
Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan (August 29, 1912 – June 6, 1994) was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Born in New York City, Sullivan fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) stature and rugged good looks he could "make money" simply standing on a Broadway stage. This began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television.
One of Sullivan's most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad and the Beautiful opposite Kirk Douglas. Sullivan toured the US with Bette Davis in theatrical readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg and starred opposite her in the 1951 film Payment on Demand. In 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own and replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint. Unfortunately, Sullivan only lasted two episodes before the show was cancelled, and then resurrected five weeks later with Vincent Price once again playing the starring role.
Sullivan's first starring TV show was a syndicated adaptation of the radio series The Man Called X for Ziv Television in 1956-1957, as secret agent Ken Thurston, the role Herbert Marshall originally portrayed before the microphone. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the adventure/drama television series Harbormaster. He played a commercial ship's captain, David Scott, and Paul Burke played his partner, Jeff Kittridge, in five episodes of the series, which aired first on CBS and then ABC under the revised title Adventure at Scott Island.
In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the western television series The Tall Man (although the series ran for seventy-five half-hour episodes, the one in which Garrett kills Billy was never filmed). Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as John Chisum, but his scene was excised from the release print (though later restored to the film). He had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. In additional to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, which aired on NBC on Monday, alternating with Perry Como), during the 1966-1967 season. Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride.
Sullivan guest starred in many series, including The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Reporter, The Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, and McMillan and Wife. He starred in many Hallmark Hall of Fame specials including a highly acclaimed production of "The Price" opposite George C. Scott. Sullivan was consistently in demand for the entirety of his career. His acting career spanned romantic leading man roles to villains and finally to character roles. In his later years, Sullivan had roles in the films, Oh God with George Burns and Earthquake, where he shared scenes with Ava Gardner.
Sullivan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 1500 Vine St. for his work in television, and another at 6160 Hollywood Blvd. for motion pictures.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.788 |
Birthday | 1912-08-29 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Бэрри Салливан, Patrick Barry Sullivan, |

1974

Earthquake
6.111/328
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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Earthquake

1969

Shark
4.3/23
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested...
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Shark

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7.2/408
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1951

Mr. Imperium
5.3/9
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. Each will have their clandestine romance interfe...
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Mr. Imperium

1975

The Human Factor
5.7/20
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
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The Human Factor

1952

The Hoaxters
4.2/4
A 1952 American documentary film written by Herman Hoffman, about the threat posed by communism to the American way of life.
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The Hoaxters

1946

Suspense
6.3/19
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's...
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Suspense

1952

The Bad and the Beautiful
7.3/255
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful

1968

How to Steal the World
5/12
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world.
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How to Steal the World

1947

The Gangster
4.8/14
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakd...
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The Gangster

1954

Loophole
6.5/11
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fails to report a $49,000 shortage. Accused of theft,...
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Loophole

1949

Tension
6.8/49
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman,...
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Tension

1953

Cry of the Hunted
5.8/9
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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Cry of the Hunted

1964

Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
4.75/8
A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back...
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face

1955

Queen Bee
6.5/31
A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sist...
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Queen Bee

1937

Dime a Dance
3/1
June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first...
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Dime a Dance

1954

Playgirl
4.3/10
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career....
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Playgirl

1978

Caravans
5.6/16
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern...
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Caravans

1953

Jeopardy
6.6/39
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
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Jeopardy

1947

Framed
6.4/38
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous...
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Framed

1951

Cause for Alarm!
5.8/39
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Cause for Alarm!

1969

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
5.8/69
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive m...
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

1957

Forty Guns
6.5/123
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle...
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Forty Guns

1958

Another Time, Another Place
6.067/15
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fear...
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Another Time, Another Place

1955

Strategic Air Command
6.1/37
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.
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Strategic Air Command

1975

Take a Hard Ride
5.3/38
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, M...
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Take a Hard Ride

1962

Light in the Piazza
6.25/22
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Na...
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Light in the Piazza

1956

Julie
5.7/33
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
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Julie

1965

Planet of the Vampires
6.5/240
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strang...
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Planet of the Vampires

1969

The Arrangement
6.7/57
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
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The Arrangement

1951

The Unknown Man
4.8/13
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Unknown Man

1957

Dragoon Wells Massacre
6.889/9
A cavalry officer, the sole survivor of an Indian attack, and a wagon load of prisoners travel through hostile Indian country.
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Dragoon Wells Massacre

1949

The Great Gatsby
5.5/21
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th...
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The Great Gatsby

1951

No Questions Asked
6/16
With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the mobs...
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No Questions Asked

1954

The Miami Story
4.9/8
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to h...
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The Miami Story

1979

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
0/0
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1951

Payment on Demand
6.2/22
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up wi...
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Payment on Demand

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
5.8/4
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

1971

Yuma
5.9/16
A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman'...
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Yuma

1976

Violent Naples
6.5/45
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sulliv...
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Violent Naples

1980

Casino
0/0
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino sh...
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Casino

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

1944

Lady in the Dark
4.7/9
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
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Lady in the Dark

1949

Any Number Can Play
6.9/12
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...
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Any Number Can Play

1966

Intimacy
3.5/2
A money-strapped Los Angeles businessman hopes to solve his financial woes by blackmailing his wife's married lover.
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Intimacy

1963

A Gathering of Eagles
5.4/22
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect...
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A Gathering of Eagles

1973

Savage
5.6/8
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
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Savage

1964

Man in the Middle
6.4/19
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood....
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Man in the Middle

1948

Smart Woman
5.5/4
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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Smart Woman

1951

Three Guys Named Mike
5.7/15
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When...
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Three Guys Named Mike

1966

An American Dream
4.6/5
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Debor...
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An American Dream

1944

And Now Tomorrow
5.7/3
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
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And Now Tomorrow

1954

Her Twelve Men
5.2/4
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
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Her Twelve Men

1950

Nancy Goes to Rio
5.7/3
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
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Nancy Goes to Rio

1953

China Venture
7.5/2
American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
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China Venture

1952

Skirts Ahoy!
5/3
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small b...
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Skirts Ahoy!

1950

The Outriders
6.9/12
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raider...
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The Outriders

1976

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
0/0
U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head...
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

1966

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8/21
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1956

The Maverick Queen
5.292/12
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which,...
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The Maverick Queen

1945

Getting Gertie's Garter
3/1
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an...
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Getting Gertie's Garter

1968

Buckskin
5.313/8
A Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
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Buckskin

1955

Texas Lady
5.4/5
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. He...
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Texas Lady

1974

Hurricane
4.9/7
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
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Hurricane

1958

Wolf Larsen
0/0
A mean-spirited ship captain keeps his crew under his autocratic thumb while indulging his more refined side. But when his men rise up in mutiny, Lars...
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Wolf Larsen

1965

My Blood Runs Cold
4.5/2
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driv...
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My Blood Runs Cold

1977

Grand Jury
0/0
A man and his wife who are witnesses to a crime find themselves ensnared in a legal system that appears to be treating them as worse criminals than th...
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Grand Jury

1964

Stage to Thunder Rock
6/4
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
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Stage to Thunder Rock

1950

A Life of Her Own
5.3/18
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

1951

Inside Straight
4.2/3
A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
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Inside Straight

1949

Bad Men of Tombstone
6.3/3
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
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Bad Men of Tombstone

1969

This Savage Land
5.7/3
Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harrassed by Confederate marauders.
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This Savage Land

1973

Letters from Three Lovers
6/1
Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed.
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Letters from Three Lovers

1969

The Immortal
8/2
A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-million...
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The Immortal

1944

Rainbow Island
6/1
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the nati...
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Rainbow Island

1943

The Woman of the Town
6/3
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
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The Woman of the Town

1955

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
0/0
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial...
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1971

The Price
0/0
After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up going to college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate. H...
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The Price

1937

Dates and Nuts
0/0
Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced...
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Dates and Nuts

1977

Oh, God!
6.5/123
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Oh, God!

1970

House on Greenapple Road
6/3
A promiscuous housewife has been murdered and hardboiled detective Dan August has to find the motive...and the body.
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House on Greenapple Road

1959

The Purple Gang
6.3/3
The story of the infamous Purple Gang - a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920's Detroit.
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The Purple Gang

1951

Grounds for Marriage
4.3/3
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
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Grounds for Marriage

1971

Cannon
3.5/2
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
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Cannon

1978

The Bastard
5/3
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...
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The Bastard

1977

The Washington Affair
0/0
An unscrupulous businessman tries to win a government contract by playing up to the engineer assigned to review the project. He comes to the engineer'...
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The Washington Affair

1980

The Secret of Lost Valley
0/0
While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. Wh...
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The Secret of Lost Valley

1972

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
7/25
After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

1940

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
6.2/4
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

1972

Another Part of the Forest
0/0
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
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Another Part of the Forest

1978

The Immigrants
2/1
The rags-to-riches saga of a young Italian immigrant who battles his way out of the San Francisco earthquake to become a shipping magnate, rise to the...
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The Immigrants

1968

Stalked
4/1
In what could easily pass as a Twilight Zone episode, this film shows what happens when a troubled carnival owner returns back to his childhood home t...
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Stalked

1973

The Magician
8.2/4
Bill Bixby stars in this NBC pilot movie as a famous stage magician and escape artist who solves crimes.
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The Magician

1945

Duffy's Tavern
6.1/7
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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Duffy's Tavern

1958

Nightmare at Ground Zero
0/0
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
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Nightmare at Ground Zero

1969

It Takes All Kinds
0/0
After possibly killing a man in a brawl at a farewell party Tony Gunther, an American merchant seaman, is knocked out and wakes up in the apartment of...
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It Takes All Kinds

1965

Harlow
4.5/4
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this...
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Harlow

1969

Night Gallery
7.1/18
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by...
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Night Gallery

1977

No Room to Run
4/1
Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When...
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No Room to Run

1943

High Explosive
5.7/3
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca...
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High Explosive

1957

The Way to the Gold
0/0
Following his release from prison, an ex-con heads straight for a cache of gold buried somewhere in a small village.
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The Way to the Gold

1967

Johnny Belinda
0/0
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf and mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scanda...
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