915/129
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya...
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Big Top Pee-wee
1988
Freeway
4.8/14
A deeply disturbed man goes on a murderous nighttime rampage across Los Angeles.
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Freeway
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7/333
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corr...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1955
Captain Fathom
0/0
While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a...
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Captain Fathom
1949
He Walked by Night
6.7/91
Roy Morgan is a burglar who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops. After Morgan kills a police officer, Se...
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He Walked by Night
1979
The Horror Show
6/2
A history of horror movies.
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The Horror Show
1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.6/185
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
2005
The Naked Monster
4/8
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from...
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The Naked Monster
1992
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
5.2/1156
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machin...
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
1992
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
4.8/6
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to...
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
1955
It Came from Beneath the Sea
5.5/95
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coas...
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It Came from Beneath the Sea
1956
The Great Locomotive Chase
6/23
During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. Ho...
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The Great Locomotive Chase
1954
Down Three Dark Streets
5.6/22
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
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Down Three Dark Streets
1949
Twelve O'Clock High
7.1/142
In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deal...
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Twelve O'Clock High
1950
Right Cross
6.6/5
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
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Right Cross
1967
40 Guns to Apache Pass
4.9/18
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders...
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40 Guns to Apache Pass
1957
The Wings of Eagles
6.2/62
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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The Wings of Eagles
1984
Gremlins
7.118/6307
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mo...
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Gremlins
1983
Strange Invaders
4.9/71
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
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Strange Invaders
1976
W.C. Fields and Me
7.8/5
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields...
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W.C. Fields and Me
1956
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
6.308/60
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink ("King of the River") in a boat race to New Orleans. Later, Davy and Georgie...
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Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
1962
Stark Fear
5.1/14
A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humilia...
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Stark Fear
1974
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
6.4/118
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape...
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Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
1953
The Bigamist
6.4/90
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. J...
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The Bigamist
1986
Vincent Price's Dracula
7.9/7
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
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Vincent Price's Dracula
1956
The Steel Jungle
5.3/6
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
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The Steel Jungle
1949
Task Force
7/12
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the...
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Task Force
1957
The Vampire
6.2/32
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty...
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The Vampire
1955
Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
7/2
Davy and Georgie end a particularly successful season of trapping and hunting with the hopes of easy sales, only for such hopes to be dashed by the se...
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Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race
1955
Davy Crockett at the Alamo
6.5/4
The third of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him, Georgie and a riverboat gambler they meet searching for a new adventure, which leads them...
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Davy Crockett at the Alamo
1960
Seven Ways from Sundown
5.7/20
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
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Seven Ways from Sundown
1972
Rage
6.7/18
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable fo...
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Rage
1956
The Search for Bridey Murphy
6.3/5
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early lif...
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
1954
The Steel Cage
0/0
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
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The Steel Cage
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.47/2556
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1954
Ring of Fear
5/6
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
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Ring of Fear
1977
MacArthur
6.2/79
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by...
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MacArthur
1977
Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
0/0
During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.
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Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1972
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
3/1
A two-part episode of the original Lassie television series (that aired in 1971) made into a single TV-movie.
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Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
1950
The Flying Missile
5.4/5
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Flying Missile
1953
Fighter Attack
4.5/2
World War II film set in German occupied Italy. A US fighter pilot is shot down in enemy territory during a raid against a German supply depot. He rec...
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Fighter Attack
1994
Body Shot
3.6/7
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.
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Body Shot
1966
A Man Called Adam
6.3/10
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
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A Man Called Adam
1976
Baby Blue Marine
5.2/9
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Ma...
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Baby Blue Marine
1980
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
2/1
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach...
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1975
The Wild McCullochs
4/2
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
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The Wild McCullochs
1961
X-15
5.9/14
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
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X-15
1972
Ben
5.8/101
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
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Ben
1987
Innerspace
6.8/1233
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J...
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Innerspace
1974
Homebodies
6.6/14
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts...
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Homebodies
1955
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
6.405/105
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Croc...
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
1970
The Andersonville Trial
6.7/3
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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The Andersonville Trial
1955
Rage at Dawn
6.1/26
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A s...
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Rage at Dawn
1976
Gus
6/38
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard fie...
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Gus
1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home
6.769/13
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...
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
1949
Free For All
6/2
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Free For All
1980
Hero at Large
6.2/40
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a sup...
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Hero at Large
1948
Beyond Glory
7.3/3
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls f...
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Beyond Glory
1949
I Was a Male War Bride
6.9/132
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her...
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I Was a Male War Bride
1951
Rawhide
6.7/54
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
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Rawhide
1970
Breakout
0/0
A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally impris...
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Breakout
1980
Airplane!
7.291/4451
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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Airplane!
1950
The Gunfighter
7.2/181
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Gunfighter
1949
The Great Sinner
6.7/20
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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The Great Sinner
1989
Ghost Writer
4.2/10
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously,...
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Ghost Writer
1950
One Way Street
5.1/25
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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One Way Street
1984
The Lost Empire
4.8/56
A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can...
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The Lost Empire
1974
The Death Squad
7/3
When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals...
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The Death Squad
1950
My Friend Irma Goes West
6.1/16
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train a...
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My Friend Irma Goes West
1978
Goodbye, Franklin High
1.5/2
Comic melodrama following the day-to-day life of high school senior Will, a promising but naive athlete struggling with choices that could determine h...
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Goodbye, Franklin High
1973
Walking Tall
6.6/123
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Walking Tall
1950
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
6.7/38
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime bus...
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
Three Secrets
6.4/15
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted a...
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Three Secrets
1996
Hellraiser: Bloodline
5.3/516
Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.
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Hellraiser: Bloodline
1971
Terror in the Sky
6.8/6
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisoning and become incapacitated. Now it's up to one of the passengers to safely land...
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Terror in the Sky
1973
Coffee, Tea or Me?
0/0
An airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London.
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Coffee, Tea or Me?
1949
The File on Thelma Jordon
6.5/59
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her...
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The File on Thelma Jordon
1972
Fireball Forward
5/1
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
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Fireball Forward
1972
The Crooked Hearts
7.8/4
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-an...
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The Crooked Hearts
1973
The Alpha Caper
7/1
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
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The Alpha Caper
1972
The Candidate
6.5/152
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
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The Candidate
1978
Wild and Wooly
4/1
A Western adventure — a "Charlie's Angels" on horseback — involving three comely females who meet in a territorial prison, engineer a daring escape, a...
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