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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.151 |
| Birthday | 1909-10-25 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Whitner Nutting Bissell, Whitner Bissell, Whitt Bissell, Whit Bissel, |
1962
Birdman of Alcatraz
7.485/291
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
1960
The Time Machine
7.343/817
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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The Time Machine
1957
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
5.5/27
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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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1974
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
0/0
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1970
Airport
6.4/387
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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Airport
1954
It Should Happen to You
6.9/57
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 firs...
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It Should Happen to You
1954
Creature from the Black Lagoon
6.8/759
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 Cr...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
1950
Perfect Strangers
6.2/6
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 the...
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Perfect Strangers
1968
5 Card Stud
6.2/77
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
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5 Card Stud
1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.5/1069
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1954
Target Earth
5.6/24
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating...
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Target Earth
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7/334
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
1958
The Defiant Ones
7.155/264
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
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The Defiant Ones
1949
He Walked by Night
6.7/91
Roy Morgan aka Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allow...
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He Walked by Night
1964
Seven Days in May
7.247/190
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Seven Days in May
1963
Hud
7.3/307
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for...
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Hud
1973
Soylent Green
6.9/1259
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer i...
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Soylent Green
1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
6.1/27
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 polic...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1952
The Sellout
5.5/11
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
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The Sellout
1957
The Comedian
9/1
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...
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The Comedian
1952
Hoodlum Empire
6.1/11
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 ne...
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Hoodlum Empire
1962
Exercise No. One
0/0
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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Exercise No. One
1958
Monster on the Campus
6.125/48
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood...
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Monster on the Campus
1954
Riot in Cell Block 11
6.9/65
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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Riot in Cell Block 11
1947
Brute Force
7.272/184
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...
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Brute Force
1947
A Double Life
6.3/66
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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A Double Life
1955
Shack Out on 101
5.9/17
A greasy spoon diner provides a base for a spy smuggling nuclear secrets.
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Shack Out on 101
1959
Warlock
6.7/151
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 t...
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Warlock
1957
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
4.6/49
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.
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I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
Johnny Tremain
5.8/29
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 So...
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Johnny Tremain
1947
The Senator Was Indiscreet
5.4/5
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...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
1952
The Turning Point
6.2/28
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't unders...
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The Turning Point
1948
Canon City
6/14
Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.
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Canon City
1951
Lost Continent
3.4/33
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down...
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Lost Continent
1963
Spencer's Mountain
6.7/37
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 t...
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Spencer's Mountain
1944
Winged Victory
5.5/2
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...
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Winged Victory
1955
The Desperate Hours
7/157
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The Desperate Hours
1971
City Beneath the Sea
4.1/11
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. gover...
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City Beneath the Sea
1950
Side Street
6.6/35
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...
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Side Street
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
6.283/120
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 quic...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1959
No Name on the Bullet
6.6/73
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...
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No Name on the Bullet
1964
Where Love Has Gone
6.1/18
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
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Where Love Has Gone
1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
4.4/5
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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Once You Kiss a Stranger...
1962
Third of a Man
0/0
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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Third of a Man
1986
Horrible Horror
7/5
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Horrible Horror
1956
Man from Del Rio
6/21
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 aut...
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Man from Del Rio
1956
Dakota Incident
6.4/11
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
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Dakota Incident
1949
The Crime Doctor's Diary
5.7/2
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.
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The Crime Doctor's Diary
1950
Wyoming Mail
4.4/6
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...
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Wyoming Mail
1955
The Naked Street
6/20
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 Ros...
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The Naked Street
1977
The Lincoln Conspiracy
5.6/10
Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assa...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
1955
At Gunpoint
6.3/12
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
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At Gunpoint
1957
The Young Stranger
5.8/10
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...
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The Young Stranger
1954
The Atomic Kid
4.2/8
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...
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The Atomic Kid
1957
The Tall Stranger
6.6/17
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-b...
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The Tall Stranger
1951
Red Mountain
6.1/14
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 prospec...
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Red Mountain
1978
The Time Machine
4.7/7
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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The Time Machine
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7/3
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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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1953
Devil's Canyon
4.8/10
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
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Devil's Canyon
1948
Raw Deal
6.672/99
Joe Sullivan (O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed prison escape plan and other means intended to get rid...
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Raw Deal
1965
Fluffy
6.5/2
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.
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Fluffy
1978
Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
0/0
A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach Ca...
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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
1949
Anna Lucasta
4.3/3
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...
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Anna Lucasta
1949
Chicken Every Sunday
6/3
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
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Chicken Every Sunday
1954
The Shanghai Story
4.8/9
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 s...
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The Shanghai Story
1967
A Covenant with Death
5/11
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...
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A Covenant with Death
1951
The Family Secret
5.7/11
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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The Family Secret
1946
Somewhere in the Night
6.8/66
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder ca...
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Somewhere in the Night
1979
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
10/3
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 re...
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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1975
Nick and Nora
0/0
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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Nick and Nora
1964
Advance to the Rear
5/12
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...
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Advance to the Rear
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.8/19
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 exactl...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
1979
The Night Rider
3.5/2
"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...
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The Night Rider
1955
Trial
6.7/15
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 pr...
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Trial
1959
Never So Few
5.383/60
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
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Never So Few
1978
Casey's Shadow
6.4/10
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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Casey's Shadow
1948
That Lady in Ermine
5.8/15
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w...
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That Lady in Ermine
1960
The Magnificent Seven
7.511/1773
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
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The Magnificent Seven
1954
Three Hours to Kill
4.9/13
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...
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Three Hours to Kill
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
1954
The Caine Mutiny
7.2/329
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...
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The Caine Mutiny
1947
The Sea of Grass
6.2/26
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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The Sea of Grass
1951
The Red Badge of Courage
6.4/57
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 lea...
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The Red Badge of Courage
1959
The Black Orchid
6.2/26
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
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The Black Orchid
1940
The Sea Hawk
7.1/127
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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The Sea Hawk
1975
Psychic Killer
5.2/20
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transp...
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Psychic Killer
1958
Destination Nightmare
5.5/2
Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series The Veil (1958) - "Whatever Happened to Peggy," "Destination Nightmare," "The Return of Madame Verno...
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Destination Nightmare
1965
The Final Hour
0/0
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together.
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The Final Hour
1946
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
5.3/3
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 newspa...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1965
The Hallelujah Trail
6/80
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...
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The Hallelujah Trail
1951
Tales of Robin Hood
5/1
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 fe...
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Tales of Robin Hood
1952
Boots Malone
7.5/3
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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Boots Malone
1972
Pete 'n' Tillie
5.5/17
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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Pete 'n' Tillie
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
1972
The Salzburg Connection
5.7/12
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 pict...
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The Salzburg Connection
1962
The Manchurian Candidate
7.5/709
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,...
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The Manchurian Candidate
1993
Time Machine: The Journey Back
7/3
Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"
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Time Machine: The Journey Back
1955
Not as a Stranger
6.2/37
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...
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Not as a Stranger
1949
Tokyo Joe
6.1/36
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 an...
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Tokyo Joe
1977
Last of the Mohicans
6/1
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...
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Last of the Mohicans
1950
A Life of Her Own
5.2/17
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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A Life of Her Own
1950
Convicted
6.3/24
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Convicted
1953
A Tale of Two Cities
0/0
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
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A Tale of Two Cities
1948
Another Part of the Forest
7.6/11
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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Another Part of the Forest
1943
Holy Matrimony
6.7/12
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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Holy Matrimony
1971
In Broad Daylight
5.8/8
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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In Broad Daylight
1973
Cry Rape
6.7/3
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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Cry Rape
1971
A Tattered Web
5.7/6
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...
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A Tattered Web
1956
The Proud Ones
6.4/32
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 cattl...
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The Proud Ones
1957
The Wayward Girl
6/1
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
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The Wayward Girl
1972
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
7.8/8
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
1951
Sealed Cargo
6.4/22
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 fishing...
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Sealed Cargo
1946
Cluny Brown
7.1/83
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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Cluny Brown
1943
Destination Tokyo
6.713/61
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 adv...
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Destination Tokyo
1977
Flood!
4.9/13
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
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Flood!
1951
Night Into Morning
5.8/9
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
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Night Into Morning
1977
Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
3/1
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...
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Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
1960
Daniel Boone: And Chase the Buffalo
0/0
Boone yearns to return to Kentucky, to escape the tax collector, despite his wife’s wishes. With his family remaining home, he leads a small group of...
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